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Simulating future residential property losses from wildfire in Flathead County, Montana
Wildfire damages to private residences in the United States and elsewhere have increased as a result of expansion of the wildland-urban interface (WUI) and other factors. Understanding this unwelcome trend requires analytical frameworks that simulate how various interacting social, economic, and biophysical factors influence those damages. A methodological framework is developed for simulating exp
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Tony Prato, Travis B Paveglio, Yan Barnett, Robin Silverstein, Michael Hardy, Robert Keane, Rachel A. Loehman, Anthony Clark, Daniel B. Fagre, Tyron Venn, Keith Stockmann
Shovelnose Sturgeon: Scaphirhynchus platorynchus (Rafinesque, 1820)
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Mark L. Wildhaber
Pallid Sturgeon: Scaphirhynchus albus (Forbes and Richardson 1905)
No abstract available.
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Mark L. Wildhaber
Sicklefin Chub: Macrhybopsis meeki (Jordan and Evermann 1896)
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Janice L. Albers
Loess records
Loess is aeolian sediment, dominated by silt-sized particles, that is identifiable in the field as a distinct sedimentary body. It covers a significant portion of the land surface of the Earth and as such constitutes one of the most important archives of long-term dust deposition. Large tracts of loess cover Europe, Asia, South America, and North America, and smaller loess bodies are found coverin
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Daniel R. Muhs, Stephen R. Cattle, Onn Crouvi, Denis-Didier Rousseau, Jiimin Sun, Marcelo A. Zárate
Home range and movements of North American tortoises
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Joan E. Berish, Phil A. Medica
Groundwater Dating with Atmospheric Halogenated Compounds
"Atmospheric environmental releases refer to the emission of stable, long-lived compounds of solely anthropogenic origin into the atmosphere and the use of the compounds to estimate dates of their incorporation into groundwater."
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Karl B. Haase, Eurybiades Busenberg
The impact of climate change on coastal ecosystems
In this chapter we stress two important features of coasts and coastal ecosystems. First, these are dynamic systems which continually undergo adjustments, especially through erosion and re-deposition, in response to a range of processes. Many coastal ecosystems adjust naturally at a range of time scales and their potential for response is examined partly by reconstructing how such systems have cop
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Colin D. Woodroffe, Robert J. Nicholls, Virginia Burkett, Donald L. Forbes
Intraplate seismic hazard: evidence for distributed strain and implications for seismic hazard
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Susan E. Hough
Evaluating a slope-stability model for shallow rain-induced landslides using gage and satellite data
Improving prediction of landslide early warning systems requires accurate estimation of the conditions that trigger slope failures. This study tested a slope-stability model for shallow rainfall-induced landslides by utilizing rainfall information from gauge and satellite records. We used the TRIGRS model (Transient Rainfall Infiltration and Grid-based Regional Slope-stability analysis) for simula
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S. Yatheendradas, D. Kirschbaum, Rex L. Baum, Jonathan W. Godt
Neotectonics and geomorphic evolution of the northwestern arm of the Yellowstone Tectonic Parabola: Controls on intra-cratonic extensional regimes, southwest Montana
The catastrophic Hebgen Lake earthquake of 18 August 1959 (MW 7.3) led many geoscientists to develop new methods to better understand active tectonics in extensional tectonic regimes that address seismic hazards. The Madison Range fault system and adjacent Hebgen Lake–Red Canyon fault system provide an intermountain active tectonic analog for regional analyses of extensional crustal deformation. T
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Chester A. Ruleman, Mort Larsen, Michael C. Stickney