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Forage Kochia Helps Fight Range Fires

Society for Range Management (Rangelands). This registry entry connects 11 plant records to 11 normalized source rows. It is primary fire evidence whose independent lineage can affect a fire classification. Evidence kind: expert-curated; lineage: greenstrip-tree.

Publisher
Society for Range Management (Rangelands)
Region
Great Basin / Intermountain West
Evidence kind
Expert-curated
Linked plants
11
Normalized rows
11
Fire-evidence rows
11

Table 1 contains 11 rows for species frequently used in greenstrips; its dual-species crested-wheatgrass row yields 12 taxon identities. Listed = recommend only within the recorded semiarid greenstrip placement. Eleven identities fit the current schema; the western-yarrow subspecies is held out because subspecies rank is unavailable.

Tier 1 expert synthesis based on reviewed reports, field observations, and telephone interviews. The source explicitly says published peer-reviewed fire-suppression findings were unavailable and asks for more quantitative research. Its controlled-burn and wildfire figures are specific to forage kochia; companion Table 1 species are not recast as individually tested. Same greenstrip-tree lineage as the underlying BLM, USFS, UNR, and NRCS work.

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Linked plant records (11)

Each row names the evidence channel this source supports. Range, status, hardiness, and fire-ecology context remain separate from fire classification.

PlantSource use
AlfalfaMedicago sativa fire evidence · 1
Asian beardless wildryeLeymus multicaulis fire evidence · 1
Blue flaxLinum perenne fire evidence · 1
Bluebunch WheatgrassAgropyron spicatum fire evidence · 1
Crested WheatgrassAgropyron cristatum fire evidence · 1
Crested WheatgrassAgropyron desertorum fire evidence · 1
Forage KochiaKochia prostrata fire evidence · 1
Sandberg BluegrassPoa secunda fire evidence · 1
Siberian WheatgrassAgropyron fragile fire evidence · 1
Small BurnetSanguisorba minor fire evidence · 1
Squirreltail GrassElymus elymoides fire evidence · 1

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