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Greenstrips: Another Tool to Manage Wildfire (Fact Sheet 97-36)

University of Nevada Cooperative Extension. This registry entry connects 14 plant records to 14 normalized source rows. It is primary fire evidence whose independent lineage can affect a fire classification. Evidence kind: expert-curated; lineage: greenstrip-tree.

Publisher
University of Nevada Cooperative Extension
Region
Northern Nevada / Great Basin
Evidence kind
Expert-curated
Linked plants
14
Normalized rows
14
Fire-evidence rows
14

Table 1 names 15 common perennial plants used in greenstrips and gives characteristics important to establishment and use. Listed = recommend only within the recorded northern Nevada greenstrip placement. Fourteen rows fit the current taxon-rank schema; Poa canbyi is held out because its exact GBIF match resolves to a subspecies rank the schema cannot represent.

Tier 1 extension curation with stated selection requirements: adaptation, establishment amid annual weeds, separated growth, low mature height, low fuel production, long green period, post-burn survival, and grazing tolerance. The note says greenstrips should be grazed or mown frequently enough to reduce fuel buildup. Same greenstrip-tree lineage as BLM, NRCS, and the cited 1986 University of Nevada fact sheet.

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Linked plant records (14)

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

PlantSource use
Big bluegrassPoa ampla fire evidence · 1
Common yarrowAchillea millefolium fire evidence · 1
Crested WheatgrassAgropyron cristatum fire evidence · 1
Crested WheatgrassAgropyron desertorum fire evidence · 1
Forage KochiaKochia prostrata fire evidence · 1
Four-wing SaltbushAtriplex canescens fire evidence · 1
Palmer PenstemonPenstemon palmeri fire evidence · 1
Russian WildryePsathrostachys juncea fire evidence · 1
Sheep FescueFestuca ovina fire evidence · 1
Siberian WheatgrassAgropyron fragile fire evidence · 1
Small BurnetSanguisorba minor fire evidence · 1
Thickspike WheatgrassElymus lanceolatus fire evidence · 1
Western WheatgrassAgropyron smithii fire evidence · 1
Wild Blue FlaxLinum lewisii fire evidence · 1

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