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Name: 'People and Forests': how they fit together
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Resource Group: Document
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Name: 'Pyrogeography' Across Western North America: How climate Has Affected Fire Regimes and Fire History Across the West, and Where We May Be Going the Future
Description: Peter Brown, Director of Rocky Mountain Tree Ring Research, will present a webinar on September 27, 1 PM MDT. A recent surge of scientific knowledge and interest in fire climatology derives from two factors: increasing understanding of broad-scale...
Resource Group: Data
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Name: 'What do we do now, Ollie?'
Description: A personal overview of why California is suffering billion-dollar-per-year costs and losses from wildland fire is presented. Two primary and ten supplemental factors contribute to the huge losses. The primary factors are lack of planning effectiveness...
Resource Group: Document
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Name: 2003 seasonal consensus climate forecast for wildland fire management
Description: On February 25, 2003, climate experts from the International Research Institute for Climate Prediction (IRI), the Scripps Institution of Oceanography Experimental Climate Prediction Center (ECPC), the NOAA/NCEP/NWS Climate Prediction Center (CPC), the...
Resource Group: Document
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Name: 2nd Fire Behavior and Fuels Conference: Fire Behavior Fundamentals and Applications
Description: The 2nd Fire Behavior and Fuels Conference will be held from March 26-30, 2007 in Destin, Florida. It will focus on the fire environment - the 'fire environment' consists of fire weather, fire behavior, fire danger rating, predictive services, fuels,...
Resource Group: Project
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Name: 2nd International Wildland Fire Ecology and Fire Management Congress
Description: This conference was held in conjunction with the Fifth Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology, November 16-20, 2003 in Orlando, Florida. Land management agencies and organizations and private landholders are increasingly faced with the complex...
Resource Group: Project
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Name: 3rd International Fire Ecology and Fire Management Congress
Description: This conference was held November 13-17, 2006, in San Diego, California. It focused on the science and technology that are the basis for the management of wildland fire. The plenary session addressed the context and consequences of changing fire...
Resource Group: Project
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Name: 60,000 disaster victims speak: part I: an empirical review of the empirical literature, 1981-2001
Description: Results for 160 samples of disaster victims were coded as to sample type, disaster type, disaster location, outcomes and risk factors observed, and overall severity of impairment. In order of frequency, outcomes included specific psychological...
Resource Group: Document
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Name: A 14,000 year sedimentary charcoal record of fire from the northern Sierra Nevada, Lake Tahoe Basin, California, USA
Description: This research examines how the controls of fire episode frequency in the northern Sierra Nevada have varied at different temporal scales through the Holocene. A 5.5 m long sediment core was collected from Lily Pond, a ~2.5 ha lake in the General Creek...
Resource Group: Document
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Name: A carbon budget for forests of the conterminous United States
Description: The potential need for national-level comparisons of greenhouse gas emissions, and the desirability of understanding terrestrial sources and sinks of carbon, has prompted interest in quantifying national forest carbon budgets. In this study, we link a...
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