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Name: 1999 Fontainebleau Mississippi Wildfire study
Description: Nine plots were established in both the treated area and an adjacent untreated area. Data collected describe stand conditions and fire severity at each plot. The data were collected to assess the effect of repeated prescribed burn treatments on stand...
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Name: An Overview of the Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (MTBS) Project and Field-Based Burn Severity Assessment
Description: Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (MTBS) is a multi-year, interagency project designed to consistently map the location, extent and associated burn severity of large fires occurring on all lands of the United States from 1984 to present. The suite of...
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Name: Ecological Impacts of Mastication
Description: Dr. Mike Battaglia presented results from the Joint Fire Science Project on the Ecological Impact of Mastication, related to the impact of mastication on the chemical and physical conditions of the forest floor, vegetation regrowth, and fuel...
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Name: Fire, Carbon, and Climate: Past and Future
Description: Michael Ryan, a research ecologist with the Rocky Mountain Research Station, will present on webinar on May 3, 1 PM MDT on fire and the carbon cycle. Fire has a short-term impact on the exchange of carbon between the forest and the atmosphere, but...
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Name: Fire, Vegetation, and Birds in Northern Sedge Meadows - Lessons Learned At Seney NWR
Description: Our study of fire, vegetation, and birds at Seney NWR examines the impact of both spring and summer burns on areas that historically had abundant yellow rails. We hypothesized that summer burns would be more effective at setting back shrub cover, and...
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Name: Fuel Treatment Effectiveness on the 2011 Wallow Fire
Description: The Wallow Fire was discovered at 1330 on May 29, 2011 at a remote location on the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest in eastern Arizona. Initial response to the fire was immediate and aggressive. Extremely dry, windy conditions contributed to rapid...
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Name: Hydrologic Impacts of High Severity Wildfire
Description: Dan Neary, US Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, presented the webinar, Hydrologic Impacts of High Severity Wildfire, on January 18, 2012. Fires are increasing in size, frequency, and severity. Simultaneously, development continues in...
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Name: Impacts of Climate Change and Shifting Fire Regime on Boreal Post-Fire Successional Trajectory
Description: Fire acts as a catalyst and a driver of change. There is a very critical and sensitive post-fire window where fire severity strongly affects seedling recruitment patterns. Climate change could tip this sensitive transition and impact the dominate...
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Name: LANDFIRE National Alaska Webinar Series
Description: This two part webinar series focused on LANDFIRE National products that are currently available to Alaska. The scope and schedule of the LANDFIRE Refresh project will also be briefly discussed along with many other interesting topics. Part 1 of the...
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Name: Nenana Ridge Research Burn: Forest Floor Consumption
Description: Fuel moistures samples along with along with duff (forest floor) consumption measurements were collected before and after the Nenana Ridge Prescribed Research Burn. These results are important as forest floor biomass and moisture are key components of...
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