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Jones, Vraga, Hessburg, Hurteau, Allen, Keane, Spies, North, Collins, Finney, Lydersen, Westerling
Recent intense fire seasons in Australia, Borneo, South America, Africa, Siberia, and western North America have displaced large numbers of people, burned tens of millions of hectares, and generated societal urgency to address the wildfire problem (…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
McCaffrey
Fire management in the United States is currently facing numerous challenges. While many of these challenges involve questions about how to increase pace and scale of fuels treatments and adapt to longer, sometimes year-round, fire seasons and more…
Year: 2022
Type: Media
McCaffrey, Rappold, Hano, Navarro, Phillips, Prestemon, Vaidyanathan, Abt, Reid, Sacks
At a fundamental level, smoke from wildland fire is of scientific concern because of its potential adverse effects on human health and social well-being. Although many impacts (e.g., evacuations, property loss) occur primarily in proximity to the…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
McClain, Ruffner, Ebinger, Spyreas
We conducted literature searches of records from Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, North Dakota, Ohio, and Wisconsin to create a source bibliography of wildland fire descriptions occurring between 1673 and 1905. A total of 795 landscape…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Greiner, Schultz, Kooistra
US fire scientists are developing Potential Wildfire Operational Delineations, also known as ‘PODs’, as a pre-fire season planning tool to promote safe and effective wildland fire response, strengthen risk management approaches in fire management…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Zouhar
Historical fire regimes in plains grassland and prairie ecosystems of central North America are characterized by frequent fires with return intervals ranging from 1 to 35 years. Frequent fires removed accumulated litter, stimulated native grass…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Arizpe, Falk, Woodhouse, Swetnam
The climate of the south-western United States and northern Mexico borderlands is marked by a bimodal precipitation regime with the majority of moisture arriving during the cool season via Pacific frontal storm systems, and intense convective storms…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Caggiano
This will be the first in our new series to feature “Science in Management Spotlight,” the goal of which is to highlight active use of science in a management setting. Let us know if you have other examples!
A presentation on Potential Operational…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Parks, Abatzoglou
Increases in burned area across the western US since the mid‐1980’s have been widely documented and linked partially to climate factors, yet evaluations of trends in fire severity are lacking. Here, we evaluate fire severity trends and their…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Weber, Yadav
Wildfire regimes are changing across the globe with several ecosystems witnessing more frequent fires across longer fire seasons. The western United States is one such region. The NASA RECOVER Historic Fires Database (HFD) contains all documented…
Year: 2020
Type: Document