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Kelp, Carroll, Liu, Yantosca, Hockenberry, Mickley
Smoke from wildfires presents one of the greatest threats to air quality, public health, and ecosystems in the United States, especially in the West. Here we quantify the efficacy of prescribed burning as an intervention for mitigating smoke…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
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
The All Hands All Lands burn team (AHAL) is a collaborative effort to accelerate the return of fire to the frequent-fire ecosystems in the Water Fund landscape. AHAL accomplishes this by providing support in all phases of prescribed burning, from…
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Cullen, Axe, Podschwit
National and regional preparedness level (PL) designations support decisions about wildfire risk management. Such decisions occur across the fire season and influence pre-positioning of resources in areas of greatest fire potential, recall of…
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
Schultz, Moseley, Amos, Bone, McCaffrey
Prescribed fire is an essential management tool for restoring and maintaining the resilience of fire-dependent ecosystems. Past studies indicated that the current policy environment significantly constrained decision-making around prescribed fire (…
Year: 2021
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