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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
Evans, Maxwell
The SWFSC offers a webinar reviewing wildfires of 2022 and looking ahead toward fire conditions for the 2023 season. Dr. Zander Evans presents an overview of the 10 largest fires in the Southwest during 2022. He will share summaries of forest types…
Year: 2023
Type: Media
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
Elhami-Khorasani
Destructive wildfires are now a real threat in regions across the country and beyond what was once considered as the fire season, examples of which are the 2016 Gatlinburg Fire in the Southeast and the 2021 Marshall Fire in late December. Existing…
Year: 2022
Type: Media
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
Ramírez
This seminar is part of the USFS Missoula Fire Lab Seminar Series.
Technosyva is a company of 50 professionals based in San Diego and in Leon, Spain. Since 1997 we focused on developing technology and applications for the wildland fire community,…
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Ager, Evers, Day, Alcasena, Houtman
Recent fire seasons brought a new fire reality to the western US, and motivated federal agencies to explore scenarios for augmenting current fuel management and forest restoration in areas where fires might threaten critical resources and developed…
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