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Klimaszewski-Patterson, Dingemans, Morgan, Mensing
Background: Understanding pre-1850s fire history and its effect on forest structure can provide insights useful for fire managers in developing plans to moderate fire hazards in the face of forecasted climate change. While climate clearly plays a…
Type: Document
Year: 2024
Haring
The Santa Clara Canyon in northern New Mexico suffered near total scorching during the Las Conchas Wildfire, a burn which drastically changed the environment and sediment stability of the canyon. After the fire, a 1% chance rain event exhibited a…
Type: Media
Year: 2024
Ortega-Becerril, Suarez, Vázquez-Tarrío, Garrote, Gomez-Heras
The 2021 Navalacruz wildfire occurred in a mountainous area in the Sistema Central (Spain). Despite having an average low severity index (dNBR), the loss of vegetation cover associated with the fire was responsible for a high rate of sedimentation…
Type: Document
Year: 2024
Warren, Sherman, Zeidler
This report represents the final deliverable for the project entitled Assessment of Livestock Grazing Impacts on Cultural Resources and Fuels at Mākua Military Reservation, carried out by the Center for Environmental Management of Military Lands (…
Type: Document
Year: 2007
Barker, Biondi, Gregory, Livingston, Mensing
The objective of the proposed project is to develop a methodology for reconstructing the long-term history of fire frequency and effects on the sage-grass landscapes in the Great Basin, a landscape type for which few studies are available but which…
Type: Project
Year: 2007
Barker, Gregory, Livingston, Mensing, Biondi
Currently most fire histories for time before the historic period and constructed from fire-scarred trees. But there are few tree-ring studies for most of the interior Great Basin and tree-scar records cannot be obtained for shrub-grass vegetation…
Type: Document
Year: 2007
Carcaillet, Bergman, Delorme, Hornberg, Zackrisson
Knowledge of past fire regimes is crucial for understanding the changes in fire frequency that are likely to occur during the coming decades as a result of global warming and land-use change. This is a key issue for the sustainable management of…
Type: Document
Year: 2007
Carcaillet, Bergman, Delorme, Hornberg, Zackrisson
Knowledge of past fire regimes is crucial for understanding the changes in fire frequency that are likely to occur during the coming decades as a result of global warming and land-use change. This is a key issue for the sustainable management of…
Type: Document
Year: 2007
Gassaway
The inability to distinguish between human-caused and lightning ignitions in fire-history studies has led to three major problems: 1) a basic assumption that all pre-Euro-American settlement fire regimes are ''natural'' unless findings are aberrant…
Type: Document
Year: 2007
Black, Mooney, Haberle
It is widely believed that Australian Aborigines utilized fire to manage many landscapes; however, to what extent this use of fire impacted on Australia's ecosystems remains uncertain. The late Pleistocene/ Holocene fire history from three sites…
Type: Document
Year: 2007