Climate change and wildfires pose an existential threat to western North American forests, a reality which necessitates place-based strategies to increase their resilience – if forests are to be widely conserved. EuroAmerican colonization, development...
Fire and Cultural Resources
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Person: Prichard, Hagmann, Hessburg
Created Year: 2023
Type: Media
Historically, wildfire and tribal burning practices played important roles in shaping ecosystems throughout the Klamath Siskiyou Bioregion of northern California and southern Oregon. Over the past several decades, there has been increased interest in...
Person: Long, Lake, Stephens, Alexander, Ralph, Wolfe
Created Year: 2023
Type: Document
Tropical savannas are characterized by high primary productivity and high fire frequency, such that much of the carbon captured by vegetation is rapidly returned to the atmosphere. Hence, there have been suggestions that management-driven reductions in...
Person: Murphy, Whitehead, Evans, Yates, Edwards, MacDermott, Lynch, Russell-Smith
Created Year: 2023
Type: Document
The report – Understanding the Black Summer bushfires through research: a summary of key findings from the Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC – presents findings from 23 projects within four research themes, covering different issues and knowledge gaps...
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Created Year: 2023
Type: Document
Fire regimes in sagebrush (Artemisia spp.) ecosystems have been greatly altered across the western United States. Broad-scale invasion of non-native annual grasses, climate change, and human activities have accelerated wildfire cycles, increased fire...
Person: Crist, Belger, Davies, Davis, Meldrum, Shinneman, Remington, Welty, Mayer
Created Year: 2023
Type: Document
Background: Wilderness areas are important natural laboratories for scientists and managers working to understand fire. In the last half-century, shifts in the culture and policy of land management agencies have facilitated the management practice of...
Person: Kreider, Jaffe, Berkey, Parks, Larson
Created Year: 2023
Type: Document
Background: Historically, reburn dynamics from cultural and lightning ignitions were central to the ecology of fire in the western United States (wUS), whereby past fire effects limited future fire growth and severity. Over millennia, reburns created...
Person: Prichard, Salter, Hessburg, Povak, Gray
Created Year: 2023
Type: Document
The longleaf pine (Pinus palustris Mill.) and related ecosystem is an icon of the southeastern United States (US). Once covering an estimated 37 million ha from Texas to Florida to Virginia, the near-extirpation of, and subsequent restoration efforts...
Person: Harley, Therrell, Maxwell, Bhuta, Bregy, Heeter, Patterson, Rochner, Rother, Stambaugh, Zampieri, Altman, Collins-Key, Gentry, Guiterman, Huffman, Johnson, King, Larson, Leland, Nguyen, Pederson, Puhlick, Rao, Catón, Sakulich, Singh, Tucker, van de Gevel, Kaiser, Ahmad
Created Year: 2023
Type: Document
Indigenous land stewardship and mixed-severity fire regimes both promote landscape heterogeneity, and the relationship between them is an emerging area of research. In our study, we reconstructed the historical fire regime of Ne Sextsine, a 5900-ha dry...
Person: Copes-Gerbitz, Daniels, Hagerman
Created Year: 2023
Type: Document
Background: Rural and semi-rural areas are complex and dynamic social-ecological systems, many of which have experienced profound impacts from wildland fires, particularly this decade. Under uncertain climate change conditions, these areas require new...
Person: Uyttewaal, Prat-Guitart, Ludwig, Kroeze, Langer
Created Year: 2023
Type: Document