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The scientific value of fire in wilderness

Kreider, Jaffe, Berkey, Parks, Larson
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…
Type: Document
Year: 2023

Trends, impacts, and cost of catastrophic and frequent wildfires in the sagebrush biome

Crist, Belger, Davies, Davis, Meldrum, Shinneman, Remington, Welty, Mayer
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…
Type: Document
Year: 2023

Understanding the Black Summer bushfires through research: a summary of key findings from the Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC

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…
Type: Document
Year: 2023

Using a demographic model to project the long-term effects of fire management on tree biomass in Australian savannas

Murphy, Whitehead, Evans, Yates, Edwards, MacDermott, Lynch, Russell-Smith
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…
Type: Document
Year: 2023

Using culturally significant birds to guide the timing of prescribed fires in the Klamath Siskiyou bioregion

Long, Lake, Stephens, Alexander, Ralph, Wolfe
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…
Type: Document
Year: 2023

Wildfire and Climate Change Adaptation of Western North American Forests: A Case for Proactive Management

Prichard, Hagmann, Hessburg
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,…
Type: Media
Year: 2023

'Right-way' science: reflections on co-developing Indigenous and Western cross-cultural knowledge to support Indigenous cultural fire management

McKemey, Rangers, Costello, Hunter, Ens
Contemporary Indigenous cultural fire management facilitates opportunities for Indigenous peoples to connect to and manage their Country, as well as providing scope for research. Right-way science is defined as collaborative process of bringing…
Type: Document
Year: 2022

A century of drought in Hawaiʻi: geospatial analysis and synthesis across hydrological, ecological, and socioeconomic scales

Frazier, Giardina, Giambelluca, Brewington, Chen, Chu, Fortini, Hall, Helweg, Keener, Longman, Lucas, Mair, Oki, Reyes, Yelenik, Trauernicht
Drought is a prominent feature of Hawaiʻi’s climate. However, it has been over 30 years since the last comprehensive meteorological drought analysis, and recent drying trends have emphasized the need to better understand drought dynamics and multi-…
Type: Document
Year: 2022

Anticipating future extreme wildfires by predicting the probability of ignition and escape of initial attack in Catalunya

Catelo, Rodrígues, Ameztegui
In recent years, the EU has implemented several firefighting-related policies to battle and reduce the negative impacts of wildfires. However, the changing environment constantly surprises us with extreme events that cause massive losses for the…
Type: Document
Year: 2022

Beyond pre-Columbian burning: the impact of firewood collection on forest fuel loads

Markwith, Paudel
Government agencies in the United States (US) adopted a prescribed burning policy based in part on paleo-environmental evidence of pre-Columbian Native American burning regimes. However, biomass collection by Native Americans in the pre-Columbian…
Type: Document
Year: 2022