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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
Walsh, Sargent, Cevik-Compiegne, Roberts, Palfrey, Gooyers-Bourke, Vardoulakis, Laachir
The “Black Summer” bushfires of 2019/2020 in Australia generated smoke that persisted for over three months, mainly affecting Eastern Australia. Most communication strategies focused on the fire itself, revealing a knowledge gap in effective…
Type: Document
Year: 2022
[from the text] California is facing an unprecedented and growing forest and wildfire crisis. Decades of fire exclusion, coupled with the increasing impacts of climate change, have dramatically increased wildfires’ size and intensity throughout the…
Type: Document
Year: 2022
Christianson, Sutherland, Moola, Bautista, Young, MacDonald
Purpose of Review: Indigenous perspectives have often been overlooked in fire management in North America. With a focus on the boreal region of North America, this paper provides a review of the existing literature documenting Indigenous voices and…
Type: Document
Year: 2022
Miebach, Power, Resag, Netzel, Colombaroli, Litt
Throughout the Mediterranean biome, fire has been a dominant natural agent of change and an important tool for anthropogenic landscape modifications for millennia. However, fundamental knowledge on the complex linkages among fire, vegetation, and…
Type: Document
Year: 2022
Robbins
In her talk "Climate Change and Native Knowledge," Margo Robbins shares her experience bringing Traditional Ecological Knowledge into practice as her and her networks rekindle an age-old relationship with fire. She discusses how using smaller,…
Type: Media
Year: 2022
Climate changes are affecting virtually all National Park Service units and resources, and an assessment of climate vulnerabilities is important for developing proactive management plans to respond appropriately to these changes and threats.…
Type: Document
Year: 2022
Hagmann, Hessburg, Salter, Merschel, Reilly
In fire-dependent forest landscapes, frequent low- to moderate-severity fire maintained vegetation patterns that limited the severity of droughts, wildfires, and insect and pathogen activity. More than a century of fire exclusion, in combination…
Type: Document
Year: 2022
Chavardes, Danneyrolles, Portier, Girardin, Gaboriau, Gauthier, Drobyshev, Cyr, Wallenius, Bergeron
Warning: This article contains terms, descriptions, and opinions used for historical context that may be culturally sensitive for some readers.
Background: Understanding drivers of boreal forest dynamics supports adaptation strategies in the context…
Type: Document
Year: 2022
Kreye, Kreye, Regmi
Fire is an important process that shapes the structure and composition of many North American forest ecosystems. In the absence of fire, fire-dependent tree species can be gradually replaced by fire-sensitive species. There is an increasing interest…
Type: Document
Year: 2022