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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

Climate change vulnerability assessments in the National Park Service: An integrated review for infrastructure, natural resources, and cultural resources (revised)

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

Pivoting during the pandemic: how COVID-19 and the 2020 wildland fire year created a novel learning opportunity for USDA Forest Service wildland fire management

Flores, Fox, Iverson, Venette, Conley, Jahn, Howes, Haire
The USDA Forest Service anticipated that COVID-19 outbreaks among fire management personnel would potentially impact the agency’s ability to maintain the readiness of the wildland fire system and to respond to large complex wildfires across the…
Type: Document
Year: 2022

USDA Forest Service National Prescribed Fire Program Review (2022)

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: In the spring of 2022, wildfires caused by escaped prescribed fires compelled Chief Randy Moore of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service to call for a 90-day pause in the agency’s prescribed fire program pending a…
Type: Document
Year: 2022

Wildland Fire Metareview, 2007–2016

A 10-year review of accidents and incidents within the USDA Forest Service wildland fire system. This document seeks to describe the wildland fire system and culture within which U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service employees operate. To…
Type: Document
Year: 2022

Cultural Burning and Collaborative Fire Research and Management: Approaches for Respectfully Partnering with Tribes

Lake
As collaborative fire management projects between tribal and non-tribal entities are increasingly recognized for their potential to achieve both ecological and cultural fire management goals in a warming climate, it’s important that non-tribal…
Type: Media
Year: 2021

Improving Cross-boundary Wildfire Collaboration: Strategies to Address Barriers and Align Objectives

Yung, Miller, Gray, Wyborn
This webinar presents an overview of different structural and cultural aspects of wildland fire governance that promote and/or hinder collaboration across agencies and with non-agency partners. This type of collaboration is crucial to scaling-up…
Type: Media
Year: 2021

Outcome-based approaches for managing wildfire risk: institutional interactions and implementation within the 'gray zone'

Wollstein, Wardropper, Becker
In the United States, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) manages rangeland resources under dynamic conditions such as drought, annual grass invasion, and larger and more frequent wildfires. But federal policies governing rangelands are not…
Type: Document
Year: 2021

The wildland fire system and challenges for engineering

Finney
Recent wildland fire disasters have attracted interest from a variety of disciplines seeking to reduce impacts of fire on people and natural resources. Architecture, insurance and reinsurance, city and county government, and engineering sectors have…
Type: Document
Year: 2021

Integration of Fire Ecology and the Bioeconomy into Wildfire Management

Faivre, Amoako, Bird, Conedera
Sparking FireSmart Policies in the EU: The Importance of an Integrated Fire Management Approach - Nicolas Faivre, Policy Officer, DG Research and Innovation (RTD), European Commission, Belgium The presentation will introduce the recent EU policy…
Type: Media
Year: 2020