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Adapting western North American forests to climate change and wildfires: ten common questions

Prichard, Hessburg, Hagmann, Povak, Dobrowski, Hurteau, Kane, Keane, Kobziar, Kolden, North, Parks, Safford, Stevens, Yocom, Churchill, Gray, Huffman, Lake, Khatri-Chhetri
We review science-based adaptation strategies for western North American (wNA) forests that include restoring active fire regimes and fostering resilient structure and composition of forested landscapes. As part of the review, we address common…
Type: Document
Year: 2021

Adapting western North American forests to climate change and wildfires: ten common questions - research brief

Prichard
Rapid climate change is bringing warmer, drier, and longer wildfire seasons to western North America, and wildfires have been increasing in severity and area-burned in recent decades. Through years of record-setting wildfires, the key ingredients to…
Type: Document
Year: 2021

Characterization of dissolved organic matter from wildfire-induced Microcystis aeruginosa blooms controlled by copper sulfate as disinfection byproduct precursors using APPI(-) and ESI(-) FT-ICR MS

Chen, Tsai, Liu, Tolić, Burton, Chu, Karanfil, Chow
Copper-based algaecides are usually used for controlling algae bloom triggered by the elevated levels of nutrients after wildfires, resulting in the promoted reactivity of dissolved organic matter (DOM) in forming disinfectant byproducts (DBPs). To…
Type: Document
Year: 2021

Collaborative Fire Management Case Studies from the Colville National Forest

Wynecoop
This webinar will provide examples of successful cross-cultural partnerships for managing fire and building community resilience in a changing climate. In this webinar, USFS fire ecologist and tribal liaison Monique Wynecoop will share two case…
Type: Media
Year: 2021

Conceptualizing Indigenous Cultural Ecosystem Services (ICES) and benefits under changing climate conditions in the Klamath River Basin and their implications for land management and governance

Mucioki, Sowerwine, Sarna-Wojcicki, Lake, Bourque
In the Klamath River Basin (KRB) of northern California and southern Oregon, climate-related changes, such as more intense droughts, varied and concentrated precipitation, earlier spring and later fall conditions, extreme temperatures, and decreased…
Type: Document
Year: 2021

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

Human mobility to parks under the COVID-19 pandemic and wildfire seasons in the western and central United States

Yang, Yang, Yang, Xu, He, Aragón, Qiu
In 2020, people's health suffered a great crisis under the dual effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and the extensive, severe wildfires in the western and central United States. Parks, including city, national, and cultural parks, offer a unique…
Type: Document
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

Monetising the savings of remotely sensed data and information in Burn Area Emergency Response (BAER) wildfire assessment

Bernknopf, Kuwayama, Gibson, Blakely, Mabee, Clifford, Quayle, Epting, Hardy, Goodrich
We used a value of information approach to demonstrate the cost-effectiveness of using satellite imagery as part of the Burn Area Emergency Response (BAER), a US federal program that identifies imminent post-wildfire threats to human life and safety…
Type: Document
Year: 2021

Patterns of wildfire risk in the United States from systematic operational risk assessments: how risk is characterised by land managers

Noonan, Seielstad
Risk management is a significant part of federal wildland fire management in the USA because policy encourages the use of fire to maintain and restore ecosystems while protecting life and property. In this study, patterns of wildfire risk were…
Type: Document
Year: 2021