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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
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
Twidwell, Bielski, Scholtz, Fuhlendorf
Fire ecology has a long history of empirical investigation in rangelands. However, the science is inconclusive and incomplete, sparking increasing interest on how to advance the discipline. Here, we introduce a new framework for qualitatively and…
Type: Document
Year: 2021
Day, Houtman, Belavenutti, Ringo, Ager, Bassett
The New Mexico Shared Stewardship Agreement created a framework to allow for the State of New Mexico and the USDA Forest Service to collaboratively identify mutual restoration goals to respond to the increasing suite of challenges facing the…
Type: Document
Year: 2021
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
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
Russell, Martinez, Hatch
This webinar considers the Reserved Treaty Rights Lands (RTRL) program and how it has been used to implement collaborative fuel management projects on National Forest lands. RTRL is a funding program administered by the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA…
Type: Media
Year: 2021
Russell, Champ, Flores, Martinez, Hatch, Morgan, Clarke
The intent of this article is to raise awareness about an underutilized funding mechanism that possesses the capacity to help tribal and federal land management agencies meet their goal of restoring fire-adapted ecosystems to historic conditions in…
Type: Document
Year: 2021
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
Aslan, Souther, Stortz, Sample, Sandor, Levine, Samberg, Gray, Dickson
As a multi-jurisdictional, non-fire-adapted region, the Sonoran Desert Ecoregion is a complex, social-ecological system faced increasingly with no-analogue conditions. A diversity of management objectives and activities form the socioecological…
Type: Document
Year: 2021