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Lopez, Frederick, Lake, Wright
In many ecosystems worldwide, fire plays a critical role as a natural disturbance that influences landscape pattern and function. The effects of fire disturbances at landscape levels are central to many tribal cultures in North America, and tribes…
Type: Document
Year: 2019
Sondag, Moody, Mangan
Fitness is critical in keeping wildland firefighters (WLFFs) healthy and safe from injury. Unfortunately, little is known about the physical training (PT) programs of WLFFs. The purpose of this study was to understand motivators, barriers and…
Type: Document
Year: 2019
Moore
Purpose of Review: This review is on global wildland fire management research needs from the standpoint of 'integrated fire management'. It seeks to apply a characterisation of fires to frame research needs, and also recognise some differences in…
Type: Document
Year: 2019
Brown
The culture of the USDA Forest Service has been shaped by the maxim 'Certainly it can be done' (Pinchot 1947), borrowed from the Coast Guard by the agency's first Chief, Gifford Pinchot (1905-10). From the moment employees joined the Forest Service…
Type: Document
Year: 2019
Roos, Williamson, Bowman
Paleofire studies frequently discount the impact of human activities in past fire regimes. Globally, we know that a common pattern of anthropogenic burning regimes is to burn many small patches at high frequency, thereby generating landscape…
Type: Document
Year: 2019
Thompson, Wei, Calkin, O'Connor, Dunn, Anderson, Hogland
Purpose of Review: The objectives of this paper are to briefly review basic risk management and analytics concepts, describe their nexus in relation to wildfire response, demonstrate real-world application of analytics to support response decisions…
Type: Document
Year: 2019
Bramwell
This year, Smokey Bear turns 75. Think about that for a second-a public service announcement campaign just turned three-quarters of a century old! The Smokey program is the longest running public service announcement campaign in U.S. history and is…
Type: Document
Year: 2019
Christiansen
Like many of us at the Forest Service, I started my career in fire, and I have always relied on Smokey Bear. Fire prevention is part of our cultural DNA.
Type: Document
Year: 2019
Aslan, Dickson, Theobald, Samberg
Although the Sonoran Desert is considered a non-fire-adapted ecosystem, emergence of a novel fire regime is underway, driven by increasing strength and duration of drought as well as invasion of non-native annual plant communities. Increasingly…
Type: Document
Year: 2019
Aslan, Sandor, Souther
Arizona’s Sonoran Desert is home to unique species, sites of immense cultural and historical value, and more than 5 million people. This sensitive region is also threatened by a changing fire regime, spurred by climate change, long-term drought, and…
Type: Media
Year: 2019