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Keepers of the Flame: Education and Collaboration in Cultural Burning

Middleton, Adams, Martinez
The Keepers of the Flame project aims to connect students, community-members, researchers, policymakers and Indigenous fire practitioners to learn about cultural burning and discuss ways to support its revitalization. The project uses a community-…
Type: Media
Year: 2021

Land management objectives and activities in the face of projected fire regime change in the Sonoran desert

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

Mitigating postfire runoff and erosion in the southwest using hillslope and channel treatments

Grover
Wildfires in the southwestern US are getting larger, more frequent, and more severe due to changing climatic conditions like rising temperatures and prolonged drought (Singleton et al. 2018, Mueller et al. 2020). Catastrophic wildfire events…
Type: Document
Year: 2021

Native American Fire Management at an Ancient Wildland-Urban Interface

Roos, Toya, Galvan
As residential development continues into flammable landscapes, wildfires increasingly threaten homes, lives, and livelihoods in the wildland–urban interface (WUI). Although this problem seems distinctly modern, Native American communities have…
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 Australian bushfire disaster: how to avoid repeating this catastrophe for biodiversity

Celermajer, Lyster, Wardle, Walmsley, Couzens
Bushfires in Australia in the “Black Summer” of 2019–2020 shocked the world. Research is allowing us to begin to appreciate the scale of the catastrophe for humans, other animals, and the environment. If we are to anticipate, mitigate, and prevent…
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

A shared perspective on managing Amazonian sustainable-use reserves in an era of megafires

Spínola, Soares da Silva, Assis da Silva, Barlow, Ferreira
1) Unprecedented forest fires are affecting large swathes of what were once fire‐free Amazonian forests, including extensive areas of community‐managed reserves. This shared overview of experiences of practitioners and researchers examines ways in…
Type: Document
Year: 2020

Aboriginal Women and Cultural Burning in NSW Australia

Cavanagh
During the summer of 2019/20 Australia suffered unprecedented wildfires. In these fires 33 people died, and another 450 people were killed from the effects of smoke from the fires. The fires burnt across 10 million hectares,…
Type: Media
Year: 2020

Indigenous elders' experiences, vulnerabilities and coping during hazard evacuation: the case of the 2011 Sandy Lake First Nation Wildfire evacuation

Asfaw, McGee, Christianson
Using a qualitative community-based research approach, this study employed in-depth interviews and a focus group discussion to examine Indigenous Elders’ experiences, vulnerabilities and coping during the 2011 wildfire evacuation of Sandy Lake First…
Type: Document
Year: 2020