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Price, Nolan, Samson
Accurate estimation of emissions from biomass burning and their impact on carbon storage requires pre and post-fire plot measurement of fuel consumption across a range of forest types and fire severities, and this information is currently far from…
Type: Document
Year: 2022
Increase in infected corneal ulcerations in dogs during the northern Colorado’s 2020 wildfire season
Objective
In the fall of 2020, Colorado experienced the two largest wildfires in state history. The smoke blanketed the college town of Fort Collins, Colorado, the location of the Veterinary Teaching Hospital at Colorado State University (CSU-VTH).…
Type: Document
Year: 2022
Rodrigues, Lullfitz, Coyne, Dean, Eades, Flowers, Pettersen, Woods, Hopper
Protection of biodiversity, human assets, and cultural heritage pose significant challenges to contemporary planning of bushfire mitigation activities. Current mitigation approaches are not always appropriate, and mismanagement is a source of…
Type: Document
Year: 2022
Connor, Tripp, Tripp, Saxon, Camarena, Donahue, Sarna-Wojcicki, Macaulay, Bean, Hanbury-Brown, Brashares
After a century of fire suppression and accumulating fuel loads in North American forests, prescribed burns are increasingly used to prevent conditions leading to catastrophic megafire. There is widespread evidence that prescribed fire was used by…
Type: Document
Year: 2022
Halpern, Sousa, Lake, Carlson, Paddock, Tripp
Prescribed fire is used extensively as a management tool in fire-adapted landscapes of the American West to maintain ecosystem structure and function while reducing wildfire risk. Seasonally specific prescribed fire is used by many Indigenous groups…
Type: Document
Year: 2022
Nikolakis, Ross
Yunesit’in First Nation is reclaiming fire stewardship after generations of suppression. Applying a “learning by doing” approach, Yunesit’in members plan and implement proactive fire practices to the landscape, which are low intensity cool burn…
Type: Document
Year: 2022
Saving imperiled grassland biomes by recoupling fire and grazing: a case study from the Great Plains
Woody plant encroachment – the conversion of open grasslands and savannas to woodlands – represents one of the gravest threats to grassland biomes worldwide. This is especially true for the Great Plains of the US. We contend that the widespread…
Type: Document
Year: 2022
Jones, Furlaud, Williamson, Johnston, Bowman
Savanna fire management is a topic of global debate, with early dry season burning promoted as a large-scale emissions reduction opportunity. To date, discussions have centred on carbon abatement efficacy, biodiversity and cultural benefits and/or…
Type: Document
Year: 2022
Laming, Fletcher, Romano, Mullett, Connor, Mariani, Maezumi, Gadd
Protecting “wilderness” and removing human involvement in “nature” was a core pillar of the modern conservation movement through the 20th century. Conservation approaches and legislation informed by this narrative fail to recognise that Aboriginal…
Type: Document
Year: 2022
Hoffman, Christianson, Dickson-Hoyle, Copes-Gerbitz, Nikolakis, Diabo, McLeod, Michell, Mamun, Zahara, Mauro, Gilchrist, Ross, Daniels
Indigenous fire stewardship enhances ecosystem diversity, assists with the management of complex resources, and reduces wildfire risk by lessening fuel loads. Although Indigenous Peoples have maintained fire stewardship practices for millennia and…
Type: Document
Year: 2022