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Asfaw, McGee, Christianson
This study employed a qualitative community-based research approach to explore factors that influenced Indigenous residents' wildfire evacuation experiences. Fifty-six interviews and two focus group discussions were completed with band members of…
Type: Document
Year: 2019
Vukomanovic, Steelman
Context: Consideration of human-environment dimensions of wildfire make ecosystem services (ES) a useful framework for understanding wildfire challenges and devising viable management strategies. Scientific literature on wildfire and ES is growing…
Type: Document
Year: 2019
The Intermountain Adaptation Partnership (IAP) identified climate change issues relevant to resource management on Federal lands in Nevada, Utah, southern Idaho, eastern California, and western Wyoming, and developed solutions intended to minimize…
Type: Document
Year: 2019
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
Kastendick, Hagsten, Cloud, Eagle
This was a part of the Lake States Fire Science "INTERN" Webinar March 2019.
Blueberry plants (Vaccinium angustifolium and V. myrtilloides) are culturally important to the Ojibwe people of the Great Lakes region, who have gathered berries for…
Type: Media
Year: 2019
Hart-Fredeluces, Ticktin
Understanding how multiple simultaneous drivers interact to influence plant demography is critical for protecting plant diversity in the context of global change. Fire is a key disturbance in forested ecosystems, but the interactive effects of fire…
Type: Document
Year: 2019
Eloy, Bilbao, Mistry, Schmidt
Anthropogenic fire has long shaped landscapes and livelihoods in South American savanna environments. With the growing recognition of the failures of fire suppression policies and the relevance of local peoples’ practices, the Brazilian and…
Type: Document
Year: 2019
Wynecoop, Morgan, Strand, Sanchez-Trigueros
Background: Evaluating fuel treatment effectiveness is challenging when managing a landscape for diverse ecological, social, and economic values. We used a Participatory Geographic Information System (PGIS) to understand Confederated Colville Tribal…
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
Vaiciulyte, Galea, Veeraswamy, Hulse
The number of wildfires occurring globally is exacerbated by urbanisation and changes in weather patterns. In response, researchers have conducted studies of wildfires and human behaviour in regions such as Australia and the USA. Regions in Europe…
Type: Document
Year: 2019