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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
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
Salis, Arca, Del Giudice, Palaiologou, Alcasena-Urdiroz, Ager, Fiori, Pellizzaro, Scarpa, Schirru, Ventura, Casula, Duce
The development of comprehensive fire management and risk assessment strategies is of prominent concern in Southern Europe, due to the expanding scale of wildfire risk. In this work, we applied simulation modeling to analyze fine-scale (100-m…
Type: Document
Year: 2021
Christianson
The Large Outdoor Fires and the Built Environment (LOF&BE) permanent working group has a monthly webinar series. Dr. Amy Christianson was the speaker for the January 2021 webinar.
Type: Media
Year: 2021
Vaiciulyte, Hulse, Veeraswamy, Galea
Evacuation of residents during wildfire is a highly time-sensitive process. Available time may be limited. Previous research on other types of incident demonstrate that individuals delay their evacuation by first undertaking actions in response to…
Type: Document
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
Heaney, Hunter, Clulow, Bowles, Vardoulakis
Public health officials communicate the relevant risks of bushfire smoke exposure and associated health protection measures to affected populations. Increasing global bushfire incidence in the context of climate change motivated this scoping review…
Type: Document
Year: 2021
Santoro, Venturi, Piras, Fiore, Corrieri, Agnoletti
Cinque Terre, one of the most important Italian cultural landscapes, has not been spared from depopulation and agricultural abandonment processes, that involved many rural areas in Europe, as a consequence of socio-economic transformations that…
Type: Document
Year: 2021
Huntsinger, Barry
The California landscape is layered and multifunctional, both historically and spatially. Currently, wildfire size, frequency, and intensity are without precedent, at great cost to human health, property, and lives. We review the contemporary…
Type: Document
Year: 2021