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Heat input determines the response and rapid recovery of post-fire soil microbial biomass

She, Li, Zhang, Yang, Zhou, Fornacca, Yang, Xiao
Background: The post-fire recovery of soil microbes is critical for ecological conservation, yet the mechanisms behind it are not well understood. Aim: In this study, we examined the recovery patterns of culturable soil microbes following a fire…
Type: Document
Year: 2024

Burn back better: how western states can encourage prescribed fire on private lands

Wood, Varner
[from the text] For millennia, Indigenous communities managed forests in the American West with fire to produce a range of environmental and cultural benefits. This long history of cultural burning combined with frequent lightning produced fire-…
Type: Document
Year: 2023

Degradation and restoration of Indigenous California black oak (Quercus kelloggii) stands in the northern Sierra Nevada

Stephens, Hall, Stephens, Bernal, Collins
Background: The cultural connections of the Maidu to the lands they inhabit are profound with burning being a major component of their culture. California black oak plays an important role in the lifeways of many Indigenous tribes and Native peoples…
Type: Document
Year: 2023

Does large area burned mean a bad fire year? Comparing contemporary wildfire years to historical fire regimes informs the restoration task in fire-dependent forests

Donato, Halofsky, Churchill, Haugo, Cansler, Smith, Harvey
Wildfires and fire seasons are commonly rated largely on the simple metric of area burned (more hectares: bad). A seemingly paradoxical narrative frames large fire seasons as a symptom of a forest health problem (too much fire), while simultaneously…
Type: Document
Year: 2023

Expert knowledge, collaborative concepts, and universal nature: naming the place of Indigenous knowledge within a public-sector cultural burning program

Weir
Investigates whether a cultural burning program embedded within a government bureaucracy can meaningfully support Indigenous peoples’ landscape fires. In particular, it presents evidence on how Indigenous and non-Indigenous individuals encountered,…
Type: Document
Year: 2023

How much does it cost to mitigate soil erosion after wildfires?

Girona-García, Cretella, Fernández, Robichaud, Vieira, Keizer
Wildfires usually increase the hydrological and erosive response of forest areas, carrying high environmental, human, cultural, and financial on- and off-site effects. Post-fire soil erosion control measures have been proven effective at mitigating…
Type: Document
Year: 2023

Partnering in research about land management with tribal nations-insights from the Pacific West

Steen-Adams, Lake, Jones, Kruger
Multiple aspects of forest land management present research partnership opportunities for the USDA Forest Service and tribal nations. These aspects include forests, fuels, and ecocultural resources that often are appropriate to manage at the…
Type: Document
Year: 2023

Understanding the Black Summer bushfires through research: a summary of key findings from the Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC

The report – Understanding the Black Summer bushfires through research: a summary of key findings from the Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC – presents findings from 23 projects within four research themes, covering different issues and knowledge…
Type: Document
Year: 2023

Wildfire and Climate Change Adaptation of Western North American Forests: A Case for Proactive Management

Prichard, Hagmann, Hessburg
Climate change and wildfires pose an existential threat to western North American forests, a reality which necessitates place-based strategies to increase their resilience – if forests are to be widely conserved. EuroAmerican colonization,…
Type: Media
Year: 2023

California’s strategic plan for expanding the use of beneficial fire

[from the text] California is facing an unprecedented and growing forest and wildfire crisis. Decades of fire exclusion, coupled with the increasing impacts of climate change, have dramatically increased wildfires’ size and intensity throughout the…
Type: Document
Year: 2022