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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
Frazier, Giardina, Giambelluca, Brewington, Chen, Chu, Fortini, Hall, Helweg, Keener, Longman, Lucas, Mair, Oki, Reyes, Yelenik, Trauernicht
Drought is a prominent feature of Hawaiʻi’s climate. However, it has been over 30 years since the last comprehensive meteorological drought analysis, and recent drying trends have emphasized the need to better understand drought dynamics and multi-…
Type: Document
Year: 2022
A 10-year review of accidents and incidents within the USDA Forest Service wildland fire system.
This document seeks to describe the wildland fire system and culture within which U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service employees operate. To…
Type: Document
Year: 2022
Varela, Vlachogiannis, Sfetsos, Politi, Karozis
This work introduces a methodology for assessing near-future fire weather pattern changes based on the Canadian Fire Weather Index system components (Fire Weather Index (FWI), Initial Spread Index (ISI), Fire Severity Rating (FSR)), applied in…
Type: Document
Year: 2020
Kocher, Mashiri
Fire ecology and behavior and benefits of prescribed fire-Susie Kocher, UCCE Forestry Advisor
Prescribed fire for invasive plants and weeds control-Fadzayi Mashiri, UCCE Natural Resources Advisor
Type: Media
Year: 2020
Piñon-juniper vegetation types, including juniper woodland and savannah, piñon-juniper, and piñon woodland, cover approximately 40 million ha in the western United States, where they provide ecosystem services, wildlife habitat, and cultural and…
Type: Document
Year: 2020
MacEachern
The forest fire that swept across New Brunswick and Maine on 7 October 1825 is remembered as one of the largest and most devastating ones in recorded history, and the first great fire of North American settlement. Yet as its name suggests, the…
Type: Document
Year: 2014
Fernandes, Davies, Ascoli, Fernández, Moreira, Rigolot, Stoof, Vega, Molina
Mediterranean landscapes are in a state of flux due to the impacts of changing land-use patterns and climate. Fuel-weather interactions determine that large, severe wildfires are increasingly common. Prescribed burning in southern Europe is…
Type: Document
Year: 2013
Ryan, Koerner
From the Conclusions ... 'Fires have impacted cultures for millennia and fire will continue to impact contemporary cultures as well as the remnants of past cultures. The challenge is to manage vagetation/fuels to minimize damage to contemporary…
Type: Document
Year: 2012
Liu, Yang, Chang, Weisberg, He
Understanding the spatial patterns of fire occurrence and its response to climate change is vital to fire risk mitigation and vegetation management. Focusing on boreal forests in Northeast China, we used spatial point pattern analysis to model fire…
Type: Document
Year: 2012