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Calkin, Thompson, Finney, Hyde
Development of appropriate management strategies for escaped wildland fires is complex. Fire managers need the ability to identify, in real time, the likelihood that wildfire will affect valuable developed and natural resources (e.g., private…
Type: Document
Year: 2011
Venn, Calkin
Forests in the United States generate many non-market benefits for society that can be enhanced and diminished by wildfire and wildfire management. The Federal Wildland Fire Management Policy (1995, updated 2001), and subsequent Guidance to the…
Type: Document
Year: 2011
Reed
This specialist report is an assessment of the potential for the aerial application of fire retardant to affect the character and integrity of historic properties. Additional general information about fire retardant can be found in the EIS.
Type: Document
Year: 2011
Bowman, Murphy
We define pyrogeography as an integrative, multidisciplinary perspective of landscape fire, its ecological effects, and its relationships with human societies. Like biogeography, this program spans geographic scales from the local to the global, has…
Type: Document
Year: 2011
Prober, O'Connor, Walsh
Natural resource scientists and managers increasingly recognize traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) for its potential contribution to contemporary natural resource management (NRM) and, through this, to more resilient social-ecological systems.…
Type: Document
Year: 2011
White, Perrakis, Kafka, Ennis
Currently, high intensity, large-area lightning fires that burn during droughts dominate Canada's fire regimes. However, studies from several disciplines clearly show that humans historically ignited burns within this matrix of large fires. Two…
Type: Document
Year: 2011
A recent scientific project funded by the Joint Fire Science Program studied the potential impact of wildland fire on near-surface archeological resources at six diverse sites within the Midwest Region of the National Park Service (NPS). Information…
Type: Document
Year: 2011
Martinez, Ryszka, Worrall, Mask, Eager, Egeland
We assessed deterioration of 851 fire-killed trees over six years following the wildfires of summer 2002 (sampling in 2002-2007). Five tree species and nine wildfires were studied in seven national forests of the Rocky Mountain Region. One year…
Type: Document
Year: 2011
Giardina, Cordell, Stewart
Hawaii and U.S. affiliated islands across the Pacific face an expanding wildfire threat with important impacts on the Earths most threatened biota. Greater than 90% of plants are Island endemics, with nearly 10% of Hawaiis native flora extinct or…
Type: Project
Year: 2011
Fimrite
This article, entitled 'Grass is Burned to Study Indian Culture', appeared on the front page of the San Francisco Chronicle early this week. It discusses prescribed fire research and the study of traditional use of fire by Native Americans on…
Type: Document
Year: 2011