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Airway epithelial cells exposed to wildfire smoke extract exhibit dysregulated autophagy and barrier dysfunction consistent with COPD

Roscioli, Hamon, Lester, Jersmann, Reynolds, Hodge
Background: Individuals with respiratory disease are being increasingly exposed to wildfire smoke as populations encroach further into forested regions and climate change continues to bring higher temperatures with lower rainfall. Frequent exposures…
Type: Document
Year: 2018

An evaluation of contemporary savanna fire regimes in the Canastra National Park, Brazil: outcomes of fire suppression policies

Batista, Russell-Smith, França, Figueira
Fire has shaped plant evolution and biogeochemical cycles for millions of years in savanna ecosystems, but changes in natural fire regimes promoted by human land use threaten contemporary conservation efforts. In protected areas in the Brazilian…
Type: Document
Year: 2018

Assessing fire management needs in the Pacific Islands: a collaborative approach

Trauernicht, Pickett, Beimler, Giardina, Cordell, Friday, Moller, Litton
Wildland fire is a significant and growing threat to communities and natural resources on Hawai i and the U.S.- affiliated Pacific Islands, including Guam, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Republic of Palau, the…
Type: Document
Year: 2018

Battle of San Pasqual staff ride

Hambly
This battle’s unintended outcome has valuable lessons to offer the wildland fire service as a learning culture.
Type: Document
Year: 2018

Biomimicry can help humans to coexist sustainably with fire

Smith, Kolden, Bowman
Globally, flora, fauna and many indigenous cultures have evolved to coexist sustainably with fire. We argue that the key to sustainable contemporary human coexistence with wildfires is a form of biomimicry that draws on the evolutionary adaptations…
Type: Document
Year: 2018

Bringing multiple values to the table: assessing future land-use and climate change in North Kona, Hawai’i

Bremer, Mandle, Trauernicht, Pascua, McMillen, Burnett, Wada, Kurashima, Quazi, Giambelluca, Chock, Ticktin
As ecosystem service assessments increasingly contribute to decisions about managing Earth’s lands and waters, there is a growing need to understand the diverse ways that people use and value landscapes. However, these assessments rarely incorporate…
Type: Document
Year: 2018

burnr: Fire history analysis and graphics in R

Malevich, Guiterman, Margolis
We developed a new software package, burnr, for fire history analysis and plotting in the R statistical programming environment. It was developed for tree-ring fire-scar analysis, but is broadly applicable to other event analyses (e.g., avalanches,…
Type: Document
Year: 2018

Can prescribed burning improve resin yield in a tapped Pinus pinaster stand?

Rodríguez-García, Madrigal, González-Sancho, Gil, Guijarro, Hernando
The defence system of Pinus spp. has been exploited to obtain resin for hundreds of years, and studying ways of enhancing yields continues to be important. In this study, we hypothesize that prescribed burning will increase secretory structures and/…
Type: Document
Year: 2018

Changes in lightning fire incidence in the Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area, 1980-2016

Styger, Marsden-Smedley, Kirkpatrick
The Tasmanian Wilderness World Heritage Area (TWWHA) has globally significant natural and cultural values, some of which are dependent on the absence of fire or the presence of particular fire regimes. Planned burning is currently used to reduce the…
Type: Document
Year: 2018

Climate change vulnerability and adaptation in the Intermountain Region - Part 1

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: 2018