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A cultural consensus of fire and futility: harvesting beetle-kill for wood-based bioenergy in Wyoming and Colorado

Jensen-Ryan, Budowle, Strauss, Durbin, Beeton, Galvin
This study investigated key forest stakeholders’ perspectives on wood-based bioenergy development in the Medicine Bow Region of Wyoming and Colorado. Utilizing a qualitative data collection and analysis approach, we: (1) documented stakeholders’…
Type: Document
Year: 2019

A qualitative study exploring barriers and facilitators of effective service delivery for Indigenous wildfire hazard evacuees during their stay in host communities

Asfaw, McGee, Christianson
This study employed a qualitative community-based research approach to explore factors that influenced Indigenous residents' wildfire evacuation experiences. Fifty-six interviews and two focus group discussions were completed with band members of…
Type: Document
Year: 2019

A systematic review of relationships between mountain wildfire and ecosystem services

Vukomanovic, Steelman
Context: Consideration of human-environment dimensions of wildfire make ecosystem services (ES) a useful framework for understanding wildfire challenges and devising viable management strategies. Scientific literature on wildfire and ES is growing…
Type: Document
Year: 2019

Challenges in managing landscape fires in eastern Europe

Zibtsev, Goldammer
This report from Eastern Europe provides insight into the multifaceted problem of managing fire in the landscapes of Ukraine, a country that is experiencing dramatic changes in its environment and society. Many of the problems highlighted in this…
Type: Document
Year: 2019

Change in heathland fire sizes inside vs. outside the Bale Mountains National Park, Ethiopia, over 50 years of fire-exclusion policy: lessons for REDD+

Johansson, Senay, Creathorn, Kassa, Hylander
In flammable shrublands fire size often depends on local management. Policy and land use change can drastically alter fire regimes, affecting livelihoods, biodiversity, and carbon storage. In Ethiopia, burning of vegetation is banned, but the burn…
Type: Document
Year: 2019

Climate change vulnerability and adaptation in the Intermountain Region - Part 2

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: 2019

Community conversations: applying traditional knowledge to fire management and research - research brief for resource managers

Lopez, Frederick, Lake, Wright
In many ecosystems worldwide, fire plays a critical role as a natural disturbance that influences landscape pattern and function. The effects of fire disturbances at landscape levels are central to many tribal cultures in North America, and tribes…
Type: Document
Year: 2019

Determination of fire risk to assist fire management for insular areas: the case of a small Greek island

Sakellariou, Tampekis, Samara, Flannigan, Jaeger, Christopoulou, Sfougaris
Forest fire risk estimation constitutes an essential process to prevent high-intensity fires which are associated with severe implications to the natural and cultural environment. The primary aim of this research was to determine fire risk levels…
Type: Document
Year: 2019

Effects of Fire Restoration in Pine Woodlands on the Culturally Important Species: Lowbush and Velvetleaf Blueberry (Vaccinium angustifolium and V. myrtilloides)

Kastendick, Hagsten, Cloud, Eagle
This was a part of the Lake States Fire Science "INTERN" Webinar March 2019. Blueberry plants (Vaccinium angustifolium and V. myrtilloides) are culturally important to the Ojibwe people of the Great Lakes region, who have gathered berries for…
Type: Media
Year: 2019

Effects of understory fire management treatments on California Hazelnut, an ecocultural resource of the Karuk and Yurok Indians in the Pacific Northwest

Marks-Block, Lake, Curran
Before widespread fire exclusion policies, American Indians used broadcast understory fires or cultural burns to enhance resources integral for their livelihood and cultural practices. To restore ecocultural resources depleted from decades of fire…
Type: Document
Year: 2019