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Stokes, Romanowski, Sen, Greenhalgh, Palmieri
Introduction
In the past ten years, wildfires have burned an average of 6.8 million acres annually. The frequency of wildfires is expected to increase with climate change. Wildfire burn victims have not been previously well characterized in the…
Type: Document
Year: 2021
Prichard, Hessburg, Hagmann, Povak, Dobrowski, Hurteau, Kane, Keane, Kobziar, Kolden, North, Parks, Safford, Stevens, Yocom, Churchill, Gray, Huffman, Lake, Khatri-Chhetri
We review science-based adaptation strategies for western North American (wNA) forests that include restoring active fire regimes and fostering resilient structure and composition of forested landscapes. As part of the review, we address common…
Type: Document
Year: 2021
Prichard
Rapid climate change is bringing warmer, drier, and longer wildfire seasons to western North America, and wildfires have been increasing in severity and area-burned in recent decades. Through years of record-setting wildfires, the key ingredients to…
Type: Document
Year: 2021
Twidwell, Bielski, Scholtz, Fuhlendorf
Fire ecology has a long history of empirical investigation in rangelands. However, the science is inconclusive and incomplete, sparking increasing interest on how to advance the discipline. Here, we introduce a new framework for qualitatively and…
Type: Document
Year: 2021
Day, Houtman, Belavenutti, Ringo, Ager, Bassett
The New Mexico Shared Stewardship Agreement created a framework to allow for the State of New Mexico and the USDA Forest Service to collaboratively identify mutual restoration goals to respond to the increasing suite of challenges facing the…
Type: Document
Year: 2021
Salis, Arca, Del Giudice, Palaiologou, Alcasena-Urdiroz, Ager, Fiori, Pellizzaro, Scarpa, Schirru, Ventura, Casula, Duce
The development of comprehensive fire management and risk assessment strategies is of prominent concern in Southern Europe, due to the expanding scale of wildfire risk. In this work, we applied simulation modeling to analyze fine-scale (100-m…
Type: Document
Year: 2021
Christianson
The Large Outdoor Fires and the Built Environment (LOF&BE) permanent working group has a monthly webinar series. Dr. Amy Christianson was the speaker for the January 2021 webinar.
Type: Media
Year: 2021
Fletcher, Romano, Connor, Mariani, Maezumi
The catastrophic 2019/2020 Black Summer bushfires were the worst fire season in the recorded history of Southeast Australia. These bushfires were one of several recent global conflagrations across landscapes that are homelands of Indigenous peoples…
Type: Document
Year: 2021
Williams, Ford, Rawluk
Practice change is essential if environmental agencies are to incorporate diverse values in decision making, but little is currently known about what constrains or enables such change. Over a 19-month period, we observed how environmental…
Type: Document
Year: 2021
Chen, Tsai, Liu, Tolić, Burton, Chu, Karanfil, Chow
Copper-based algaecides are usually used for controlling algae bloom triggered by the elevated levels of nutrients after wildfires, resulting in the promoted reactivity of dissolved organic matter (DOM) in forming disinfectant byproducts (DBPs). To…
Type: Document
Year: 2021