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To collect partner and employee input on the Wildfire Crisis Strategy 10-year Implementation Plan, the Forest Service and National Forest Foundation hosted a series of roundtable discussions in the winter and spring of 2022. Individual roundtables were focused on each of the…
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Aquatic, Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: climate change, fire-adapted communities, fireshed, forest health, fuel treatment, ignition, land management, National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy (Cohesive Strategy), resilience, wildfires, Wildfire Crisis Strategy, trusted communicators, shared stewardship, equity, ITEK - Indigenous Traditional Ecological Knowledge
Soil seed bank is an important driver of vegetation dynamics, particularly in fire-prone Mediterranean ecosystems. In this study, we disentangle the effects of fire-related cues on the dynamics of the soil seed bank in semiarid oak forests of western Iran. Soil samples were…
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): International
Keywords: seedling density, heat, richness, post-fire recovery, soil seed bank, Iran, seed germination
Effects of wildfire ash on the growth and biochemical profiles of the aquatic macrophyte Lemna minor
Wildfires are a social and environmental concern to the world due to their many adverse effects, including risk to the public health and security, economic damages in prevention and fight, ecosystems pollution, land usage sustainability, and biodiversity. In the Mediterranean…
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Aquatic, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: anthropogenic pressure, forest fires, eucalypt, pine, duckweed, ash, Lemna minor, Portugal
Increasing wildfire size and severity across the western United States has created an environmental and social crisis that must be approached from a transdisciplinary perspective. This presentation will summarize a recently published article in Current Environmental Health…
Person: Smith, D’Evelyn
Year: 2022
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Social Science
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: smoke exposure, forest management, fire management, human health, environmental justice, smoke impacts, wildfire preparedness, air pollution, health impacts, respiratory effects, cardiovascular effects, adaptive capacity, partnerships, integrated management, collaborative partnerships, Indigenous Peoples, social equity
[from the text] California is facing an unprecedented and growing forest and wildfire crisis. Decades of fire exclusion, coupled with the increasing impacts of climate change, have dramatically increased wildfires’ size and intensity throughout the state. The 2021 wildfire…
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety
Region(s): California
Keywords: pyrodiversity, biodiversity, strategic planning, beneficial fire, cultural burning, managed fire, smoke management
Scientists and partners are working to advance our understanding of fire, developing planning tools, and understanding public perceptions to help reduce barriers to conducting prescribed fires.
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain
Keywords: fuels treatment, POD - Potential Operational Delineation, PM - particulate matter, PM2.5, community-based partnerships, lynx, habitat
Since 1998, the Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP) has provided funding and science delivery for scientific studies associated with managing wildland fire, fuels, and fire-impacted ecosystems to respond to emerging needs of managers, practitioners, and policymakers from local to…
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Administration, Aquatic, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program
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Increasing wildfire size and severity across the western United States has created an environmental and social crisis that must be approached from a transdisciplinary perspective. Climate change and more than a century of fire exclusion and wildfire suppression…
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety
Region(s): California, Northwest
Keywords: wildland fire, wildfire, public health, air quality, exposure, ecological restoration, environmental justice, interdisciplinary, collaborative partnerships
This seminar is part of the USFS Missoula Fire Lab Seminar Series.
Snowpacks act like high mountain reservoirs, but are vulnerable to climate change, while the vast majority of forest fires occur in the seasonal snow zone. Forest fires further exacerbate the influence of warming…
Person: Gleason
Year: 2022
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Aquatic, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Models, Monitoring and Inventory
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southwest
Keywords: climate change, snowpack, snowmelt, snow-water storage, fire severity, wildfires, snow hydrology, snow albedo, black carbon, organic debris, snow water equivalent
Wildfires are natural or anthropogenic phenomena increasing at alarming rates globally due to land-use alterations, droughts, climatic warming, hunting and biological invasions. Whereas wildfire effects on terrestrial ecosystems are marked and relatively well-studied, ash…
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Aquatic, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): International
Keywords: primary productivity, chlorophyll, silicate, diatoms, water chemistry, phytoplankton, Africa
The impacts of wildfire smoke on lake habitats remains unclear. We determined the metabolic response to smoke in the epi-pelagic and two littoral habitats in Castle Lake, California. We compared light regime, gross primary production, ecosystem respiration, and net ecosystem…
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Aquatic, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects
Region(s): California
Keywords: lakes, habitat analysis
Climate change is causing an intensification in tundra fires across the Arctic, including the unprecedented 2015 fires in the Yukon-Kuskokwim (YK) Delta. The YK Delta contains extensive surface waters (∼33% cover) and significant quantities of organic carbon, much of which is…
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Aquatic, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Models
Region(s): Alaska
Keywords: Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, carbon balance, C - carbon, machine learning
[from the text] Under this strategy, the Forest Service will work with partners to engineer a paradigm shift by focusing fuels and forest health treatments more strategically and at the scale of the problem, using the best available science as the guide. At the Forest Service,…
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: resilience, climate change, forest health, fireshed, fuel treatment, ignition, National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy (Cohesive Strategy), wildfires, land management, fire-adapted communities
The Smoke Management Plan regulates prescribed burning on forest land aimed at reducing fuel loading, restoring forest ecosystems, and potentially reducing the risk to communities from catastrophic wildfires, while minimizing air quality impacts from smoke. The Department of…
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Planning, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: Washington, air quality impacts, fuel load reduction, catastrophic wildfire
This study examined how wildfire risk is framed by different entities and actors within a common region, during and after experiencing several large wildfire events. Using a social constructionist lens, we viewed wildfire risk as a fluid and variable concept that is socially…
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Aquatic, Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Hazard and Risk, Social Science
Region(s): Rocky Mountain
Keywords: risk communication, Colorado Front Range, wildfire, drinking water, watershed protection, risk governance, risk management, media coverage, CWPP - Community Wildfire Protection Plan, wildfire policy
Forest carbon offset protocols reward measurable carbon stocks to adhere to accepted greenhouse gas (GHG) accounting principles. This focus on measurable stocks threatens permanence and shifts project-level risks from natural disturbances to an offset registry’s buffer pool.…
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Prevention, Hazard and Risk, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): California
Keywords: greenhouse gas, wildfire, carbon offsets, C - carbon, International Organization for Standardization, natural disturbance
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 do so, this review presents a…
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Administration, Aquatic, Aviation, Climate, Communications, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Occurrence, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Logistics, Mapping, Models, Monitoring and Inventory, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Social Science, Weather, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
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The results of a survey of fire management officials concerning historical and projected prescribed burning activity in the South is reported. Prescribed burning programs on USDA Forest Service and private and state-owned lands are described in terms of area burned by ownership…
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Fire Ecology, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire History, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Rocky Mountain, Southern
Keywords: air quality, Alabama, Arkansas, coastal plain, ecosystem dynamics, education, fire frequency, fire hazard reduction, fire intensity, fire management, fire size, Florida, forest management, fuel loading, fuel management, fuel types, Georgia, grazing, liability, light burning, Louisiana, low intensity burns, mammals, Mississippi, multiple resource management, national forests, nongame birds, Oklahoma, pine forests, Pinus, prescribed fires (escaped), private lands, public information, reforestation, slash, smoke management, South Carolina, spot fires, surface fires, Texas, threatened and endangered species (animals), US Forest Service, understory vegetation, vegetation surveys, Virginia, wildlife habitat management
Wildland fire is a major disturbance agent that shapes the forest health productivity and ecological diversity of eastern Oregon and Washington. Fire behavior and the effects of fire on flora, fauna, soils, air, and water are in large part driven by the availability of fuels to…
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Great Basin, Northwest
Keywords: bibliographies, crown fires, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, fire dependent species, fire exclusion, fire frequency, fire intensity, forest management, fuel accumulation, fuel loading, fuel management, grasslands, ground fires, hardwood forests, health factors, logging, Oregon, partial cutting, pine forests, rangelands, site treatments, soils, succession, thinning, vegetation surveys, Washington, water, wilderness fire management, wildfires
From the text... 'What may be even more surprising is that Georgia has bragging rights when it comes to old-growth longleaf pine forest. Of the old growth remaining in the forest*s historic nine-state range, almost 30 percent is in Georgia. Researchers estimate that when…
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Intelligence, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science, Economics
Region(s): Southern
Keywords: agriculture, air quality, Alabama, amphibians, Aristida beyrichiana, coastal plain, conservation, deciduous forests, eastern Texas, ecosystem dynamics, education, fire dependent species, fire management, fire suppression, Florida, forest management, game birds, Georgia, grasses, grasslands, ground cover, herbaceous vegetation, histories, Jones Ecological Research Center, land use, logging, Longleaf Alliance, longleaf pine, Louisiana, Michigan, military lands, national forests, natural resource legislation, Neel, L., North Carolina, north Florida, old growth forests, pine forests, Pinus palustris, plantations, private lands, public information, reptiles, sandhills, savannas, South Carolina, south Georgia, species diversity (animals), species diversity (plants), Tall Timbers Research Station, Texas, urban habitats, Virginia, Wade Tract, wildlife
Invasion by woody alien plants, construction, and mining operations are among the major disturbances degrading vegetation in the Cape Floristic Kingdom, South Africa. The aim of this study was to assess whether native fynbos shrubland vegetation could be restored following dense…
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Models, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): International
Keywords: Acacia spp., Africa, cover, disturbance, ecosystem dynamics, Eucalyptus diversicolor, fragmentation, fynbos, grasses, grasslands, Hakea, herbaceous vegetation, invasive species, Leucadendron, mining, mortality, overstory, Pinus pinaster, plant growth, population density, post fire recovery, Protea lepidocarpodendron, range management, regeneration, seed germination, seeds, serotiny, site treatments, smoke effects, smoke management, soils, South Africa, statistical analysis, trees, vegetation surveys, woody plants
Twelve 60-m2 plots were cut and weighed in a clearing at a cattle ranch near Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil. Aboveground dry weight biomass averaged 369 metric tons (Mg ha−1) (SD=187). This corresponds to ≈483 Mg ha−1 total biomass. Pre- and post-burn aboveground biomass loading was…
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fuels, Monitoring and Inventory, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): International
Keywords: biomass, burning intervals, deforestation, greenhouse gases, tropical forest, Brazil, rainforest, CO2 - carbon dioxide, Amazon, axis, C - carbon, charcoal, cutting, fire management, diameter classes, forest management, gases, human caused fires, litter, livestock, palms, post-fire recovery, sampling, vines, wood
Between June and November 2000, fourteen focus groups were held in four selected sites to elicit and document the range of perspectives, concepts and lexicon for discussing fire management and fuel treatment. Scales for fuel treatment acceptance factors such as fire knowledge,…
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Intelligence, Logistics, Models, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Safety, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): California, Eastern, Southern
Keywords: public opinion, aesthetics, air quality, catastrophic fires, climatology, conservation, coniferous forests, cutting, deforestation, drought, education, fire case histories, fire control, fire equipment, fire hazard reduction, fire management, fire protection, fire regimes, fire size, fire suppression, firebreak, flammability, firefighting personnel, Florida, forest management, fuel management, grasses, grazing, herbicide, human caused fires, hunting, ignition, Lake States, lightning caused fires, livestock, logging, Michigan, moisture, national forests, national parks, nutrients, pine forests, plantations, post-fire recovery, precipitation, private lands, public information, recreation, regulations, SFP - Southern Fire Portal, Sierra Nevada, site treatments, smoke behavior, smoke effects, species diversity, stand characteristics, statistical analysis, threatened and endangered species, understory vegetation, wind, wildfires, wildlife habitat management
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Administration, Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Planning, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): International
Keywords: agriculture, Amazon, biogeochemical cycles, Brazil, C - carbon, deforestation, distribution, droughts, ecosystem dynamics, ENSO, evapotranspiration, flammability, forest fragmentation, forest management, forest products, fuel accumulation, human caused fires, land management, land use, land use planning, logging, roads, savannas, smoke effects, South America, tropical forests
The Mortar Creek Fire burned 26 000 ha of mixed-conifer Rocky Mountain forest in July-August 1979. Changes in burn stream conditions were examined relative to reference streams for various ecological factors on two to six occasions, from October 1979 to August 1980. Factors…
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Year: 2001
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Topic(s): Aquatic, Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire History, Fuels, Intelligence
Region(s): Great Basin, Northern Rockies
Keywords: Abies lasiocarpa, algae, Betula occidentalis, C - carbon, charcoal, coniferous forests, disturbance, drainage, fire case histories, hydrology, Idaho, invertebrates, leaves, litter, nutrients, organic matter, particulates, Pinus albicaulis, Pinus ponderosa, Populus, Populus tremuloides, K - potassium, precipitation, Pseudotsuga menziesii, runoff, Salix, sampling, seasonal activities, sedimentation, statistical analysis, storms, streams, water, water quality, watershed management, watersheds, wilderness areas, wildfires