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‘I didn’t feel safe inside’: navigating public health advice, housing and living with bushfire smoke
Bushfires, and resulting bushfire smoke, were major environmental, social and health crises in Australia in the summer of 2019–20. In Australia’s national capital the smoke pollution index topped global charts, and public health communications were rapidly developed that advised…
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Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Outreach, Safety, Social Science
Region(s): International
Keywords: bushfire, wildfire, public health, Australia, homes
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
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
This StoryMap presents information about the use of prescribed fire on the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest, specifically: 1) what is prescribed fire, 2) types of prescribed fire, 3) pile burning, 4) understory burning, 5) broadcast burning, 6) benefits of mitigating risk, 7)…
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Year: 2021
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Outreach, Prescribed Fire
Region(s): California, Great Basin
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[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
Wildfires are increasing in frequency and intensity in part because of changing climate conditions and decades of fire suppression. Though fire is a natural ecological process in many forest ecosystems, extreme wildfires now pose a growing threat to the nation’s natural…
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Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Hazard and Risk, Models, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: controlled burn, wildfire resilience, National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy (Cohesive Strategy), partnerships, air quality, equity, cross-boundary
At a fundamental level, smoke from wildland fire is of scientific concern because of its potential adverse effects on human health and social well-being. Although many impacts (e.g., evacuations, property loss) occur primarily in proximity to the actual fire, smoke can end up…
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Communications, Economics, Emissions and Smoke, Outreach, Safety, Social Science
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: human health, health effects, economic impacts, firefighter exposure, risk communication, social acceptability
The impact of smoke from wildland fires on communities across the western United States is an interdisciplinary crisis that requires an interdisciplinary solution. There are increasing calls for cross-collaboration between forest, fire, air quality, and public health…
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Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Safety, Social Science
Region(s): Northwest
Keywords: public health, community health, wildfire, WHWG - Wildfires and Health working group, Washington, collaboration
In this webinar, RMRS research ecologist Sam Cushman, wildlife biologist Joe Ganey, and research ecologist Gavin Jones discussed their latest research on spotted owls and wildfire, including modeling the impacts of habitat loss under climate change on the Mexican spotted owl,…
Person: Cushman, Ganey, Jones
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Models, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): California, Northwest, Southwest
Keywords: climate change, Strix occidentalis, Strix occidentalis caurina, Strix occidentalis lucida, Strix occidentalis occidentalis, spotted owl, annual area burned, habitat, northern spotted owl, California spotted owl, Mexican spotted owl, forest composition, historical fire regime
The SCIENCEx webinar series brings together scientists and land management experts from across U.S. Forest Service research stations and beyond to explore the latest science and best practices for addressing large natural resource challenges across the country. These webinars…
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Year: 2023
Type: Media
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, Restoration and Rehabilitation, 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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In response to the JFSP Funding Opportunity Notice, FON 2015-1 Task 2, which contemplated a Smoke Hazard Warning System, we proposed AIRPACT-Fire for enhanced communication of human health risk with improved wildfire smoke modeling, which robustly addressed the JFSP criteria. We…
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Year: 2022
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Communications, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Behavior, Models, Outreach, Safety
Region(s): Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Northwest
Keywords: AIRPACT, WRF-SFIRE, WRF-SMOKE-CMAQ model, CMAQ - Community Multiscale Air Quality Modeling System, air quality, air pollution, forecasting, wildfire, forest fire, biomass burning, PM2.5, health effects, NowCast, health risk, visual range, relative risk, Kalman Filter, bias correction, kriging
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
[from the text] For millennia, Indigenous communities managed forests in the American West with fire to produce a range of environmental and cultural benefits. This long history of cultural burning combined with frequent lightning produced fire-adapted forests, woodlands, and…
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Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Administration, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Fire Prevention, Fuels, Hazard and Risk, Prescribed Fire, Regulations and Legislation, Restoration and Rehabilitation, Social Science
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest
Keywords: forest resilience, community protection, environmental conservation, risk reduction, private lands, public benefits, liability, forest health, permitting, air quality
Increased forest fires in the future will create opportunities to undertake salvage logging and replanting activities with the potential to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions relative to a ‘do nothing’ scenario that relies on natural regeneration. Salvage logging of fire-…
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Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Hazard and Risk, Models, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): International
Keywords: wildfire, British Columbia, Canada, greenhouse gas emissions, GCBM - Generic Carbon Budget Model
Having recently experienced the three worst wildfire seasons in British Columbia's history in 2017, 2018 and 2021, and anticipating more severe impacts in the future, a key Carbon (C) research priority is to develop reliable models to explore options and identify a portfolio of…
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Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Models, Planning, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): International
Keywords: reduction, wildfire, climate change mitigation, greenhouse gases, GCBM - Generic Carbon Budget Model, British Columbia, Canada
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
Indonesia has experienced frequent fires due to the lowering of groundwater levels caused by drainage via extensive canal networks for agricultural development since the 1970s. However, the impact of canals on fire emissions is still poorly understood. Here we investigate canal…
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Year: 2021
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Aquatic, Emissions and Smoke, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): International
Keywords: peatland, drainage, peatland restoration, water level, wildfire, water level, aerosol emissions
This is the 3rd panel discussion in Season 2 of the Fueling Collaboration series. Moderator Jack McGowan-Stinski (Lake States Fire Science Consortium) discusses all things smoke. What is it? What are the messages we should be communicating? What are the tools that can help us…
Person: McGowan-Stinski, Charney, Kobziar, Wickman, Pitrolo
Year: 2022
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Fuels, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Safety, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: air quality, bioaerosols, firefighter safety, human health, smoke management, smoke effects, CO - carbon monoxide, PM - particulate matter, PM2.5, air pollution, climate change, wildfire
[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
This seminar is part of the USFS Missoula Fire Lab Seminar Series.
The NWS mission is to provide weather data, forecasts, warnings, and decision support services for the protection of life and property and the enhancement of the national economy. You may be asking yourself, how…
Person: Lukinbeal
Year: 2022
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Outreach, Planning, Prescribed Fire, Weather
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, National
Keywords: coordination, air quality, wildfire, health effects, public messaging, forecasting
Bushfires and smoke pose substantial risks to physical and mental health across exposed populations. Enhanced community-level knowledge and response capability may promote exposure reduction and therefore protect health, however few interventions exist to achieve this goal. We…
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Year: 2024
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Outreach
Region(s): International
Keywords: bushfire, air quality, wildfires, health, resilience, online education, Australia
Smoke is one of the fire-related cues that can alter vegetation communities’ compositions, by promoting or excluding different plant species. For over 30 years, smoke-derived compounds have been a hot topic in plant and crop physiology. Research in this field was initiated in…
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Year: 2023
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Emissions and Smoke, Fire Ecology, Fire Effects, Restoration and Rehabilitation
Region(s): Alaska, California, Eastern, Great Basin, Hawaii, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southern, Southwest, International, National
Keywords: butenolide, karrikins, seed germination, plant ecology, crop physiology, plant development and life-history traits, swailing, vegetation restoration
Catastrophic wildfires in the western United States pose significant risks to public health, infrastructure, and ecosystems. As these wildfires become more frequent, there is a growing need for a common methodology to identify suitable locations for prescribed burning aimed at…
Person: Kelp
Year: 2023
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Topic(s): Climate, Emissions and Smoke, Fire Effects, Hazard and Risk, Outreach, Prescribed Fire, Safety, Social Science, Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
Region(s): California, Great Basin, Northern Rockies, Northwest, Rocky Mountain, Southwest
Keywords: smoke exposure, atmospheric chemistry transport modeling, mitigating wildfire impacts, satellite observations, prescribed burning effectiveness, air quality, environmental justice, fine particulate matter, PM2.5, public health