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Roadmap for wildfire resilience: solutions for a paradigm shift
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…
Year: 2023
Type: Document

Face-to-face with scorching wildfire: potential toxicant exposure and the health risks of smoke for wildland firefighters at the wildland-urban interface
Hwang, Chong, Zhang, Agnew, Xu, Li, Xu
As wildfire risks have elevated due to climate change, the health risks that toxicants from fire smoke pose to wildland firefighters have been exacerbated. Recently, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has reclassified wildland…
Year: 2023
Type: Document

Will They Survive? Management Solutions to Increase the Resilience of High-elevation 5-needle Pine Forests to Climate Change, Pests, and Pathogens
Schoettle, Keane, Bentz, Goeking, Jenkins
Presentation as part of the Science You Can Use Spring 2023 Webinar Series by Anna Schoettle, Research Plant Ecophysiologist, Rocky Mountain Research Station and Bob Keane, Emeritus Scientist, Rocky Mountain Research Station. .
Year: 2023
Type: Media

Reduced fire severity offers near-term buffer to climate-driven declines in conifer resilience across the western United States
Davis, Robles, Kemp, Higuera, Chapman, Metlen, Peeler, Rodman, Woolley, Addington, Buma, Cansler, Case, Collins, Coop, Dobrowski, Gill, Haffey, Harris, Harvey, Haugo, Hurteau, Kulakowski, Littlefield, McCauley, Povak, Shive, Smith, Stevens, Stevens-Rumann, Taylor, Tepley, Young, Andrus, Battaglia, Berkey, Busby, Carlson, Chambers, Dodson, Donato, Downing, Fornwalt, Halofsky, Hoffman, Holz, Iniguez, Krawchuk, Kreider, Larson, Meigs, Roccaforte, Rother, Safford, Schaedel, Sibold, Singleton, Turner, Urza
Increasing fire severity and warmer, drier postfire conditions are making forests in the western United States (West) vulnerable to ecological transformation. Yet, the relative importance of and interactions between these drivers of forest change…
Year: 2023
Type: Document

A hidden cost of single species management: habitat-relationships reveal potential negative effects of conifer removal on a non-target species
Van Lanen, Monroe, Aldridge
Land management priorities and decisions may result in population declines for non-target wildlife species. In the western United States, large-scale removal of conifer from sagebrush ecosystems (Artemisia spp.) is occurring to recover greater sage-…
Year: 2023
Type: Document

Protected areas not likely to serve as steppingstones for species undergoing climate-induced range shifts
Parks, Holsinger, Abatzoglou, Littlefield, Zeller
Species across the planet are shifting their ranges to track suitable climate conditions in response to climate change. Given that protected areas have higher quality habitat and often harbor higher levels of biodiversity compared to unprotected…
Year: 2023
Type: Document

Impact of climate and socioeconomic changes on fire carbon emissions in the future: sustainable economic development might decrease future emissions
Park, Takahashi, Li, Takakura, Fujimori, Hasegawa, Ito, Lee, Thiery
Fires and their associated carbon and air pollutant emissions have a broad range of environmental and societal impacts, including negative effects on human health, damage to terrestrial ecosystems, and indirect effects that promote climate change.…
Year: 2023
Type: Document

SCIENCE x Fire: Modeling Risk and Trade-offs
Stevens, Dillon, Manley, Povak, Nepal
Introduction to SCIENCE x Day 4, brief overview by Jens StevensDelivering wildfire risk information targeted to the community level, presented by Greg DillonJuggling risks and tradeoffs toward a more resilient future: the known, unknown, unknowable…
Year: 2023
Type: Media

Large-scale fire whirl and forest fire disasters: awareness, implications, and the need for developing preventative methods
Darwish Ahmad, Akafuah, Forthofer, Fuchihata, Hirasawa, Kuwana, Nakamura, Sekimoto, Saito, Williams
The authors are a team of fire whirl researchers who have been actively studying whirls and large-scale wildland fires by directly observing them through fire-fighting efforts and applying theory, scale modeling, and numerical simulations in fire…
Year: 2023
Type: Document

Estimating climate-sensitive wildfire risk and tree mortality models for use in broad-scale U.S. forest carbon projections
Pokharel, Latta, Ohrel
This study utilizes forest inventory and climate attributes as the basis for estimating models of wildfire risk and associated biomass loss (tree mortality) and then demonstrates how they can be applied in calculating CO2 emissions related to the…
Year: 2023
Type: Document