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Falk, Heyerdahl, Brown, Farris, Fulé, McKenzie, Swetnam, Taylor, Van Horne
Anticipating future forest-fire regimes under changing climate requires that scientists and natural resource managers understand the factors that control fire across space and time. Fire scars -- proxy records of fires, formed in the growth rings of…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Thompson, Calkin
Wildland fire management is subject to manifold sources of uncertainty. Beyond the unpredictability of wildfire behavior, uncertainty stems from inaccurate/missing data, limited resource value measures to guide prioritization across fires and…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Evans, Everett, Stephens, Youtz
The goal of this guide is to provide a resource for managers of mixed conifer forests of the Southwestern plateaus and uplands, the Central and Southern Rocky Mountains, the Sierra Nevada, and the Transverse and Peninsular Ranges in Southern…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Fine Maron
Global warming and decades of outmoded fire prevention strategies are merging to set the stage for massive 'mega-fires' that scar communities' homes and pocketbooks, according to a new assessment. Preliminary findings from the United Nations' Food…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Thompson, Calkin
Wildland fire management is subject to manifold sources of uncertainty. Beyond the unpredictability of wildfire behavior, uncertainty stems from inaccurate/missing data, limited resource value measures to guide prioritization across fires and…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Abatzoglou, Brown
Place-based data is required in wildfire analyses, particularly in regions of diverse terrain that foster not only strong gradients in meteorological variables, but also complex fire behaviour. However, a majority of downscaling methods are…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
High elevation five-needle pines are rapidly declining throughout North America. The six species, whitebark (Pinus albicaulis Engelm.), limber (P. flexilis James), southwestern white (P. strobiformis Engelm.), foxtail (P. balfouriana Grev. &…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
McKinley, Ryan, Birdsey, Giardina, Harmon, Heath, Houghton, Jackson, Morrison, Murray, Pataki, Skog
Using forests to mitigate climate change has gained much interest in science and policy discussions. We examine the evidence for carbon benefits, environmental and monetary costs, risks and trade-offs for a variety of activities in three general…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
McCaffrey, Stidham, Toman, Shindler
In recent years, altered forest conditions, climate change, and the increasing numbers of homes built in fire prone areas has meant that wildfires are affecting more people. An important part of minimizing the potential negative impacts of wildfire…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Calkin, Ager, Thompson, Finney, Lee, Quigley, McHugh, Riley, Gilbertson-Day
The FLAME Act of 2009 requires the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service and the U.S. Department of Interior to submit to Congress a Cohesive Wildfire Management Strategy. In this report, we explore the general science available for a risk-…
Year: 2011
Type: Document