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The REBURN Model: Simulating Forest and Fuel Succession and Disturbance Dynamics of Large Landscapes
Prichard, Hessburg
The landscape of eastern Washington, USA is comprised of common temperate forest and nonforest vegetation types distributed along broad topo-edaphic gradients. This landscape acts as the large testbed for presenters Susan Prichard and Paul Hessburg…
Year: 2024
Type: Media

Research gaps limit understanding of invasion-fire cycles
Tomat-Kelly, Flory
Invasive plants can alter fuels and fire regimes in ways that facilitate their spread and dominance through a process known as the invasion-fire cycle. This phenomenon can result in considerable fire and ecosystem impacts, but mechanisms, habitat…
Year: 2023
Type: Document

Fires, Forest Management, and the Future of New Mexico’s Endemic Salamanders
Loehman, Karraker
Uncharacteristically severe and frequent wildfires represent a significant threat to populations of two amphibian species of conservation concern in New Mexico: the Jemez Mountains salamander (Plethodon neomexicanus; Federal…
Year: 2023
Type: Media

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

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

Fuel treatment effectiveness at the landscape scale: a systematic review of simulation studies comparing treatment scenarios in North America
Ott, Kilkenny, Jain
Background: The risk of destructive wildfire on fire-prone landscapes with excessive fuel buildup has prompted the use of fuel reduction treatments to protect valued resources from wildfire damage. The question of how to maximize the effectiveness…
Year: 2023
Type: Document

Future direction of fuels management in sagebrush rangelands
Shinneman, Strand, Pellant, Abatzoglou, Brunson, Glenn, Heinrichs, Sadegh, Vaillant
Sagebrush ecosystems in the United States have been declining since EuroAmerican settlement, largely due to agricultural and urban development, invasive species, and altered fire regimes, resulting in loss of biodiversity and wildlife habitat. To…
Year: 2023
Type: Document

Wildfire and Climate Change Adaptation of Western North American Forests: A Case for Proactive Management
Prichard, Hagmann, Hessburg
Climate change and wildfires pose an existential threat to western North American forests, a reality which necessitates place-based strategies to increase their resilience – if forests are to be widely conserved. EuroAmerican colonization,…
Year: 2023
Type: Media

Identifying the shift in global wildfire weather conditions over the past four decades: an analysis based on change-points and long-term trends
Shi, Touge
Most of studies on change-point at a regional or global scale have only examined a single hydrometeorological variable and have been unable to identify any underlying explanations. In this study, we identified change-points and long-term trends of…
Year: 2023
Type: Document

The role of wildfires in the interplay of forest carbon stocks and wood harvest in the contiguous United States during the 20th century
Magerl, Gingrich, Matej, Cunfer, Forrest, Lauk, Schlaffer, Weidinger, Yuskiw, Erb
Wildfires and land use play a central role in the long-term carbon (C) dynamics of forested ecosystems of the United States. Understanding their linkages with changes in biomass, resource use, and consumption in the context of climate change…
Year: 2023
Type: Document