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Grassmick, Sanderlin, Tingley
In January, the Southwest Fire Science Consortium, USDA Forest Service, Southwest Climate Adaptation Science Center, and many other partners hosted a two-day workshop on the intersection of wildlife and fire. Based on the needs identified in the…
Year: 2024
Type: Media

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

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

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

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

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

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

Swain, Abatzoglou, Kolden, Shive, Kalashnikov, Singh, Smith
Escalating wildfire activity in the western United States has accelerated adverse societal impacts. Observed increases in wildfire severity and impacts to communities have diverse anthropogenic causes-including the legacy of fire suppression…
Year: 2023
Type: Document

Harris, Chapple, McLean, Melville
Globally, fire regimes are undergoing significant changes due to anthropogenic activities and climate change. In some regions, prescribed fire is being reintroduced to management, often after decades of suppression, and wildfires are increasing in…
Year: 2023
Type: Document

Bone, Shultz, Huber-Stearns, Kelley, Cunnin
Prescribed fire is a useful tool for building resilient landscapes in fire-prone areas across the globe. In the western U.S., prescribed fire is employed by federal, state, and Tribal land managers and planned during particular meteorological and…
Year: 2023
Type: Document