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Considering equity in wildfire protection
Auer
Climate change, drought, forest pest infestations, and pathogens, and high fuel loadings all factor into the expansion of territory in the United States deemed high-risk for high-intensity wildfire. Risks also mount as a decades-long demographic…
Year: 2021
Type: Document

Native American Fire Management at an Ancient Wildland-Urban Interface
Roos, Toya, Galvan
As residential development continues into flammable landscapes, wildfires increasingly threaten homes, lives, and livelihoods in the wildland–urban interface (WUI). Although this problem seems distinctly modern, Native American communities have…
Year: 2021
Type: Media

Wildfire Futures: Potential Paths for Change
Steelman
The wildland fire challenge is vexing in part due to its complexity.  Involving a socio-ecological mix of people, weather, climate, landscapes and vegetation, among other factors, it will not be solved overnight.  Policy has been clear for…
Year: 2021
Type: Media

The changing risk and burden of wildfire in the United States
Burke, Driscoll, Heft-Neal, Xue, Burney, Wara
Recent dramatic and deadly increases in global wildfire activity have increased attention on the causes of wildfires, their consequences, and how risk from wildfire might be mitigated. Here we bring together data on the changing risk and societal…
Year: 2021
Type: Document

COVID-19 and forests in Canada and the United States: initial assessment and beyond
Stanturf, Mansuy
Information on the initial effects of a novel coronavirus, COVID-19, during 2020 on forests in Canada and the United States was derived from existing published studies and reports, news items, and policy briefs, amplified by information from…
Year: 2021
Type: Document

Overview of Large Outdoor Fires in Texas
Ezekoye
The Large Outdoor Fires and the Built Environment (LOF&BE) permanent working group has a monthly webinar series. Prof. DK Ezekoye was the speaker for our June 2021 webinar.
Year: 2021
Type: Media

Fire and the Future: Tucson’s Bighorn Fire One Year Later
Wilder, Betancourt, Baldwin, Fulé, Beers, Falk, Brown, Garfin
University of Arizona production partners: Desert Laboratory on Tumamoc Hill, Arizona Public Media, Center for Climate Adaptation Science and Solutions, Southwest Climate Adaptation Science Center In June and July 2020, Tucsonans watched as a…
Year: 2021
Type: Media

Bringing the Heat: Translating Research into Useful Tools for Decision Makers
Barrett
Decision makers are desperately seeking solutions to the wildfire crisis in the West. Driven by several concurrently rising trends—including home development, climate change, accumulated fuels, and human ignitions—increasing risks require us to…
Year: 2021
Type: Media

Developing a set of indicators to identify, monitor, and track impacts and change in forests of the United States
Anderson, Heath, Emery, Hicke, Littell, Lucier, Masek, Peterson, Pouyat, Potter, Robertson, Sperry
United States forestland is an important ecosystem type, land cover, land use, and economic resource that is facing several drivers of change including climatic. Because of its significance, forestland was identified through the National Climate…
Year: 2021
Type: Document

Policy Design to Support Collaboration and Capacity-Building for Federal Fire Management
Schultz
This webinar is part of the Colorado Wildfires 2020 Webinar Series hosted by the Colorado State University, the Southern Rockies Fire Science Network and the Forest Stewards Guild. For the final installment of the Colorado Wildfires 2020 webinar…
Year: 2021
Type: Media