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'Pyrogeography' Across Western North America: How Climate Has Affected Fire Regimes and Fire History Across the West, and Where We May Be Going the Future
Brown
Peter Brown, Director of Rocky Mountain Tree Ring Research, will present a webinar on September 27, 1 PM MDT. A recent surge of scientific knowledge and interest in fire climatology derives from two factors: increasing understanding of broad-scale…
Year: 2011
Type: Media

US Biomass and Bioenergy Policy: Where Are We and Where Might We Be Going?
Farley
From federal and state land management policies, to Clean Air Act regulations, to energy incentive programs, and even new proposed legislative efforts, the policy environment surrounding use of biomass resources for bioenergy and climate change…
Year: 2011
Type: Media

What Does Climate Change Mean for Fire Management?
Robles
Marcos Robles of the The Nature Conservancy presented information from the Southwest Climate Change Initiative. The Initiative is a collaborative effort started by The Nature Conservancy in 2008 to provide climate science information to natural…
Year: 2011
Type: Media

Using Climate Information for Risk Mitigation and Objective Achievement in Managed Fire
Kolden
Considerable evidence exists that climate impacts wildfires and that climate change will continue to provide challenges for fire management. For fire managers, a key step in meeting those challenges is to identify ways to utilize climate information…
Year: 2011
Type: Media

Investing in natural capital: using economic incentives to overcome barriers to forest restoration
Wu, Kim, Hurteau
A legacy of fire suppression and the impacts of climate change have induced a worsening pattern of large and severe forest fires across the western United States. This has spurred action to jump-start wildfire risk mitigation initiatives. Despite an…
Year: 2011
Type: Document

Wildfire reduces carbon dioxide efflux and increases methane uptake in ponderosa pine forest soils of the southwestern USA
Sullivan, Kolb, Hart, Kaye, Hungate, Dore, Montes-Helu
Severe wildfire may cause long-term changes in the soil-atmosphere exchange of carbon dioxide and methane, two gases known to force atmospheric warming. We examined the effect of a severe wildfire 10 years after burning to determine decadal-scale…
Year: 2011
Type: Document

The carbon costs of mitigating high-severity wildfire in southwestern ponderosa pine
Hurteau, Stoddard, Fulé
Forests provide climate change mitigation benefit by sequestering carbon during growth. This benefit can be reversed by both human and natural disturbances. While some disturbances such as hurricanes are beyond the control of humans, extensive…
Year: 2011
Type: Document

Short- and long-term effects of fire on carbon in US dry temperate forest systems
Hurteau, Brooks
Forests sequester carbon from the atmosphere, and in so doing can mitigate the effects of climate change. Fire is a natural disturbance process in many forest systems that releases carbon back to the atmosphere. In dry temperate forests, fires…
Year: 2011
Type: Document

The FireBGCv2 landscape fire and succession model: a research simulation platform for exploring fire and vegetation dynamics
Keane, Loehman, Holsinger
Fire management faces important emergent issues in the coming years such as climate change, fire exclusion impacts, and wildland-urban development, so new, innovative means are needed to address these challenges. Field studies, while preferable and…
Year: 2011
Type: Document

Phenology of temperate trees in tropical climates
Borchert, Robertson, Schwartz, Williams-Linera
Several North American broad-leaved tree species range from the northern United States at ~47ºN to moist tropical montane forests in Mexico and Central America at 15-20ºN. Along this gradient the average minimum temperatures of the coldest month (…
Year: 2005
Type: Document