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Cultural Burning and Collaborative Fire Research and Management: Approaches for Respectfully Partnering with Tribes
Lake
As collaborative fire management projects between tribal and non-tribal entities are increasingly recognized for their potential to achieve both ecological and cultural fire management goals in a warming climate, it’s important that non-tribal…
Year: 2021
Type: Media

Introduction to fire ecology across USA forested ecosystems: past, present, and future
Greenberg, Collins, Goodrick, Stambaugh, Wein
Fire has, does, and will shape forest structure, composition, and biodi-versity. In this book, we introduce the driving forces, historical patterns, and future management challenges of fire in forested ecoregions across the continental USA. Climate…
Year: 2021
Type: Document

Protected-area targets could be undermined by climate change-driven shifts in ecoregions and biomes
Dobrowski, Littlefield, Lyons, Hollenberg, Carroll, Parks, Abatzoglou, Hegewisch, Gage
Expanding the global protected area network is critical for addressing biodiversity declines and the climate crisis. However, how climate change will affect ecosystem representation within the protected area network remains unclear. Here we use…
Year: 2021
Type: Document

Leaf traits predict global patterns in the structure and flammability of forest litter beds
Burton, Cawson, Filkov, Penman
Fallen plant material such as leaves, needles and branches form litter beds which strongly influence fire ignition and spread. Traits of the dominant species influence litter flammability directly by determining how individual leaves burn and…
Year: 2021
Type: Document

Human-caused fires release more carbon than lightning-caused fires in the conterminous United States
Liu, Yang
Anthropogenic carbon emissions from fires impact the global carbon budget and contribute to global warming. However, due to the lack of inventory data, little was known about how carbon emissions differed between human-caused and lightning-caused…
Year: 2021
Type: Document

Changes in fire weather climatology under 1.5 °C and 2.0 °C warming
Son, Kim, Wang, Jeong, Woo, Jeong, Lee, Kim, LaPlante, Kwon
The 2015 Paris Agreement led to a number of studies that assessed the impact of the 1.5 °C and 2.0 °C increases in global temperature over preindustrial levels. However, those assessments have not actively investigated the impact of these levels of…
Year: 2021
Type: Document

Does conserving roadless wildland increase wildfire activity in western US national forests?
Johnston, Kilbride, Meigs, Dunn, Kennedy
National forests in the western United States are divided roughly in half between lands without roads managed for wilderness characteristics and lands with an extensive road system managed for multiple uses including resource extraction. We…
Year: 2021
Type: Document

A review of the effects of wildfire smoke on the health and behavior of wildlife
Sanderfoot, Bassing, Brusa, Emmet, Swift, Gardner
Climate change is intensifying global wildfire activity, and people and wildlife are increasingly exposed to hazardous air pollution during large-scale smoke events. Although wildfire smoke is considered a growing risk to public health, few studies…
Year: 2021
Type: Document

Discussing the State-of-the-Science on Climate and Wildland Fire: Part 1: The State of Climate Science
Huang, Mote, Simpson
This seminar is part of the USFS Missoula Fire Lab Seminar Series. The Missoula Fire Sciences Laboratory will hold a virtual two-part panel discussion on the state-of-the-science regarding climate and wildland fire during the upcoming fall semester…
Year: 2021
Type: Media

Discussing the State-of-the-Science on Climate and Wildland Fire: Part 2: Intersection of Climate and Wildland Fire
Parks, Syphard, Mass
This seminar is part of the USFS Missoula Fire Lab Seminar Series. The Missoula Fire Sciences Laboratory will hold a virtual two-part panel discussion on the state-of-the-science regarding climate and wildland fire during the upcoming fall semester…
Year: 2021
Type: Media