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Iglesias, Balch, Travis
Recent fires have fueled concerns that regional and global warming trends are leading to more extreme burning. We found compelling evidence that average fire events in regions of the United States are up to four times the size, triple the frequency…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Belmont
Wildfire has increased 20-fold in the last 30 years in the Western U.S., partly due to climate change and partly due to forest and fire management practices. At the same time, many water resources are drying up. And fish populations throughout the…
Year: 2022
Type: Media
González, González-Trujillo, Muñoz, Armenteras
Fire is a natural agent with a paramount role in ecosystem functioning and biodiversity maintenance. Still, it can also act as a negative force against many ecosystems. Despite some knowledge of the interactions of fire and vegetation, there is no…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Harvey, Holz, Huang, Hurteau, Ilangakoon, Jennings, Jones, Klimaszewski-Patterson, Kobziar, Kominoski, Kosović, Krawchuk, Laris, Leonard, Loria-Salazar, Lucash, Mahmoud, Margolis, Maxwell, McCarty, McWethy, Meyer, Miesel, Moser, Nagy, Niyogi, Palmer, Pellegrini, Poulter, Robertson, Rocha, Sadegh, Santos, Scordo, Sexton, Sharma, Smith, Soja, Still, Swetnam, Syphard, Tingley, Tohidi, Trugman, Turetsky, Varner, Wang, Whitman, Yelenik, Zhang
Fire is an integral component of ecosystems globally and a tool that humans have harnessed for millennia. Altered fire regimes are a fundamental cause and consequence of global change, impacting people and the biophysical systems on which they…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Baker
It is predicted that under a warming climate, wildfire frequency will likely increase. The increase in fire activity is hypothesized as a likely consequence of increased atmospheric CO2-driven climate warming having the potential to influence fire…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
A 10-year review of accidents and incidents within the USDA Forest Service wildland fire system.
This document seeks to describe the wildland fire system and culture within which U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service employees operate. To…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Roos, Guiterman
Megafires in dry conifer forests of the Southwest US are driving transitions to alternative vegetative states, including extensive shrubfields dominated by Gambel oak (Quercus gambelii). Recent tree-ring research on oak shrubfields that predate the…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
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
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
The challenges of the 2020 Fire Year have validated the Cohesive Strategy and proven its foundational value for additional success and achievement across boundaries and landscapes in the West. The following pages offer a snapshot of 2020 activities…
Year: 2021
Type: Document