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The Changing Acceptance of Fire's Role in Managing Eastern Ecosystems
Ruffner
Charles Ruffner's (Southern Illinois University) presentation to the 2019 Fire in Eastern Oak Forests Conference in State College, PA
Year: 2019
Type: Media

The history of cooperative forest fire control and the Weeks Act
Southard
Most people familiar with the Weeks Act of 1911 associate it with the establishment of national forests in the Eastern United States. However, the Weeks Act did more for eastern forest conservation than fund the purchase of private forest lands by…
Year: 2019
Type: Document

Smokey's legacy
Christiansen
Like many of us at the Forest Service, I started my career in fire, and I have always relied on Smokey Bear. Fire prevention is part of our cultural DNA.
Year: 2019
Type: Document

Distinguishing disturbance from perturbations in fire regimes - research brief for resource managers
If the fire has characteristics that do not fit the historical fire regime with which the fire-adapted ecosystem has developed, then it may impact resilience and cause a shift in ecosystem characteristics.
Year: 2019
Type: Document

The SageSuccess Project Part 2: Sagebrush Recovery after Fire, Population Trajectories after Restoration, and to Plant or to Seed?
Barnard, Shriver, Pyke
The SageSuccess Project, a joint effort between the USGS, BLM, and USFWS, examines factors contributing to the establishment of big sagebrush. This webinar addresses soils, climate and demography, and to plant or seed.
Year: 2019
Type: Media

Multi-scale synthesis of historical fire regimes along the south-central US prairie-forest border
Rooney, Stambaugh
Background: Along the prairie-forest border in the south-central USA exists one of the most extensive areas of uncut forest in the nation (>323,750 hectares), providing unique potential for developing multi-century records of environmental…
Year: 2019
Type: Document

Previous fires and roads limit wildfire growth in Arizona and New Mexico, U.S.A.
Yocom, Jenness, Fulé, Thode
Fire shapes landscapes long after the flames are extinguished by leaving legacies of heterogeneous fuel mosaics, species composition patterns, and age classes. Fire perimeters have received little research attention, but their locations have…
Year: 2019
Type: Document

The surprising history of wildfires and the West
We’ve spent 100 years growing a tinderbox across the West. Now it's wildfire season. Controlled burning - an indigenous tradition that's been used for millennia - might be a solution.
Year: 2019
Type: Media

Is anthropogenic pyrodiversity invisible in paleofire records?
Roos, Williamson, Bowman
Paleofire studies frequently discount the impact of human activities in past fire regimes. Globally, we know that a common pattern of anthropogenic burning regimes is to burn many small patches at high frequency, thereby generating landscape…
Year: 2019
Type: Document

Terrestrial plant microfossils in palaeoenvironmental studies, pollen, microcharcoal and phytolith. Towards a comprehensive understanding of vegetation, fire and climate changes over the past one million years
Daniau, Desprat, Aleman, Bremond, Davis, Fletcher, Marlon, Marquer, Montade, Morales-Molino, Naughton, Rius, Urrego
The Earth has experienced large changes in global and regional climates over the past one million years. Understanding processes and feedbacks that control those past environmental changes is of great interest for better understanding the nature,…
Year: 2019
Type: Document