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Addressing wildfire is not simply a fire management, fire operations, or wildland-urban interface problem - it is a larger, more complex land management and societal issue. The vision for the next century is to: Safely and effectively extinguish…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Falk, Heyerdahl, Brown, Farris, Fulé, McKenzie, Swetnam, Taylor, Van Horne
Anticipating future forest-fire regimes under changing climate requires that scientists and natural resource managers understand the factors that control fire across space and time. Fire scars -- proxy records of fires, formed in the growth rings of…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Jenkins, Sieg, Anderson, Kaufman, Pearthree
Long-term fire history reconstructions enhance our understanding of fire behavior and associated geomorphic hazards in forested ecosystems. We used 14C ages on charcoal from fire-induced debris-flow deposits to date prehistoric fires on Kendrick…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Hampton, Sesnie, Bailey, Snider
Thinning treatments focused on small-diameter trees have been designed to restore fire-adapted ponderosa pine ecosystems. Estimating the volume of wood byproducts derived from treatments can assist with agency planning of multiyear thinning…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Glick
From the text ... 'Welcome to the new era of 'megafires,' which rage with such intensity that no human force can put them out. Their main causes, climate change and fire suppression, are fueling a heated debate about how to stop them.'
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Pyne
From the text ... 'While the Wallow Fire was becoming the largest recorded fire in Arizona history, fire historian Steve Pyne was asked to comment on its significance, particularly given that the fire burned on the centennial of the Weeks Act, which…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
This document provides a list of publications produced by the Rocky Mountain Research Station from January-March, 2011. It includes series publications, science perspectives, journal articles, and other publications. The topics covered include all…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Alexander
The third installment in the International Association of Wildland Fire's (IAWF) Fire Behavior and Fuels Conference series was held in Spokane, WA, October 25-29, 2010, and commemorated the 100th anniversary of the 1910 fires in the Northern Rocky…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Falk, Allen, Parmenter, Swetnam
Montane grasslands are an important ecosystem type in Southwestern landscapes, occurring from the forest borders of pinon-juniper woodland to high elevation subalpine and alpine ecosystems. Thus, they often represent a mosaic element embedded in the…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Falk, Allen, Parmenter, Swetnam
Montane grasslands particularly those occurring at middle and high elevations are among the least understood ecosystems in the western United States in terms of their fire regimes. These systems harbor high biological diversity, play key roles in…
Year: 2011
Type: Project