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Increasing trends in high-severity fire in the southwestern USA from 1984 to 2015
Singleton, Thode, Sánchez Meador, Iniguez
In the last three decades, over 4.1 million hectares have burned in Arizona and New Mexico and the largest fires in documented history have occurred in the past two decades. Changes in burn severity over time, however, have not been well documented…
Year: 2019
Type: Document

Surface fire to crown fire: fire history in the Taos Valley Watersheds, New Mexico, USA
Johnson, Margolis
Tree-ring fire scars, tree ages, historical photographs, and historical surveys indicate that, for centuries, fire played different ecological roles across gradients of elevation, forest, and fire regimes in the Taos Valley Watersheds. Historical…
Year: 2019
Type: Document

Distant neighbors: recent wildfire patterns of the Madrean Sky Islands of southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico
Villarreal, Haire, Iniguez, Cortés-Montaño, Poitras
Background: Information about contemporary fire regimes across the Sky Island mountain ranges of the Madrean Archipelago Ecoregion in the southwestern United States and northern Mexico can provide insight into how historical fire management and land…
Year: 2019
Type: Document

Characterizing 12 years of wildland fire science at the U.S. Geological Survey: wildland fire science publications, 2006-17
Steblein, Miller
Wildland fire characteristics, such as area burned, number of large fires, burn intensity, and fire season duration, have increased steadily over the past 30 years, resulting in substantial increases in the costs of suppressing fires and managing…
Year: 2019
Type: Document

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

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