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The REBURN Model: Simulating Forest and Fuel Succession and Disturbance Dynamics of Large Landscapes
Prichard, Hessburg
The landscape of eastern Washington, USA is comprised of common temperate forest and nonforest vegetation types distributed along broad topo-edaphic gradients. This landscape acts as the large testbed for presenters Susan Prichard and Paul Hessburg…
Year: 2024
Type: Media

ScienceX Webinar Series
The SCIENCEx webinar series brings together scientists and land management experts from across U.S. Forest Service research stations and beyond to explore the latest science and best practices for addressing large natural resource challenges across…
Year: 2023
Type: Media

National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy: Addendum Update
[Executive Summary] The Wildland Fire Leadership Council (WFLC) presents this Addendum Update, to spotlight wildland fire critical emphasis areas and challenges that were not identified or addressed in depth in the 2014 National Cohesive Wildland…
Year: 2023
Type: Document

Wildland Fire Metareview, 2007–2016
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

2020 WFLC-Western Region Accomplishment Report: Resilient Landscapes - Fire Adapted Communities - Safe, Effective Wildfire Response
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

Fire-weather Drivers of Severity and Spread: Learning from Past Fire Patterns at Grand Canyon National Park to Inform Future Wildfire Decision Making
Mueller
Fire is an essential component in restoring and maintaining a healthy forest. However, historic land use and decades of fire suppression has excluded fire from millions of forested hectares across much of the western United States, including the…
Year: 2021
Type: Media

Recent Fire Regimes of the Bi-National Madrean Sky Islands: Implications for Collaborative, Transboundary Fire Management
Villarreal
In this webinar I will share results of a recent study of contemporary fire regimes over a 32-year period (1985-2017) in the Madrean Sky Islands of the U.S. and México. Our research team evaluated the size, severity and return interval of recent…
Year: 2021
Type: Media

After the “Big One” part 1
Carswell, Haffey, Allen
Part of the Hot and Dry Podcast Series by Cally Carswell and Collin Haffey, supported by the Southwest Fire Science Consortium. There is no single definition of what makes a single fire the “big one.” But there are some common factors: extreme fire…
Year: 2020
Type: Media

The US National Fire Danger Rating System: Past, Present and Future
Jolly, Bradshaw, Freeborn
Year: 2018
Type: Media

Post-fire soil management
Pereira, Francos, Brevik, Ubeda, Bogunovic
Soils are an important natural capital and can be negatively affected by high severity fires. The capacity of soil to recover from the degradation caused by fire disturbance depends on fire history, ash properties, topography, post-fire weather,…
Year: 2018
Type: Document