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Understanding the Observed Increase in Western US Wildfire Activity over the Past Four Decades
Williams
In this talk I will evaluate the satellite-based record of wildfire in the western US from 1984 through 2020, a period when annual burned areas in the region increased by over 300 percent. I will show that this increase in area burned is mostly due…
Year: 2021
Type: Media

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

Fire and the Future: Tucson’s Bighorn Fire One Year Later
Wilder, Betancourt, Baldwin, Fulé, Beers, Falk, Brown, Garfin
University of Arizona production partners: Desert Laboratory on Tumamoc Hill, Arizona Public Media, Center for Climate Adaptation Science and Solutions, Southwest Climate Adaptation Science Center In June and July 2020, Tucsonans watched as a…
Year: 2021
Type: Media

Effectiveness of Restoration Treatments for Reducing Fuels and Increasing Understory Diversity
Stoddard, Tuten
This webinar will share research on forest structure and understory vegetation responses to three restoration treatments (thin/burn, burn, and control) over 10 years on a mixed-conifer site in southwestern Colorado. Forest density, canopy cover, and…
Year: 2021
Type: Media

East Jemez Landscape Futures: A Collaborative Approach to Post-fire
Haffey, Stortz
The East Jemez Landscape Futures (EJLF) project is a collaborative, landscape-scale approach to help guide future planning and research efforts in the severely altered landscapes of the eastern Jemez Mountains. EJLF seeks to address uncertainty by…
Year: 2020
Type: Media

The Pyrocene: How Humanity Created a Fire Age
Pyne
Dr. Stephen Pyne, the world's foremost fire historian, discusses how we are living in a Fire Age of comparable scale to the Ice Ages of the Pleistocene, and whether our relationship with fire is a mutual assistance pact or a Faustian bargain. To…
Year: 2020
Type: Media

Winter isn't Coming. Prepare for the Pyrocene!
Pyne
Humanity’s fire practices are creating the fire equivalent of an ice age. Our shift from burning living landscapes to burning lithic ones is affecting all aspects of Earth.
Year: 2020
Type: Media

Low-Severity Fires Protect Carbon Stores in Global Peatlands
Flanagan
This webinar will review recent research led by Duke University investigating the impacts of fire on peatland ecosystems. Severe wildfires can cause smoldering ground fires that oxidize entire carbon stores and threaten peatlands around the globe.…
Year: 2020
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