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Predicting Long-term Wildfire Effects Across Complex Landscapes
Norman
Presented by Steve Norman, USFS Southern Research Station, and sponsored by the US Forest Service, Research and Development. The Landscape Science Webinar Series occurs monthly on a Tuesday at 1 pm Eastern providing a forum to communicate research…
Year: 2013
Type: Media

A comparison of targeted and systematic fire-scar sampling for estimating historical fire frequency in south-western ponderosa pine forests
Farris, Baisan, Falk, Van Horne, Fulé, Swetnam
Fire history researchers employ various forms of search-based sampling to target specimens that contain visible evidence of well preserved fire scars. Targeted sampling is considered to be the most efficient way to increase the completeness and…
Year: 2013
Type: Document

Rediscovering traditional vegetation management in preserves: trading experiences between cultures and continents
Middleton
Land managers are grappling with massive changes in vegetation structure, particularly in protected areas formerly subjected to fire and grazing. The objective of this review was to compare notes on the historical and current management of…
Year: 2013
Type: Document

Fire-history implications of fire scarring
Baker, Dugan
Fire scars are widely used to reconstruct fire history, yet patterns of scarring are poorly understood, hampering effective sampling and analysis. Factors that influence the probability a tree will receive a scar (SP) and the fraction of trees that…
Year: 2013
Type: Document

Framing our fire story to promote sustainable policies and practices
Mutch
For the 2012 fire season, a USFS 'fire ban' directive raised concerns that a return to a 'suppression'-only response to fire would undermine long-term fire management strategies and policies. Bob Mutch responds with a call for communicating our fire…
Year: 2013
Type: Document

Using fire regimes to delineate zones in a high-resolution lake sediment record from the western United States
Morris, Brunelle, DeRose, Seppa, Power, Carter, Bares
Paleoenvironmental reconstructions are important for understanding the influence of long-term climate variability on ecosystems and landscape disturbance dynamics. In this paper we explore the linkages among past climate, vegetation, and fire…
Year: 2013
Type: Document

Fire regimes of quaking aspen in the mountain west
Shinneman, Baker, Rogers, Kulakowski
Quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides Michx.) is the most widespread tree species in North America, and it is found throughout much of the Mountain West (MW) across a broad range of bioclimatic regions. Aspen typically regenerates asexually and…
Year: 2013
Type: Document

Past meets the present: using old burns in fire management
McDaniel
Using previous burned areas in fire management has long been an important part of the strategies and tactics used by fire crews. However, with the increasing size of fires across the Southwest, current fires are bumping into previous burns more…
Year: 2013
Type: Document

Climatic control of the biomass-burning decline in the Americas after AD 1500
Power, Mayle, Bartlein, Marlon, Anderson, Behling, Brown, Carcaillet, Colombaroli, Gavin, Hallett, Horn, Kennedy, Lane, Long, Moreno, Paitre, Robinson, Taylor, Walsh
The significance and cause of the decline in biomass burning across the Americas after ad 1500 is a topic of considerable debate. We synthesized charcoal records (a proxy for biomass burning) from the Americas and from the remainder of the globe…
Year: 2013
Type: Document

Legacy Wood: How to Recognize an Important Archaeological Resource
Farella, Reiser
Year: 2013
Type: Media