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Bramwell
From the text ... 'One of the smokejumper program's defining characteristics is its commitment to innovation--a constant refinement of equipment and techniques that hearkens back to the program's earliest days.'
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Yocom, Fulé, Bunn, Gdula
Two ends of the fire regime spectrum are a frequent low-intensity fire regime and an infrequent high-intensity fire regime, but intermediate fire regimes combine high- and low-severity fire over space and time. We used fire-scar and tree-age data to…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Short
Analyses to identify and relate trends in wildfire activity to factors such as climate, population, land use or land cover and wildland fire policy are increasingly popular in the United States. There is a wealth of US wildfire activity data…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Parks, Holsinger, Miller, Nelson
Theory suggests that natural fire regimes can result in landscapes that are both self-regulating and resilient to fire. For example, because fires consume fuel, they may create barriers to the spread of future fires, thereby regulating fire size.…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Yocom, Fulé
Dendrochronologists studying fire history must be strategic in their search for fire-scarred tree samples. Because it is desirable to extend the period of analysis in a site by looking for old scars, recent scars, and trees with large numbers of…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Whiteside, Lindstrom, Irmis, Glasspool, Schaller, Dunlavey, Nesbitt, Smith, Turner
A major unresolved aspect of the rise of dinosaurs is why early dinosaurs and their relatives were rare and species-poor at low paleolatitudes throughout the Late Triassic Period, a pattern persisting 30 million years after their origin and 10-15…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Dugan, Baker
Questions: Dry forests throughout the world were historically influenced by fires and climatic events, evidenced by tree recruitment pulses in forest age structures, but did these influences act randomly or were recruitment pulses contingent on the…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Christianson
This article reviews social science research on Indigenous wildfire management in Australia, Canada and the United States after the year 2000 and explores future research needs in the field. In these three countries, social science research…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Yang, Tian, Tao, Ren, Pan, Liu, Wang
Fire frequency, extent, and size exhibit a strong linkage with climate conditions and play a vital role in the climate system. Previous studies have shown that the frequency of large fires in the western United States increased significantly since…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Glasspool, Scott, Waltham, Pronina, Shao
Analyses of bulk petrographic data indicate that during the Late Paleozoic wildfires were more prevalent than at present. We propose that the development of fire systems through this interval was controlled predominantly by the elevated atmospheric…
Year: 2015
Type: Document