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Human fire legacies on ecological landscapes
Power, Codding, Taylor, Swetnam, Magargal, Bird, O'Connell
The primacy of past human activity in triggering change in earth’s ecosystems remains a contested idea. Treating human-environmental dynamics as a dichotomous phenomenon – turning “on” or “off” at some tipping point in the past – misses the broader…
Year: 2018
Type: Document

burnr: Fire history analysis and graphics in R
Malevich, Guiterman, Margolis
We developed a new software package, burnr, for fire history analysis and plotting in the R statistical programming environment. It was developed for tree-ring fire-scar analysis, but is broadly applicable to other event analyses (e.g., avalanches,…
Year: 2018
Type: Document

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

Fire is Essential and Irrepressible in Western Forests
Arno
This seminar is part of the USFS Missoula Fire Lab Seminar Series.
Year: 2018
Type: Media

Assessing the minimum number of time since last fire sample-points required to estimate the fire cycle: influences of fire rotation length and study area scale
Wei, Larsen
Boreal forest fire history is typically reconstructed using tree-ring based time since last fire (TSLF) frequency distributions from across the landscape. We employed stochastic landscape fire simulations to assess how large a study area and how…
Year: 2018
Type: Document

Adapting Wildfire Management to 21st Century Conditions
Schoennagel, Godwin, Miller
The combination of frequent droughts, changing climate conditions, and longer fire seasons along with urban development expansion into wildland areas has resulted in more difficult conditions for managing wildfires. Wildfires are causing more…
Year: 2018
Type: Media

Spatiotemporal variability of fire regimes in adjacent Native American and public forests, New Mexico, USA
Tarancón, Fulé, Sánchez Meador, Kim, Padilla
Statistical descriptions of reconstructed fire regimes are often extrapolated from a composite of small forest stands to represent extensive geographical areas. However, statistical properties of fire regimes are scale‐dependent, thus causing some…
Year: 2018
Type: Document

Fire FAQs - have the size and severity of forest wildfires increased in Oregon and across the west?
Bennett, Fitzgerald, Leavell, Berger
Presents research findings from the last ten years on the patterns of fire sizes since the 1980s. One in a series of fire FAQs that are based on questions Forest & Natural Resource Extension agents and specialists have received from the people…
Year: 2018
Type: Document

Humans Modulate Fire Regimes, Forest Characteristics, and Fire-Climate Relationships in California Montane Forests, USA
Taylor
Guest Lecture for OSU fierylabs.
Year: 2018
Type: Media

Here and There: A Fire Survey
Pyne
Fire is special. Even among the ancient elements, fire is different because it alone is a reaction. It synthesizes its surroundings; it takes its character from its context. It varies by place, by culture, and by time. It has no single expression.…
Year: 2018
Type: Document