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Dating the origins of persistent oak shrubfields in northern New Mexico using soil charcoal and dendrochronology
Roos, Guiterman
Megafires in dry conifer forests of the Southwest US are driving transitions to alternative vegetative states, including extensive shrubfields dominated by Gambel oak (Quercus gambelii). Recent tree-ring research on oak shrubfields that predate the…
Year: 2021
Type: Document

Patterns of anthropogenic fire within the midwestern tallgrass prairie 1673-1905: evidence from written accounts
McClain, Ruffner, Ebinger, Spyreas
We conducted literature searches of records from Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, North Dakota, Ohio, and Wisconsin to create a source bibliography of wildland fire descriptions occurring between 1673 and 1905. A total of 795 landscape…
Year: 2021
Type: Document

Examining Climate-Human-Fire Interactions and Feedbacks in Temperate Ecosystems
McWethy
This seminar is part of Pennsylvania State University's Earth and Environmental Systems Institute's Fall 2021 EarthTalks Series: Fire in the Earth System(link is external). Fires burn in all terrestrial ecosystems on the globe, and wildfires are…
Year: 2021
Type: Media

The Early Evolution of Fire-Human Relationships
Thompson
This seminar is part of Pennsylvania State University's Earth and Environmental Systems Institute's Fall 2021 EarthTalks Series: Fire in the Earth System(link is external). Fires burn in all terrestrial ecosystems on the globe, and wildfires are…
Year: 2021
Type: Media

FireWorks Overview
This 15-minute video provides an overview of the FireWorks program and describes several of the activities.
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

Native American Fire Management at an Ancient Wildland-Urban Interface
Roos, Toya, Galvan
As residential development continues into flammable landscapes, wildfires increasingly threaten homes, lives, and livelihoods in the wildland–urban interface (WUI). Although this problem seems distinctly modern, Native American communities have…
Year: 2021
Type: Media

An Introduction to Wildfire Ecology
Stevens-Rumann
The First Presentation in the Colorado 2020 Wildfire Webinar Series: An Introduction to Wildfire Ecology by Camille Stevens-Rumann, wildfire ecologist, Assistant Professor in the Forest and Rangeland Stewardship Department at Colorado State…
Year: 2021
Type: Media