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Robertson
There is wide agreement that prescribed fire is essential and under-utilized for restoring and maintaining natural ecosystem function, sustaining native wildlife populations, and mitigating wildfire hazard. There is less agreement on the history of…
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Kush
Longleaf pine and ponderosa pine in the same talk? Both of these forests were often described as open and park-like. This presentation will provide a historical overview of these forests and a discussion of each species ecology and the relationship…
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Dunn
New fire management paradigms are emerging that recognize fire is inevitable, and in many cases desirable. During this webinar you will be introduced to a new process for spatial fire planning using tools such as Potential Control Line atlases (PCLs…
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Distinguishing disturbance from perturbations in fire regimes - research brief for resource managers
If the fire has characteristics that do not fit the historical fire regime with which the fire-adapted ecosystem has developed, then it may impact resilience and cause a shift in ecosystem characteristics.
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Lopez, Frederick, Lake, Wright
In many ecosystems worldwide, fire plays a critical role as a natural disturbance that influences landscape pattern and function. The effects of fire disturbances at landscape levels are central to many tribal cultures in North America, and tribes…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Barnard, Shriver, Pyke
The SageSuccess Project, a joint effort between the USGS, BLM, and USFWS, examines factors contributing to the establishment of big sagebrush. This webinar addresses soils, climate and demography, and to plant or seed.
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Rooney, Stambaugh
Background: Along the prairie-forest border in the south-central USA exists one of the most extensive areas of uncut forest in the nation (>323,750 hectares), providing unique potential for developing multi-century records of environmental…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Yocom, Jenness, Fulé, Thode
Fire shapes landscapes long after the flames are extinguished by leaving legacies of heterogeneous fuel mosaics, species composition patterns, and age classes. Fire perimeters have received little research attention, but their locations have…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Roos, Williamson, Bowman
Paleofire studies frequently discount the impact of human activities in past fire regimes. Globally, we know that a common pattern of anthropogenic burning regimes is to burn many small patches at high frequency, thereby generating landscape…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Daniau, Desprat, Aleman, Bremond, Davis, Fletcher, Marlon, Marquer, Montade, Morales-Molino, Naughton, Rius, Urrego
The Earth has experienced large changes in global and regional climates over the past one million years. Understanding processes and feedbacks that control those past environmental changes is of great interest for better understanding the nature,…
Year: 2019
Type: Document