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Accelerating the Use of Prescribed Fire through Policy and Partnerships
Bertone-Riggs, Goulette, Schultz, Shively
Passage of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act and the Forest Service’s 10-year Wildfire Strategy signal a new era of historic investments in ecosystem restoration and wildfire risk reduction in the western U.S. But as initial projects and…
Year: 2022
Type: Media

The costs and costs avoided from wildfire fire management—a conceptual framework for a value of information analysis
Simon, Crowley, Franco
Wildfire is an integral part of many ecosystems, and wildland fires also have the potential for costly impacts to human health and safety, and damage to structures and natural resources. Public land managers use various strategies for managing…
Year: 2022
Type: Document

Beyond a focus on fuel reduction in the WUI: the need for regional wildfire mitigation to address multiple risks
Moritz, Hazard, Johnston, Mayes, Mowery, Oran, Parkinson, Schmidt, Wesolowski
There are thousands of communities and millions of homes in fire-prone wildland–urban interface (WUI) environments. Although future developments may be sited and designed to be more survivable and resistant to losses, an over-arching strategy is…
Year: 2022
Type: Document

Comparing geography and severity of managed wildfires in California and the southwest USA before and after the implementation of the 2009 policy guidance
Iniguez, Evans, Dadashi, Young, Meyer, Thode, Hedwall, McCaffrey, Fillmore, Bean
Managed wildfires, i.e., naturally ignited wildfires that are managed for resource benefits, have the potential to reduce fuel loads, minimize the effects of future wildfires, and restore critical natural processes across many forest landscapes. In…
Year: 2022
Type: Document

Effective actions for managing resilient high elevation five-needle white pine forests in western North America at multiple scales under changing climates
Keane, Schoettle, Tomback
Many ecologically important high elevation five-needle white pine (HEFNP) forests that historically dominated upper subalpine landscapes of western North America are now being impacted by mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus spp.) outbreaks, the…
Year: 2022
Type: Document

Natural regeneration responses to thinning and burning treatments in ponderosa pine forests and implications for restoration
Wasserman, Waltz, Roccaforte, Springer, Crouse
Understanding naturally occurring pine regeneration dynamics in response to thinning and burning treatments is necessary not only to measure the longevity of the restoration or fuels treatment, but also to assess how well regeneration meets forest…
Year: 2022
Type: Document

Adapting Western US Forests to Climate Change & Wildfires: Ten Common Questions
Forests in western North America are shaped by fire and -- for the past century or more -- by the absence of it. After more than a century of fire exclusion and under a rapidly changing climate, fire behavior has changed, and damage from wildfire is…
Year: 2022
Type: Media

Adaptation strategies and approaches for managing fire in a changing climate
Sample, Thode, Peterson, Gallagher, Flatley, Friggens, Evans, Loehman, Hedwall, Brandt, Janowiak, Swanston
As the effects of climate change accumulate and intensify, resource managers juggle existing goals and new mandates to operationalize adaptation. Fire managers contend with the direct effects of climate change on resources in addition to climate-…
Year: 2022
Type: Document

Short-term benefits of prescribed fire to bird communities of dry forests
Saab, Latif, Block, Dudley
Background Low-severity prescribed fire is an important tool to manage fire-maintained forests across North America. In dry conifer forests of the western USA, prescribed fire is often used to reduce fuel loads in forests characterized historically…
Year: 2022
Type: Document

Fire Ecology and management of spotted knapweed, diffuse knapweed, and yellow starthistle – Research Brief
Innes
Spotted knapweed (Centaurea stoebe subsp. micranthos), diffuse knapweed (C. diffusa), and yellow starthistle (C. solstitialis) are nonnative, invasive forbs that can displace native plants, reduce native plant diversity, reduce native wildlife…
Year: 2022
Type: Document