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Ager, Evers, Day, Alcasena, Houtman
Recent fire seasons brought a new fire reality to the western US, and motivated federal agencies to explore scenarios for augmenting current fuel management and forest restoration in areas where fires might threaten critical resources and developed…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Stephens, Battaglia, Churchill, Collins, Coppoletta, Hoffman, Lydersen, North, Parsons, Ritter, Stevens
For over 20 years, forest fuel reduction has been the dominant management action in western US forests. These same actions have also been associated with the restoration of highly altered frequent-fire forests. Perhaps the vital element in the…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Massman
With the increasing frequency and severity of fire, there is an increasing desire to better manage fuels and minimize, as much as possible, the impacts of fire on soils and other natural resources. Piling and/or burning slash is one method of…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Pais, Carrasco, Elimbi Moudio, Shen
The destructive potential of wildfires has been exacerbated by climate change, causing their frequencies and intensities to continuously increase globally. Generating fire-resilient landscapes via efficient and calculated fuel-treatment plans is…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Russell, Champ, Flores, Martinez, Hatch, Morgan, Clarke
The intent of this article is to raise awareness about an underutilized funding mechanism that possesses the capacity to help tribal and federal land management agencies meet their goal of restoring fire-adapted ecosystems to historic conditions in…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Ellison, Huber-Stearns, Frederick, Coughlan, McCaffrey, Olsen
Smoke from wildland fire presents a serious and growing concern. Mirroring global trends in recent decades, many areas of the US are experiencing increasing wildfire size, severity, and frequency. The health hazard of smoke from wildland fire has…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Cullen, Axe, Podschwit
National and regional preparedness level (PL) designations support decisions about wildfire risk management. Such decisions occur across the fire season and influence pre-positioning of resources in areas of greatest fire potential, recall of…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Leverkus, Buma, Wagenbrenner, Burton, Lingua, Marzano, Thorn
After natural forest disturbances such as wildfires, windstorms and insect outbreaks, salvage logging is commonly applied to reduce economic losses and mitigate subsequent disturbance risk. However, this practice is controversial due to its…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Prichard, Hessburg, Hagmann, Povak, Dobrowski, Hurteau, Kane, Keane, Kobziar, Kolden, North, Parks, Safford, Stevens, Yocom, Churchill, Gray, Huffman, Lake, Khatri-Chhetri
We review science-based adaptation strategies for western North American (wNA) forests that include restoring active fire regimes and fostering resilient structure and composition of forested landscapes. As part of the review, we address common…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Hessburg, Prichard, Hagmann, Povak, Lake
Forest landscapes across western North America (wNA) have experienced extensive changes over the last two centuries, while climatic warming has become a global reality over the last 4 decades. Resulting interactions between historical increases in…
Year: 2021
Type: Document