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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
Clark
Climate stressors on forests of the American West are shifting species’ distributions across spatial and vertical scales, lengthening fire seasons, and increasing the incidence of drought and insect-related die-off. Yet, little is known about the…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Guo
Human activities and global change have resulted in more severe and destructive megafires in forest ecosystems worldwide. Here, I introduce and discuss the concept of 'management mosaics' and how to use it over both space and time to mitigate the…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Friggens, Loehman, Constan, Kneifel
Background: Wildfires of uncharacteristic severity, a consequence of climate changes and accumulated fuels, can cause amplified or novel impacts to archaeological resources. The archaeological record includes physical features associated with human…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Ernstrom, Noble, Schueller
Compare and View up to Five Weather Scenarios to evaluate affects on Fire Behavior. Only in the Interagency Fuel Treatment Decision Support System (IFTDSS) can you run fire behavior models and compare the outputs side-by-side. Easily view on the map…
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Russell, Martinez, Hatch
This webinar considers the Reserved Treaty Rights Lands (RTRL) program and how it has been used to implement collaborative fuel management projects on National Forest lands. RTRL is a funding program administered by the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA…
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Stoddard, Tuten
This webinar will share research on forest structure and understory vegetation responses to three restoration treatments (thin/burn, burn, and control) over 10 years on a mixed-conifer site in southwestern Colorado. Forest density, canopy cover, and…
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Langpap, Wu
Wildfires in the U.S. are growing in extent and severity, causing billions of dollars in damage each year. Wildfire policy has increased its focus on integrating fire suppression with risk mitigation through fuel reduction. In this context…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Colavito
Decision support systems (DSSs) are increasingly common in forest and wildfire planning and management in the United States. Recent policy direction and frameworks call for collaborative assessment of wildfire risk to inform fuels treatment…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Anderson, Plantinga, Wibbenmeyer
Government agencies may be an additional source of unequal representation beyond those stemming from the differential responsiveness of elected officials. In this paper, we use plausibly exogenous focusing events, which raise public demands for…
Year: 2020
Type: Document