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Wildfire and Fuel Treatment Strategy Effects on Water Quantity across the Conterminous United States
Sun, Caldwell, McNulty, NormanForest watersheds provide over half of our national water supplies. However, wildfires pose increasing threats to stream water quantity, water quality, and drinking water supplies to millions of peoples in municipalities. Wildfires may negatively…
Year: 2019
Type: Project
Sesnie, Dickson, Johnson, Sisk
Prescribed fire plays a vital role in restoring vegetation and fuel bed conditions characteristic of frequent fire regimes in southwestern semidesert grasslands. Nevertheless, fire management activities implemented at local- to landscape-scales must…
Year: 2019
Type: Project
Robichaud, Massman
Accurately modeling the duration and extent of soil heating from prescribed fires and wildfires is vital to predicting many second-order fire effects, including development of soil hydrophobicity and other biological, chemical, and physical effects…
Year: 2019
Type: Project
Hudak, Morgan, Newingham, Strand
Mixed severity wildfires burn large areas in western North America forest ecosystems in most years and this is expected to continue or increase with climate change. Little is understood about vegetation recovery and changing fuel conditions 7-15…
Year: 2018
Type: Project
Yocom, Fulé, Hall, Iniguez, Lata, Thode
Do wildfires act as fuel treatments by affecting subsequent wildfire behavior and management options? We propose to track the fate of wildfires that start inside and outside of previous wildfire perimeters and compare the results. Our objectives are…
Year: 2018
Type: Project
Naughton
The proposed project will quantify the effects of hazardous fuels treatments on suppression costs of subsequent wildfires. Spatial econometric models of daily fire suppression costs will be estimated to determine if and to what spatial and temporal…
Year: 2017
Type: Project
Reynolds, Flather
The Warm Fire burned in pinyon-juniper, ponderosa pine, and mixed-conifer forests at low to high severity on the Kaibab National Forest (KNF) from 8 June to 4 July 2006. The fire burned 15% of our Kaibab Plateau study area where we investigated the…
Year: 2016
Type: Project
Loehman, Archer, Butler, Civitello, Dyer, Evans, Gauthier, Reardon, Steffen
Uncharacteristically severe wildfires can threaten cultural resources through direct effects that are obvious and immediate, such as destruction of structures; or that may be harder to recognize, such as thermal alteration of surface materials.…
Year: 2016
Type: Project
Wright, Evans, Haubensak
Typical hazardous fuel reduction treatments target small diameter trees for removal producing large amounts of woody material, much of which is piled and burned on site. Little is known about how physical characteristics and the environmental…
Year: 2015
Type: Project
Miller, Parks
This proposal addresses JFSP announcement FA-RFA-12-0001, task statement #3 'Fuel treatment effectiveness.' The proposed project will quantify the effectiveness of wildland fire as a fuel treatment in terms of its ability to limit the occurrence,…
Year: 2015
Type: Project