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Villarreal, Iniguez, Flesch, Sanderlin, Cortés-Montaño, Conrad, Haire
The relationship between people and wildfire has always been paradoxical: fire is an essential ecological process and management tool, but can also be detrimental to life and property. Consequently, fire regimes have been modified throughout history…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Kerns, Tortorelli, Day, Nietupski, Barros, Kim, Krawchuk
Exotic grasses are a widespread set of invasive species that are notable for their ability to significantly alter key aspects of ecosystem function. Understanding the role and importance of these invaders in forested landscapes has been limited but…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Black, Hayes, Strickland
Purpose of Review: Prescribed fire escapes continue to challenge most fire and land management agencies and many communities. This article considers the issue from knowledge management (KM) and organizational learning (OL) perspectives. We review…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Zhuang, Rose
Prescribed fires are often used as part of a strategy for protecting forests from catastrophic wildfires. Based on agency reports, from 2003-2017 prescribed burns have been used on more than 40 million acres across the US. In this study, the…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Chow, Rosario-Ortiz, Kasprzyk
Detritus material in forest watersheds is the major terrestrial source of dissolved organic matter (DOM) and disinfection byproduct (DBP) precursors in water bodies used as drinking water sources and is also a fuel that can ignite wildfires. In…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Brown, Saul
Isaac Saul of A Plus interviews Sara Brown, director of the USFS Fire Lab’s Fire, Fuels, and Smoke Sciences Program. Sara Brown explains how to stop wildfires from being major disaster events in the United States. The interview provides an overview…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Abrams
Recent policies including the Cohesive Strategy and the 2012 NFMA planning rule emphasize restoration of landscape resilience as a way forward for living with fire on national forestlands. But what does resilience mean, what does it take to plan for…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Garner, Maestas, Mealor, Rutledge
The Western Governors’ Association hosted a webinar to launch a new Toolkit for Invasive Annual Grass Management in the West on Thursday, July 23. WGA and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), under a Shared Stewardship Memorandum of…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Crist
Invasive annual grasses are quickly expanding across the West, dramatically changing sagebrush country. Today we are experiencing more frequent and hotter wildfires that are harmful to communities, western lands, and wildlife. Join in for this 1-…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
van Mantgem, Kerhoulas, Sherriff, Wenderott
Drought, coupled with rising temperatures, is an emerging threat to many forest types across the globe. At least to a degree, we expect management actions that reduce competition (e.g., thinning, prescribed fire, or both) to improve growth of…
Year: 2020
Type: Document