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Jain, Abrahamson, Anderson, Hood, Hanberry, Kilkenny, Ott, Urza, Chambers, Battaglia, Varner, O'Brien
Maximizing the effectiveness of fuel treatments at the landscape scale is a key research and management need given the inability to treat all areas at risk from wildfire, and there is a growing body of scientific literature assessing this need. We…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Hood, McKinney, Ott, Hanberry, Jain
Maximizing the effectiveness of fuel treatments at the landscape scale is a key research and management need given the inability to treat all areas at risk from wildfire, and there is a growing body of scientific literature assessing this need.…
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Wells, Munson, Sesnie, Villarreal
The spread of flammable invasive grasses, woody plant encroachment, and enhanced aridity have interacted in many grasslands globally to increase wildfire activity and risk to valued assets. Annual variation in the abundance and distribution of fine-…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Al Abri, Grogan
The United States has experienced an even longer and more intense wildfire season than normal in recent years, largely resulting from drought conditions and a buildup of flammable vegetation. The derived stochastic dynamic model in this study was…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Goolsby
This seminar is part of the USFS Missoula Fire Lab Seminar Series.
Theme: Life with Fire: Next Generation IT Fire Modeling
Forest Service & Department of the Interior (Wildland Fire Management Research Development & Applications / Office of…
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Vogler
Land management agencies in the U.S. Departments of Interior and Agriculture can potentially accomplish ecological resource management objectives using unplanned wildfires, but only if such fires do not otherwise threaten to damage valuable…
Year: 2021
Type: Media
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
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
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