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Loudermilk, Hurteau, Scheller
Active forest management practices (e.g., mechanical thinning, prescribed fire) for reducing fire risk and enhancing forest integrity have become essential in many U.S. forests. The risks of inaction and escalating costs of continued fire…
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
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
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
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
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
Rideout, Wei
Year: 2018
Type: Project
Taylor, Belmecheri
The recent increase the extent and severity of fires in dry western pine forests is an enormous concern for fire and resource managers and has led to a shift in forest management towards fuel treatment to reduce the potential for high severity fire…
Year: 2017
Type: Project
Elmore, Fuhlendorf, Hovick, Thacker, Twidwell
The proposed project addresses Task Statement 6: Compatibility of fire, fuels and rehabilitation treatments with T&E gallinaceous birds of JFSP Project Announcement FA-FON0013-0001. Our proposal targets multiple research needs that are important…
Year: 2017
Type: Project
Thompson, Ager
In this proposal, we outline a methodology for the application of a novel, integrated modeling approach to analyze economic tradeoffs associated with alternative fuel management and suppression policies. The analytical process is designed to…
Year: 2017
Type: Project