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Redmond, Golden, Cobb, Barger
Large tracts of land across the western United States have been managed over the last century in an effort to increase forage production, reduce the risk of wildland fires, and/or restore ecosystem structure and function. Yet documentation of this…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Toman, Shindler, McCaffrey, Bennett
Wildland fire affects both public and private resources throughout the United States. A century of fire suppression has contributed to changing ecological conditions and accumulated fuel loads. Managers have used a variety of approaches to address…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Tarancón, Fulé, Shive, Sieg, Sánchez Meador, Strom
Post-fire predictions of forest recovery under future climate change and management actions are necessary for forest managers to make decisions about treatments. We applied the Climate-Forest Vegetation Simulator (Climate-FVS), a new version of a…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Ray, Dickson, Sisk, Sesnie
Wildlife species of conservation concern can present forest managers with a particular challenge when habitat needs appear to be in contrast with other management objectives, particularly fuel reduction to reduce wildfire risk. Proposed actions can…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Parks, Miller, Nelson, Holden
Wildland fire is an important natural process in many ecosystems. However, fire exclusion has reduced frequency of fire and area burned in many dry forest types, which may affect vegetation structure and composition, and potential fire behavior. In…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Ager, Day, McHugh, Short, Gilbertson-Day, Finney, Calkin
Substantial investments in fuel management activities on national forests in the western US are part of a national strategy to reduce human and ecological losses from catastrophic wildfire and create fire resilient landscapes. Prioritizing these…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Abella, Springer
From the Introduction ... 'Understanding influences of silvicultural, fuel reduction, and restoration treatments involving tree cutting and fire is fundamental to managing mixed conifer forests, coupled with knowledge of effects of wildfires that…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Zimmerman, Lasko, Kaufmann
Significant changes occurring in the wildland fire environment of the United States are generatinguncharacteristic shifts in the complexity, behavior, extent, and effects of wildfires. Increases in wildfire numbers, temporal and spatial scales, and…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Sensibaugh, Huffman
Fire is a key process that has played a central role in structuring and regulating the function of forest ecosystems over millennia. There is increasing interest in using fire, particularly naturally ignited wildland fires (Figure 1), to provide a…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Littell
Presentation made at 2014 Spring Alaska Fire Science Workshop.
Year: 2014
Type: Document