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Comparing geography and severity of managed wildfires in California and the southwest USA before and after the implementation of the 2009 policy guidance
Iniguez, Evans, Dadashi, Young, Meyer, Thode, Hedwall, McCaffrey, Fillmore, Bean
Managed wildfires, i.e., naturally ignited wildfires that are managed for resource benefits, have the potential to reduce fuel loads, minimize the effects of future wildfires, and restore critical natural processes across many forest landscapes. In…
Year: 2022
Type: Document

Effective actions for managing resilient high elevation five-needle white pine forests in western North America at multiple scales under changing climates
Keane, Schoettle, Tomback
Many ecologically important high elevation five-needle white pine (HEFNP) forests that historically dominated upper subalpine landscapes of western North America are now being impacted by mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus spp.) outbreaks, the…
Year: 2022
Type: Document

Natural regeneration responses to thinning and burning treatments in ponderosa pine forests and implications for restoration
Wasserman, Waltz, Roccaforte, Springer, Crouse
Understanding naturally occurring pine regeneration dynamics in response to thinning and burning treatments is necessary not only to measure the longevity of the restoration or fuels treatment, but also to assess how well regeneration meets forest…
Year: 2022
Type: Document

Adaptation strategies and approaches for managing fire in a changing climate
Sample, Thode, Peterson, Gallagher, Flatley, Friggens, Evans, Loehman, Hedwall, Brandt, Janowiak, Swanston
As the effects of climate change accumulate and intensify, resource managers juggle existing goals and new mandates to operationalize adaptation. Fire managers contend with the direct effects of climate change on resources in addition to climate-…
Year: 2022
Type: Document

Short-term benefits of prescribed fire to bird communities of dry forests
Saab, Latif, Block, Dudley
Background Low-severity prescribed fire is an important tool to manage fire-maintained forests across North America. In dry conifer forests of the western USA, prescribed fire is often used to reduce fuel loads in forests characterized historically…
Year: 2022
Type: Document

Fire Ecology and management of spotted knapweed, diffuse knapweed, and yellow starthistle – Research Brief
Innes
Spotted knapweed (Centaurea stoebe subsp. micranthos), diffuse knapweed (C. diffusa), and yellow starthistle (C. solstitialis) are nonnative, invasive forbs that can displace native plants, reduce native plant diversity, reduce native wildlife…
Year: 2022
Type: Document

Development of activity recognition models for mechanical fuel treatments using consumer-grade GNSS-RF devices and lidar
Becker, Keefe
Mobile technologies are rapidly advancing the field of forest operations and providing opportunities to quantify management tasks in new ways through increased digitalization. For instance, devices equipped with global navigation satellite system…
Year: 2022
Type: Document

Engagement in local and collaborative wildfire risk mitigation planning across the western U.S.-Evaluating participation and diversity in Community Wildfire Protection Plans
Palsa, Bauer, Evers, Hamilton, Nielsen-Pincus
Since their introduction two decades ago, Community Wildfire Protection Plans (CWPPs) have become a common planning tool for improving community preparedness and risk mitigation in fire-prone regions, and for strengthening coordination among federal…
Year: 2022
Type: Document

Operational resilience in western US frequent-fire forests
North, Tompkins, Bernal, Collins, Stephens, York
With the increasing frequency and severity of altered disturbance regimes in dry, western U.S. forests, treatments promoting resilience have become a management objective but have been difficult to define or operationalize. Many reconstruction…
Year: 2022
Type: Document

Abundance of mites, but not of collembolans or nematodes, is reduced by restoration of a Pinus ponderosa forest with thinning, mastication, and prescribed fire
Gibson, Johnson, Laturno, Parmenter, Antoninka
Thinning, mastication, and prescribed fire are restoration treatments frequently employed in unnaturally dense second-growth Pinus ponderosa forests of the Western United States. Although a goal of these treatments is to restore ecosystem structure…
Year: 2022
Type: Document