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Kleinhesselink, Kachergis, McCord, Shirley, Hupp, Walker, Carlson, Morford, Jones, Smith, Allred, Naugle
The US Bureau of Land Management (BLM) manages nearly 1 million km2 of public lands that support recreation, livestock production, and wildlife habitat. Monitoring the condition of vegetation on these lands is crucial for sound management but has…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
[Executive Summary] The Wildland Fire Leadership Council (WFLC) presents this Addendum Update, to spotlight wildland fire critical emphasis areas and challenges that were not identified or addressed in depth in the 2014 National Cohesive Wildland…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Reeves
Season 3, Episode 2 of the monthly 'West-Wide Rangeland Fuel Assessment: Reading the Tea Leaves' webcast in which Dr. Matt Reeves, an RMRS Research Ecologist specializing in remote sensing and ecological modeling, analyzes current rangeland fuel…
Year: 2022
Type: Media
Boigné, Bennett, Wang, Ihme
This paper examines how X-ray Computed Tomography (XCT) can provide detailed and quantitative in-situ measurements in bench-scale fire experiments. The method is illustrated by employing a tabletop X-ray system to image the combustion of different…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Wu, Adetona, Song, Naeher, Adetona
Wildland firefighters are directly exposed to elevated levels of wildland fire (WF) smoke. Although studies demonstrate WF smoke exposure is associated with lung function changes, few studies that use invasive sample collection methods have been…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Maczko, Hidinger, Tanaka, Morgan, Mitchell, Fox, Joyce, Duke
Rangelands encompass over 770 million acres of land in the United States, and despite their classification into a single land “type”, these U.S. rangelands occur across a variety of ecosystems and have unique vulnerabilities and suggested management…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Crist, Chambers, Phillips, Prentice, Wiechman
The Science Framework is intended to link the Department of the Interior’s Integrated Rangeland Fire Management Strategy with long-term strategic conservation and restoration actions in the sagebrush biome. The focus is on sagebrush (Artemisia spp…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
The annual national report of the Forest Health Monitoring (FHM) program of the Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, presents forest health status and trends from a national or multi-State regional perspective using a variety of sources,…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Chambers, Crist
The 'Science Framework for Conservation and Restoration of the Sagebrush Biome' is a two-part volume on managing sagebrush ecosystems in the West that was developed by an extensive interagency team of scientists and managers (http://…
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Lahm, Melvin, Uhl
The Western Governors’ Association hosted the webinar, Prescribed Fire: Smoke Management and Regulatory Challenges on Dec. 19, 2017 as part of the series for the National Forest and Rangeland Management Initiative. Prescribed fire is a…
Year: 2017
Type: Media