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Dockry, Hoagland, Leighton, Durglo, Pradhananga
Native American and Alaska Native tribes manage millions of acres of land and are leaders in forestry and fire management practices despite inadequate and inequitable funding. Native American tribes are rarely considered as research partners due to…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Tomat-Kelly, Flory
Invasive plants can alter fuels and fire regimes in ways that facilitate their spread and dominance through a process known as the invasion-fire cycle. This phenomenon can result in considerable fire and ecosystem impacts, but mechanisms, habitat…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Drobney, Londe, Garrett, Spencer, Symstad
Grasslands in the Great Plains and Midwest are at constant risk from invasion by woody species. Conversion to deciduous woodlands and forests is already widespread in the Midwest and the southern Great Plains. This discussion focuses on the many…
Year: 2023
Type: Media
Shinneman, Strand, Pellant, Abatzoglou, Brunson, Glenn, Heinrichs, Sadegh, Vaillant
Sagebrush ecosystems in the United States have been declining since EuroAmerican settlement, largely due to agricultural and urban development, invasive species, and altered fire regimes, resulting in loss of biodiversity and wildlife habitat. To…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Anthony, Applestein, Germino
Aims: Invasion by annual grasses (IAGs) and concomitant increases in wildfire are impacting many drylands globally, and an understanding of factors that contribute to or detract from community resistance to IAGs is needed to inform postfire…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Hanberry
Background: One issue in invasive plant ecology is identification of the factors related to the invasion process that increase number of non-native species. When invasion by non-native species increases, so does the probability that some non-native…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Jacobs, Dumroese, Brennan, Campbell, Conrad, Delborne, Fitzsimmons, Flores, Giardina, Greenwood, Martín, Merkle, Nelson, Newhouse, Powell, Romero-Severson, Showalter, Sniezko, Strauss, Westbrook, Woodcock
Introduced pests (insects and pathogens) have rapidly increased the numbers of at-risk native forest tree species worldwide. Some keystone species have been functionally extirpated, resulting in severe commercial and ecological losses. When efforts…
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
Vanderhoof, Hawbaker, Teske, Noble, Smith
Background: Remotely sensed burned area products are critical to support fire modelling, policy, and management but often require further processing before use.
Aim: We calculated fire history metrics from the Landsat Burned Area Product (1984-2020…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Cornwall
For decades, eastern Oregon’s scablands - rocky patches of open terrain - were a refuge for people fighting wildfires in the surrounding forests. The thin soil and sparse vegetation offered little fuel for the flames, creating an oasis from which…
Year: 2022
Type: Document