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Crist, Belger, Davies, Davis, Meldrum, Shinneman, Remington, Welty, Mayer
Fire regimes in sagebrush (Artemisia spp.) ecosystems have been greatly altered across the western United States. Broad-scale invasion of non-native annual grasses, climate change, and human activities have accelerated wildfire cycles, increased…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
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
Wilder, Jarnevich, Franklin, Betancourt
In the southwestern United States, non-native grass invasions have increased wildfire occurrence in deserts and the likelihood of fire spread to and from other biomes. Wildfires were historically small and infrequent in the warm deserts of western…
Year: 2023
Type: Media
[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
St. Clair, St. Clair, St. Clair, St. Clair, St. Clair, St. Clair, Lowry, St. Clair
Human activities are increasing wildfires and livestock activity in arid ecosystems with potential implications for the spread of invasive grasses. The objective of this study was to test whether fire history and cattle activity alter soil resource…
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
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
Belmont
Wildfire has increased 20-fold in the last 30 years in the Western U.S., partly due to climate change and partly due to forest and fire management practices. At the same time, many water resources are drying up. And fish populations throughout the…
Year: 2022
Type: Media
Wollstein, O'Connor, Gear, Hoagland
• Effective wildland fire response and suppression are critical for reducing the size of frequent and severe wildfires, thereby reducing the risk of post-fire conversion to invasive annual grass-dominated plant communities.
• Wildland firefighter…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Wilder, Jarnevich, Baldwin, Black, Franklin, Grissom, Hovanes, Olsson, Malusa, Kibria, Li, Lien, Ponce, Rowe, Soto, Stahl, Young, Betancourt
In the southwestern United States, non-native grass invasions have increased wildfire occurrence in deserts and the likelihood of fire spread to and from other biomes with disparate fire regimes. The elevational transition between desertscrub and…
Year: 2021
Type: Document