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[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
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
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
Wright, Evans, Haubensak, Emhoff, Denipah
Typical hazardous fuel reduction treatments target small diameter trees for removal producing large amounts of woody material, much of which is piled and burned on site. Little is known about how physical characteristics and the environmental…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Wright, Evans, Haubensak
Typical hazardous fuel reduction treatments target small diameter trees for removal producing large amounts of woody material, much of which is piled and burned on site. Little is known about how physical characteristics and the environmental…
Year: 2015
Type: Project
O'Neill, Lahm
Fire is an essential ecological disturbance, providing many benefits to the environment in terms of wildlife, water and soil quality, and nutrient cycling. Prescribed burning can also be a means of protecting air quality by mitigating the occurrence…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Bowman, Balch, Artaxo, Bond, Carlson, Cochrane, D'Antonio, DeFries, Doyle, Harrison, Johnston, Keeley, Krawchuk, Kull, Marston, Moritz, Prentice, Roos, Scott, Swetnam, Van der Werf, Pyne
Fire is a worldwide phenomenon that appears in the geological record soon after the appearance of terrestrial plants. Fire influences global ecosystem patterns and processes, including vegetation distribution and structure, the carbon cycle, and…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Weir
Landowners and managers, municipalities, the logging and livestock industries, and conservation professionals all increasingly recognize that setting prescribed fires may reduce the devastating effects of wildfire, control invasive brush and weeds,…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Paz
From the text ... 'Providing nationwide leadership in the development, testing, analysis, standardization, and evaluation of equipment, materials, and procedures for the protection and management of national forests and grasslands is the mission of…
Year: 2008
Type: Document
Zouhar, Smith, Sutherland
Considerable experimental and theoretical work has been done on general concepts regarding nonnative species and disturbance, but experimental research on the effects of fire on nonnative invasive species is sparse. We begin this chapter by…
Year: 2008
Type: Document