The Southwest Fire Science Consortium is partnering with FRAMES to help fire managers access important fire science information related to the Southwest's top ten fire management issues.
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Reeves
The FVS is currently incapable of estimating succession, biomass and fuels of non-forested landscapes, yet decision support models such as the Interagency Fuels Treatment Decision Support System (IFT-DSS) require this information. In response, we…
Year: 2016
Type: Project
Beyers, Pyke, Wirth
The General Accounting Office has identified a need for better information on the effectiveness of post-fire emergency stabilization and rehabilitation methods used by the U.S. Forest Service and Department of Interior (DOI) agencies. Since reviews…
Year: 2015
Type: Project
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
Busse, Hubbert
Soils are the foundation of terrestrial ecosystems. They provide essential nutrients, water, oxygen, heat, and physical support for the survival and growth of plants and living organisms. A soil's capacity to function within an ecosystem and adjust…
Year: 2014
Type: Project
Robichaud, Foltz, Showers
The increased size and severity of wildland fires require increasingly effective BAER treatments. A commonly used BAER treatment is mulching, the spreading of agricultural straw by hand or from the air using a helicopter. While widely used and…
Year: 2012
Type: Project
Brooks, Bunting, Fuhlendorf, Miller
It has been over 20 years since the last major book on the ecology and management of fire was published that contained extensive information from non-forested ecosystems across western North America (Wright and Bailey 1982). During subsequent years…
Year: 2011
Type: Project
Paschke, Brown, Meiman, Romme
Uncharacteristic fires are becoming increasingly common in Western North America and the frequency of large fires is expected to increase. As a result of the large size and intense nature of these fires, reestablishment of native vegetation is…
Year: 2011
Type: Project
Abella, Smith
Native species selected for revegetating burned southwestern arid lands must meet at least two criteria. These species must (1) be able to be reliably established, and (2) successfully compete in post-fire environments dominated by exotic annual…
Year: 2010
Type: Project
Tanaka
The primary goal of this symposium is to facilitate communication and information sharing across desert, regional, and state boundaries. The workshop that follows the symposium will devise strategies and identify gaps in knowledge to reduce the loss…
Year: 2009
Type: Project
Pyke, Brooks, Chambers, Pilliod, Wirth
The DOl bureaus have spent many millions of dollars on emergency stabilization and burned area rehabilitation treatments in the past decade. A majority of these treatments used seeded native and non-native perennial species to reduce post-fire…
Year: 2009
Type: Project