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Haring
The Santa Clara Canyon in northern New Mexico suffered near total scorching during the Las Conchas Wildfire, a burn which drastically changed the environment and sediment stability of the canyon. After the fire, a 1% chance rain event exhibited a…
Year: 2024
Type: Media
Vahedifard, Abdollahi, Leshchinsky, Stark, Sadegh, AghaKouchak
The frequency, severity, and spatial extent of destructive wildfires have increased in several regions globally over the past decades. While direct impacts from wildfires are devastating, the hazardous legacy of wildfires affects nearby communities…
Year: 2024
Type: Document
The REBURN Model: Simulating Forest and Fuel Succession and Disturbance Dynamics of Large Landscapes
Prichard, HessburgThe landscape of eastern Washington, USA is comprised of common temperate forest and nonforest vegetation types distributed along broad topo-edaphic gradients. This landscape acts as the large testbed for presenters Susan Prichard and Paul Hessburg…
Year: 2024
Type: Media
Beyene, Leibowitz, Dunn, Bladon
The use of low-severity prescribed fires has been increasingly promoted to reduce the impacts from high-severity wildfires and maintain ecosystem resilience. However, the effects of prescribed fires on water quality have rarely been evaluated…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Niyatiwatchanchai, Pothirat, Chaiwong, Liwsrisakun, Phetsuk, Duangjit, Choomuang
We aim to assess small airway dysfunction, spirometry, health-related quality of life (HR-QoL), and inflammatory biomarkers between the wildland firefighters and healthy controls. Lung function including impulse oscillometry (IOS) and spirometry, HR…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Busse, Shestak, Hubbert
Soil temperature extremes are not uncommon when woody fuels are ignited in prescribed burns or wildfires. Whether this leads to substantial loss of soil organic matter or microbial life is unclear. We created a soil heat gradient by burning four…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Bieber, Vyas, Koltz, Burkle, Bey, Guzinski, Murphy, Vidal
1. Animal ecology and evolution are shaped by environmental perturbations, which are undergoing unprecedented alterations due to climate change. Fire is one such perturbation that causes significant disruption by causing mortality and altering…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Gui, Wang, Hu, Zhou, Wan
As a general disturbance in terrestrial ecosystems, fire can have far-reaching consequences on the carbon (C) cycle. Although soil respiration (SR) is important in regulating atmospheric CO2 concentrations, a general pattern of the response of SR to…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Franz
The topic of “managed wildfire” is mired in complexity, starting with what to call it. This fire management approach has been known as “prescribed natural fire,” “wildland fire use,” “resource objective fire,” and more. All names refer to the same…
Year: 2023
Type: Media
Bean, Evans
All wildfires in the United States are managed, but the strategies used to manage them vary by region and season. “Managed wildfire” is a response strategy to naturally ignited wildfires; it does not prioritize full suppression and allows the fire…
Year: 2023
Type: Document