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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Soja, Al-Saadi, Giglio, Randall, Kittaka, Pouliot, Kordzi, Raffuse, Pace, Pierce, Moore, Roy, Pierce, Szykman
Biomass burning is significant to emission estimates because: (1) it can be a major contributor of particulate matter and other pollutants; (2) it is one of the most poorly documented of all sources; (3) it can adversely affect human health; and (4…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Landres, Boutcher, Dean, Hall, Blett, Carlson, Mebane, Hardy, Rinehart, Merigliano, Cole, Leach, Wright, Bumpus
The purpose of monitoring wilderness character is to improve wilderness stewardship by providing managers a tool to assess how selected actions and conditions related to wilderness character are changing over time. Wilderness character monitoring…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Larkin, Solomon, Strand, Krull, Rorig
The BlueSky smoke modeling framework, developed with support from the National Fire Plan and recently reworked through a grant from NASA, is used to enable a variety of real-time predictions of surface smoke concentrations from prescribed fires,…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Gottfried, Allen, Warren, McDonald, Bemis, Edminster
Fires caused by lightning or Native Americans were the major ecological factor in the borderlands region of Arizona, New Mexico, and Mexico prior to European settlement. Historical overgrazing and aggressive fire suppression have led to the…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Ffolliott, Stropki, Kauffman
We evaluated the effects of a prescribed fire in a ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) forest intermittently over 43 years. Changing climatic (precipitation) conditions spanned this evaluation with a sequential pattern of annual precipitation regimes…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Abella
Smoke-cued seed germination and emergence is common in some frequent-fire ecosystems, but this process is little studied in frequent-fire conifer forests of the southwestern United States. To assess whether aqueous smoke promotes plant emergence in…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Buckland, Russell, Dickson, Saab, Gorman, Block
Distance sampling is a survey technique for estimating the abundance or density of wild animal populations. Detection probabilities of animals inherently differ by species, age class, habitats, or sex. By incorporating the change in an observer's…
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
Hood
This project will synthesize the literature and current state of knowledge of burning duff mounds and the impact on tree mortality.
Year: 2009
Type: Project
Lahm
A 36-minute video recorded in February 2009 as part of the Effective Communication for Smoke Management in a Changing Air Quality Environment workshops. A presentation describing a progressive approach and overreaching principles of smoke management…
Year: 2009
Type: Media