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Beckage, Platt, Gross
Savanna models that are based on recurrent disturbances such as fire result in nonequilibrium savannas, but these models rarely incorporate vegetation feedbacks on fire frequency or include more than two states (grasses and trees). We develop a…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Beck, Connelly, Reese
The ability of prescribed fire to enhance habitat features for Greater Sage-Grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) in Wyoming big sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata wyomingensis) in western North America is poorly understood. We evaluated recovery of…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Dube
Literature shows that at a global scale, fire activity increased from the Last Glacial Maximum to the present. There is incremental evidence indicating that climate defines the regional boundary conditions for fire. Human influence on ignitions…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Sachs
From the text ... 'The purpose of ESF4 [Emergency Support Function 4] is to provide Federal support for the detection and suppression of wildland, rural, and urban fires resulting from, or occurring coincidentally with, an incident requiring a…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Legarza
From the text ... ''In recent years, we have wanted and seen both organizational and systematic changes in Forest Service, Fire and Aviation Management. Although they understand that change is constant and transformation takes time, even the most…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Black, Sutcliffe, Barton
From the text ... 'AARs [After-Action Review] typically ask four questions regarding fire-response operations: what did we set out to do; what actually happened; why is there a difference between the first two; and what should we continue, and what…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Wells
From the text ... 'The Joint Fire Science Program, the National Wildfire Coordinating Group Fuels Management Committee, and Sonoma Technology, Inc. are unveiling the prototype of a new planning environment that will help fuels specialists negotiate…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
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
Soja, Al-Saadi, Pouliot, Kittaka, Zhang, Raffuse, Wiedinmyer
Area burned is one of four primary parameters necessary for estimating biomass burning emissions, and it is a parameter than remains illusive, particularly if we include all area burned. In this report, we compare the intensive 2002 ground-based…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Larkin, O'Neill, Solomon, Raffuse, Strand, Sullivan, Krull, Rorig, Peterson, Ferguson
Smoke from fire is a local, regional and often international issue that is growing in complexity as competition for airshed resources increases. BlueSky is a smoke modeling framework designed to help address this problem by enabling simulations of…
Year: 2009
Type: Document