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Addressing wildfire is not simply a fire management, fire operations, or wildland-urban interface problem - it is a larger, more complex land management and societal issue. The vision for the next century is to: Safely and effectively extinguish…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Falk, Heyerdahl, Brown, Farris, Fulé, McKenzie, Swetnam, Taylor, Van Horne
Anticipating future forest-fire regimes under changing climate requires that scientists and natural resource managers understand the factors that control fire across space and time. Fire scars -- proxy records of fires, formed in the growth rings of…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Clifford, Cobb, Buenemann
Woody vegetation has expanded in coverage over the past century in many places globally, exemplified by pinyon-juniper changes in the Southwestern United States. Extreme drought is one of the few non-management drivers besides fire that might…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Allen, Steers, Dickens
A review of literature shows that both fire and invasive species may cause changes in biological, chemical, and physical properties of desert soils. Although soil may recover from the impacts of fire during succession, these changes are permanent…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Limb, Fuhlendorf, Engle, Weir, Elmore, Bidwell
Achieving economically optimum livestock production on rangelands can conflict with conservation strategies that require lower stocking rate to maintain wildlife habitat. Combining the spatial and temporal interaction of fire and grazing (pyric-…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Winter, Fuhlendorf, Goad, Davis, Hickman
Patch burning is the deliberate application of fire to a management unit in a heterogeneous manner, resulting in the heterogeneous distribution of grazing animal impact. The application of patch burning typically has been discussed within a…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Miller, MacDonald, Robichaud, Elliot
Many forests and their associated water resources are at increasing risk from large and severe wildfires due to high fuel accumulations and climate change. Extensive fuel treatments are being proposed, but it is not clear where such treatments…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Zinck, Pascual, Grimm
Ecosystems driven by wildfire regimes are characterized by fire size distributions resembling power laws. Existing models produce power laws, but their predicted exponents are too high and fail to capture the exponent's variation with geographic…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
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From the text ... 'For suppression and prescribed fire operations, accurate RH information can be critical.'
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Weir, Limb
From the text ... 'If waste motor oil could be used in drip torches, fire managers may have a new way to dispose of oil, reduce stockpiles of waste petroleum products, and offset some of the fuel costs associated with conducting prescribed burns.'
Year: 2011
Type: Document