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Effectiveness of fuel treatments at the landscape scale: state of understanding and key research gaps - Final Report to the Joint Fire Science Program
Jain, Abrahamson, Anderson, Hood, Hanberry, Kilkenny, Ott, Urza, Chambers, Battaglia, Varner, O'Brien
Maximizing the effectiveness of fuel treatments at the landscape scale is a key research and management need given the inability to treat all areas at risk from wildfire, and there is a growing body of scientific literature assessing this need. We…
Year: 2021
Type: Document

Cultural Burning and Collaborative Fire Research and Management: Approaches for Respectfully Partnering with Tribes
Lake
As collaborative fire management projects between tribal and non-tribal entities are increasingly recognized for their potential to achieve both ecological and cultural fire management goals in a warming climate, it’s important that non-tribal…
Year: 2021
Type: Media

All Hands All Lands Pile Burn Squad 2020-2021
The All Hands All Lands burn team (AHAL) is a collaborative effort to accelerate the return of fire to the frequent-fire ecosystems in the Water Fund landscape. AHAL accomplishes this by providing support in all phases of prescribed burning, from…
Year: 2021
Type: Media

What We Know About Landscape Fuel Treatment Effectiveness
Hood, McKinney, Ott, Hanberry, Jain
Maximizing the effectiveness of fuel treatments at the landscape scale is a key research and management need given the inability to treat all areas at risk from wildfire, and there is a growing body of scientific literature assessing this need.…
Year: 2021
Type: Media

Joining laboratory, greenhouse, and field approaches to improve our understanding of fire effects on seed germination in Great Basin, Colorado Plateau, and Sonoran deserts - Final Report to the Joint Fire Science Program
Reed
Fire frequency has increased across the western U.S. and is expected to continue (Abatzoglou and Williams 2016; Brown, Hall, and Westerling 2004). With this reality, it is critical that we improve our understanding of how fire affects the ability of…
Year: 2021
Type: Document

How Well Does the 10% Wind Speed Rule of Thumb Work for Estimating Wildfire Spread Rates?
Alexander, Cruz
In 2019 we described the development of a rule of thumb for estimating a wildfire’s forward rate of spread in cases when burning conditions are severe (i.e., namely when wind speeds are high and fuels are critically dry) and the time available to…
Year: 2021
Type: Media

Probabilistic Weather Forecast Data for Fire Decision Makers
Leach, Gibson
This seminar is part of the USFS Missoula Fire Lab Seminar Series. NWS Missoula has experimented with methods for distributing probabilistic forecast information from the National Blend of Models (NBM). These are text-based and intended to…
Year: 2021
Type: Media

Dual Frequency Comb Spectroscopy in Combustion Processes
Makowiecki
This seminar is part of the USFS Missoula Fire Lab Seminar Series. In-situ measurements of combustion systems are challenging due to high temperatures, rapidly varying spatial properties, and limited physical and optical access. In biomass…
Year: 2021
Type: Media

Human-caused fires release more carbon than lightning-caused fires in the conterminous United States
Liu, Yang
Anthropogenic carbon emissions from fires impact the global carbon budget and contribute to global warming. However, due to the lack of inventory data, little was known about how carbon emissions differed between human-caused and lightning-caused…
Year: 2021
Type: Document

Co-managing risk or ‘parallel play’? Examining connectivity across wildfire risk mitigation and fire response in the Intermountain West - Final Report to the Joint Fire Science Program
Davis, Huber-Stearns, Cheng, McAvoy
This research was designed to address the need for a more cohesive approach to managing wildfire risk in the western United States. This involves multiple entities with diverse, often competing policies, incentives, and practices who are not well-…
Year: 2021
Type: Document