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Jones, McDermott, Champ, Berrens
Rapidly scaling up the use of prescribed fire is being promoted as an important pathway for reducing the growing damages of wildfire events in the United States, including limiting the health impacts from smoke emissions. However, we do not…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Urbanski, Long, Halliday, Lincoln, Habel, Landis
Wildland fires are a major source of gases and aerosols, and the production, dispersion, and transformation of fire emissions have significant ambient air quality impacts and climate interactions. The increase in wildfire area burned and severity…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: In the spring of 2022, wildfires caused by escaped prescribed fires compelled Chief Randy Moore of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service to call for a 90-day pause in the agency’s prescribed fire program pending a…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Li, Angerer, Wu
High severity rangeland wildfires have enormous negative impacts on human safety and infrastructure, and may have long-term consequences on ecosystem structure, function and services, across the vast rangelands in the western US. We explored prefire…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Fettig, Runyon, Homicz, James, Ulyshen
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Fire and insects are major disturbances in North American forests. We reviewed literature on the effects of fire on bark beetles, defoliators, and pollinators, as well as on the effects of bark beetle and defoliator epidemics on…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Improving fire outcomes for communities requires local organizing and action. The Fire Adapted Communities (FAC) Pathways Tool helps communities identify a set of strategies which are tailored to their strengths and needs, and based on practices…
Year: 2022
Type: Tool
Liu, Zhang
In this article, we propose a mathematical model for insect outbreaks coupled with wildfire disturbances and an optimization model for finding suitable wildfire frequencies. We use a refined Holling II function as a model for the nonlinear response…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Iglesias, Stavros, Balch, Barrett, Cobian-Iñiguez, Hester, Kolden, Leyk, Nagy, Reid, Wiedinmyer, Woolner
Increasing fire impacts across North America are associated with climate and vegetation change, greater exposure through development expansion, and less-well studied but salient social vulnerabilities. We are at a critical moment in the contemporary…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Wildfires are among the worst natural and man-made disasters currently facing our nation. The damage a wildfire causes is multifaceted as it affects multiple areas of civilization and the safety and health of responding firefighters. Today, factors…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Lamont
The interaction effects between climate and fire regime in controlling the type of vegetation and species composition is well established among the Earth’s biomes. Climate and the associated fire regime are never stable for long, and annual…
Year: 2022
Type: Document