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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Jones, Vraga, Hessburg, Hurteau, Allen, Keane, Spies, North, Collins, Finney, Lydersen, Westerling
Recent intense fire seasons in Australia, Borneo, South America, Africa, Siberia, and western North America have displaced large numbers of people, burned tens of millions of hectares, and generated societal urgency to address the wildfire problem (…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
McCaffrey
Fire management in the United States is currently facing numerous challenges. While many of these challenges involve questions about how to increase pace and scale of fuels treatments and adapt to longer, sometimes year-round, fire seasons and more…
Year: 2022
Type: Media
McCaffrey, Rappold, Hano, Navarro, Phillips, Prestemon, Vaidyanathan, Abt, Reid, Sacks
At a fundamental level, smoke from wildland fire is of scientific concern because of its potential adverse effects on human health and social well-being. Although many impacts (e.g., evacuations, property loss) occur primarily in proximity to the…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Greiner, Schultz, Kooistra
US fire scientists are developing Potential Wildfire Operational Delineations, also known as ‘PODs’, as a pre-fire season planning tool to promote safe and effective wildland fire response, strengthen risk management approaches in fire management…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Caggiano
This will be the first in our new series to feature “Science in Management Spotlight,” the goal of which is to highlight active use of science in a management setting. Let us know if you have other examples!
A presentation on Potential Operational…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Toombs, Weber, Stegner, Schnase, Lindquist, Lippitt
Today’s extended fire seasons and large fire footprints have prompted state and federal land-management agencies to devote increasingly large portions of their budgets to wildfire management. As fire costs continue to rise, timely and comprehensive…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Mutch
For the 2012 fire season, a USFS 'fire ban' directive raised concerns that a return to a 'suppression'-only response to fire would undermine long-term fire management strategies and policies. Bob Mutch responds with a call for communicating our fire…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Anzalone
The 2011 fire season in the Southwestern Region was extremely active. Several large 'mega-fires' received national media attention, including the Wallow Fire in northern Arizona and the Las Conchas Fire in New Mexico. Both of these fires were the…
Year: 2012
Type: Document
Hall, Irwin
For several months during 2011, wildfires throughout the Southwest Area and Mexico caused air quality impacts on public health across the region, with significant impacts measured hundreds of miles away from individual wildfires. In order to address…
Year: 2012
Type: Media
Elenz
Recommendation 5 submitted to the Joint Fire Science Program Governing Board a decade ago stated that "Collaborative approaches to research, development, and implementation of new information and decision support tools need to be encouraged". A…
Year: 2012
Type: Media