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Kelp, Carroll, Liu, Yantosca, Hockenberry, Mickley
Smoke from wildfires presents one of the greatest threats to air quality, public health, and ecosystems in the United States, especially in the West. Here we quantify the efficacy of prescribed burning as an intervention for mitigating smoke…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
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
Cullen, Axe, Podschwit
National and regional preparedness level (PL) designations support decisions about wildfire risk management. Such decisions occur across the fire season and influence pre-positioning of resources in areas of greatest fire potential, recall of…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Zouhar
Historical fire regimes in plains grassland and prairie ecosystems of central North America are characterized by frequent fires with return intervals ranging from 1 to 35 years. Frequent fires removed accumulated litter, stimulated native grass…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Schultz, Moseley, Amos, Bone, McCaffrey
Prescribed fire is an essential management tool for restoring and maintaining the resilience of fire-dependent ecosystems. Past studies indicated that the current policy environment significantly constrained decision-making around prescribed fire (…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
New science synthesis to inform pinyon and juniper woodlands management in the Western United States
Pinyon and juniper woodlands occupy over 70,000 square miles of the Great Basin and Colorado Plateau. In some areas, pinyon and juniper woodlands are expanding into other vegetation types, like sagebrush steppe. In other areas, these woodlands are…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
O'Connor, Falk, Garfin
Climate stressors on the forests of the American Southwest are shifting species distributions across spatial scales, lengthening potential fire seasons, and increasing the incidence of drought and insect-related die-off. A legacy of fire exclusion…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Evans, Lynch, Naden, Davidson
The purpose of this webinar is to review 2019 fires and look ahead toward conditions for 2020. Dr. Zander Evans will present an overview of the largest fires in the Southwest during 2019. He will share summaries of forest types and burn severities…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Stamper
With increasing fire season duration and complexities in the fire management environment come opportunities to scale up the application of prescribed fire. In this webinar, we will explore the challenges climate change poses for fire managers, as…
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Vermeire, Russell
Fire plays a central role in influencing ecosystem patterns and processes. However, documentation of fire seasonality and plant community response is limited in semiarid grasslands. We evaluated aboveground biomass, cover, and frequency response to…
Year: 2018
Type: Document