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Logan
From the text ... 'Decades of intense fire suppression have created thickets of trees and brush where the natural fire regime of more frequent, low intensity fires once nurtured a park-like forest of well-spaced trees and grass. Meanwhile, climate…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Gorte
From the Introduction ... 'Wildfires generally are getting larger and causing more damage. The past decade has seen the six worst fire seasons of the past half-century....Wildfire protection is also getting more costly. Bigger fires cost more to…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Haire, McGarigal, Miller
In many U.S. federally designated wilderness areas, wildfires are likely to burn of their own accord due to favorable management policies and remote location. Previous research suggested that limitations on fire size can result from the evolution of…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Abatzoglou, Kolden
Increased wildfire activity (e.g. number of starts, area burned, fire behaviour) across the western United States in recent decades has heightened interest in resolving climate-fire relationships. Macroscale climate-fire relationships were examined…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Gorte
Headwaters Economics produced this report to better understand and address why wildfires are becoming more severe and expensive. The report also describes how the protection of homes in the Wildland-Urban Interface has added to these costs and…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Gibson, Youberg, Stamer
Between February and July, 2011, over 360,000 acres burned across the Coronado National Forest during one of the most active fire seasons in recorded history. Burned Area Emergency Response (BAER) Teams evaluated post-fire watershed conditions and…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Darran
For this fire season and beyond, we need to resolve to change our air tanker policies.
Year: 2013
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
de Groot, Flannigan, Stocks
Wildland fire regimes are primarily driven by climate/weather, fuels and people. All of these factors are dynamic and their variable interactions create a mosaic of fire regimes around the world. Climate change will have a substantial impact on…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Morris, Brunelle, DeRose, Seppa, Power, Carter, Bares
Paleoenvironmental reconstructions are important for understanding the influence of long-term climate variability on ecosystems and landscape disturbance dynamics. In this paper we explore the linkages among past climate, vegetation, and fire…
Year: 2013
Type: Document