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Balch, Schoennagel, Williams, Abatzoglou, Cattau, Mietkiewicz, St. Denis
Fuel, aridity, and ignition switches were all on in 2017, making it one of the largest and costliest wildfire years in the United States (U.S.) since national reporting began. Anthropogenic climate change helped flip on some of these switches…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Evans
Please join us for a webinar to review last year’s fires and look ahead toward conditions for this year. Dr. Zander Evans will present an overview of the largest fires in the Southwest during 2017. He will share summaries of forest types and burn…
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Schoennagel, Godwin, Miller
The combination of frequent droughts, changing climate conditions, and longer fire seasons along with urban development expansion into wildland areas has resulted in more difficult conditions for managing wildfires. Wildfires are causing more…
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Toombs, Weber
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: 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
Luce, Holden, Jolly
It’s not solely an ignition event, whether a lightning strike or unattended campfire, that causes a wildfire. Fire ecology research over the past three decades has revealed that environmental drivers, such as snow pack, fuels availability, and…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Innes
This synthesis summarizes information available in the scientific literature on historical patterns and contemporary changes in fuels and fire regimes in mountain big sagebrush communities. This literature suggests that presettlement fires in the…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Managers and owners of forests across the Nation face urgent challenges, among them catastrophic wildfires, invasive species, drought, and epidemics of forest insects and disease. Of particular concern are longer fire seasons and the rising size and…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Holden, Swanson, Luce, Jolly, Maneta, Oyler, Warren, Parsons, Affleck
Western United States wildfire increases have been generally attributed to warming temperatures, either through effects on winter snowpack or summer evaporation. However, near-surface air temperature and evaporative demand are strongly influenced by…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Parks
With drought across much of the southern and western States, it’s shaping up to be another record year for wildfires. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, May 2018 was the fourth-worst May since 2000 in terms of U.S.…
Year: 2018
Type: Document