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Rowe, Lata, Munson, Sinclair
The fire regime of dry desert systems, such as the Sonoran, historically consisted of infrequent, low intensity, size-limited fires. Native grasses and other vegetation, which grow in clumps and patches, are typically not contiguous enough to carry…
Year: 2023
Type: Media
Stevens
The increasing incidence of large wildfires with extensive stand-replacing effects across the southwestern United States is altering the contemporary forest management template within historically frequent-fire conifer forests. While management of…
Year: 2022
Type: Media
Wilder, Jarnevich, Baldwin, Black, Franklin, Grissom, Hovanes, Olsson, Malusa, Kibria, Li, Lien, Ponce, Rowe, Soto, Stahl, Young, Betancourt
In the southwestern United States, non-native grass invasions have increased wildfire occurrence in deserts and the likelihood of fire spread to and from other biomes with disparate fire regimes. The elevational transition between desertscrub and…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Stephens, Battaglia, Churchill, Collins, Coppoletta, Hoffman, Lydersen, North, Parsons, Ritter, Stevens
For over 20 years, forest fuel reduction has been the dominant management action in western US forests. These same actions have also been associated with the restoration of highly altered frequent-fire forests. Perhaps the vital element in the…
Year: 2021
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
Moritz, Topik, Allen, Hessburg, Morgan, Odion, Veblen, McCullough
For millennia, wildfires have markedly influenced forests and non-forested landscapes of the western United States (US), and they are increasingly seen as having substantial impacts on society and nature. There is growing concern over what kinds and…
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Huffman, Sánchez Meador, Stoddard, Crouse, Roccaforte
Current conditions in dry forests of the western United State have given rise to policy mandates for accelerated ecological restoration on U.S. National Forest System and other public lands. In southwestern ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa Laws.)…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Koprowski, Merrick
Intensified forest disturbance from frequent and often severe wildfires has driven increased proactive fuel management in the form of thinning and prescribed fire in an effort to reduce fuels, maintain ecosystem functioning, and protect wildlife…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Kennedy, Johnson
Fuel reduction treatments are implemented in the forest surrounding the wildland-urban interface (WUI) to provide defensible space and safe opportunity for the protection of homes during a wildfire. The 2011 Wallow Fire in Arizona USA burned through…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
O'Connor, Falk, Lynch, Swetnam
In recent decades fire size and severity have been increasing in high elevation forests of the American Southwest. Ecological outcomes of these increases are difficult to gauge without an historical context for the role of fire in these systems…
Year: 2014
Type: Document