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Stahl, Andrus, Hicke, Hudak, Bright, Meddens
Remote sensing is widely used to detect forest disturbances (e.g., wildfires, harvest, or outbreaks of pathogens or insects) over spatiotemporal scales that are infeasible to capture with field surveys. To understand forest ecosystem dynamics and…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Marsh
Across the southwestern United States, high-severity wildfire is resulting in increasingly large areas of tree mortality, removing the seed sources required for natural regeneration of historically conifer-dominated landscapes. Planting tree…
Year: 2023
Type: Media
Donager, Sánchez Meador, Huffman
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Managers aiming to utilize wildland fire to restore southwestern ponderosa pine landscapes require better understanding of forest cover patterns produced at multiple scales. Restoration effectiveness of wildland fires managed for resource…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
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
de Almeida Pereira, Fusioka, Nassu, Minetto
Active fire detection in satellite imagery is of critical importance to the management of environmental conservation policies, supporting decision-making and law enforcement. This is a well established field, with many techniques being proposed over…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Schroeder, Schleeweis, Moisen, Toney, Cohen, Freeman, Yang, Huang
In light of Earth's changing climate and growing human population, there is an urgent need to improve monitoring of natural and anthropogenic disturbances which effect forests' ability to sequester carbon and provide other ecosystem services. In…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Efficacy of Resource Objective Wildfires for Restoring Ponderosa Pine Ecosystems in Northern Arizona
HuffmanHistorical interruption of frequent surface fire regimes and decades of fire exclusion have resulted in degraded ecological conditions in ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) forests of the American Southwest. Presently, there is much interest in…
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Fulé, Haffey, Iniguez, Youtz, Mast, Owen
A panel perspective on regeneration in Southwest pine forests after high severity wildfire --The Southwest Fire Science Consortium is hosting a panel discussion on regeneration of pine forests after high severity wildfires. Recent fires such as the…
Year: 2014
Type: Media
Roccaforte
Portions of mixed conifer forests have undergone changes in disturbance regimes, species composition, and forest structure since European settlement and have been impacted by recent landscape-scale fires which have burned large patches with high…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Huffman
Pinyon-juniper ecosystems presently occur on approximately 50 million acres across the semi-arid landscapes of the western United States. Infrequent, stand-replacing fires characterize both historical and modern fire regimes in southwestern pinyon-…
Year: 2013
Type: Document