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Monitoring and Removal of Invasive Grasses for Restoration of Dry Desert Systems
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

Increasing Post-Wildfire Planted Seedling Survival
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

Postfire Landscape Management in Frequent-Fire Conifer Forests of the Southwestern US
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

Fire X Fauna Webinar: Spotted Owls x Fire
Lesmeister, Jones, Ganey
Part of the FIRE x FAUNA: Wildfire and Prescribed Fire Effects on Wildlife series sponsored by Forest Service Research and Development Quantification of wildfire severity in forests for northern spotted owls, Damon Lesmeister, Research Wildlife…
Year: 2020
Type: Media

Contributions of Fire Refugia to Resilient Ponderosa Pine and Dry Mixed-conifer Forest Landscapes
Coop
In western North America, ponderosa pine and dry mixed-conifer forest types appear increasingly vulnerable to wildfire-catalyzed conversion to alternate and non-forest vegetation types. However, unburned or only lightly impacted forest stands that…
Year: 2019
Type: Media

Fire Severity and Regeneration Strategy Influence Shrub Patch Size and Structure
Minor
Shrub species demonstrate flexible responses to wildfire disturbance severity that are reflected in shrub patch dynamics at small and intermediate scales. Prior research has examined the dynamics and persistence of large shrub patches on the…
Year: 2018
Type: Media

Efficacy of Resource Objective Wildfires for Restoring Ponderosa Pine Ecosystems in Northern Arizona
Huffman
Historical 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

Is there such a thing as too much fire?
Iniguez
Presentation at 3rd SW Fire Ecology Conference & 1st Applied Fire Science Workshop in Tucson, Arizona.
Year: 2016
Type: Media

High Severity Fire: Response and Uncertainty
Iniguez, Hedwall, Sieg, Hunter
Do high severity burns lead to conversion to new forest types or a shift from forests to shrublands or grasslands? How do wildlife respond to changing habitats? And, finally, what do these changes tell us about how these ecosystems will respond to…
Year: 2016
Type: Media

Changes in Severity Distribution after Subsequent Fires on the North Rim of Grand Canyon National Park
Hoff
This seminar is part of the USFS Missoula Fire Lab Seminar Series. Understanding the distribution of fire severity patches across a landscape is of critical importance to managers and researchers. Of particular interest are those areas that burn…
Year: 2014
Type: Media