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The Wildfire Research (WiRē) Center is a nonprofit organization that works with wildfire practitioners seeking pathways to create fire adapted communities. Historically, immediate threats and wildfire response have garnered much attention and…
Type: Program
Cushman, Ganey, Sesnie
Many forests in the western United States are at high risk of stand-replacing fire. To reduce that risk, land managers are implementing fuels reduction and forest restoration projects across increasingly larger areas. The effects of such treatments…
Type: Project
Friedrich, Lundquist
Strong and variable winds in thunderstorm outflow boundaries interact with wildland fires, often spreading flames faster to threaten firefighter safety and amplify economical destruction. These boundaries are difficult to detect in complex terrain…
Type: Project
The US Forest Service, Forest Health Protection (FHP) Whitebark Pine Restoration Program was developed in 2006, the first and only restoration program with dedicated funding for whitebark pine. The initiative resulted in part from a health…
Type: Website
Wildland fires are a force of nature that can be nearly as impossible to prevent, and as difficult to control, as hurricanes, tornadoes, and floods.
Wildland fire can be a friend and a foe. In the right place at the right time, wildland fire can…
Type: Website
NatureServe is a network connecting science with conservation. Providing the scientific basis for effective conservation, NatureServe and its network of natural heritage programs are the trusted source for information about rare and endangered…
Type: Website
The National Fire Plan was developed in August 2000, following a landmark wildland fire season, with the intent of actively responding to severe wildland fires and their impacts to communities while ensuring sufficient firefighting capacity for the…
Type: Website
FireDirect is mapping software that provides GIS capabilities for agencies fighting fires in the Wildland/Urban Interface. The software allows the users to collect structure and water source information on palm computers, view structure information…
Type: Tool
The USDA Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station is leading the effort to examine fire effects on populations and habitats of wildlife in ponderosa pine forests in eight states across the western United States. In cooperation with 14 National…
Type: Project