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Granda, Leon, Vitoriano, Hearne
Wildfires are recurrent natural events that have been increasing in frequency and severity in recent decades. They threaten human lives and damage ecosystems and infrastructure, leading to high recovery costs. To address the issue of wildfires,…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Greenberg, Collins, Goodrick, Stambaugh, Wein
Fire has, does, and will shape forest structure, composition, and biodi-versity. In this book, we introduce the driving forces, historical patterns, and future management challenges of fire in forested ecoregions across the continental USA. Climate…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
McClain, Ruffner, Ebinger, Spyreas
We conducted literature searches of records from Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, North Dakota, Ohio, and Wisconsin to create a source bibliography of wildland fire descriptions occurring between 1673 and 1905. A total of 795 landscape…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Roos, Toya, Galvan
As residential development continues into flammable landscapes, wildfires increasingly threaten homes, lives, and livelihoods in the wildland–urban interface (WUI). Although this problem seems distinctly modern, Native American communities have…
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Merrick, Morandini, Greer, Koprowski
Drought, past fire suppression, insect invasion, and high-severity fire represent a disturbance cascade characteristic of forests in the western United States. The result is altered forest ecosystems diminished in their function and capacity to…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Qiu, Hansard, Kumar, Thakur, Judi, Corbiani, Armijo, Myers
The National Laboratories showcase their wildfire mitigation capabilities and technologies in this Wildfire Mitigation Webinar Series. Whether it’s a fire created by utility equipment or an oncoming fire that is threatening a utility company’s…
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Flanagan
This webinar will review recent research led by Duke University investigating the impacts of fire on peatland ecosystems. Severe wildfires can cause smoldering ground fires that oxidize entire carbon stores and threaten peatlands around the globe.…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Carswell, Haffey, Allen
Part of the Hot and Dry Podcast Series by Cally Carswell and Collin Haffey, supported by the Southwest Fire Science Consortium.
There is no single definition of what makes a single fire the “big one.” But there are some common factors: extreme fire…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Margolis, Malevich
Anthropogenic alteration of ecosystem processes confounds forest management and conservation of rare, declining species. Restoration of forest structure and fire hazard reduction are central goals of forest management policy in the western United…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Block
The Mexican spotted owl was listed in 1993 as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act. The primary reasons for the listing were timber harvest practices thought to be deleterious to the owl and the lack of regulatory mechanisms to…
Year: 2012
Type: Media