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Integrating wildfire spread and evacuation times to design safe triggers: application to two rural communities using PERIL model
Mitchell, Gwynne, Ronchi, Kalogeropoulos, Rein
The hazards posed by a wildfire increase significantly when it approaches the wildland–urban interface. Evacuation of rural communities is frequently considered by local authorities and residents. In this context, evacuation triggers are locations…
Year: 2023
Type: Document

Fires, Forest Management, and the Future of New Mexico’s Endemic Salamanders
Loehman, Karraker
Uncharacteristically severe and frequent wildfires represent a significant threat to populations of two amphibian species of conservation concern in New Mexico: the Jemez Mountains salamander (Plethodon neomexicanus; Federal…
Year: 2023
Type: Media

Decision support models and methodologies for fire suppression
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

Consequential lightning-caused wildfires and the "let burn" narrative
Pietruszka, Young, Short, St. Denis, Thompson, Calkin
Background: Current guidance for implementation of United States federal wildland fire policy charges agencies with restoring and maintaining fire-adapted ecosystems while limiting the extent of wildfires that threaten life and property, weighed…
Year: 2023
Type: Document

Climate change vulnerability assessments in the National Park Service: An integrated review for infrastructure, natural resources, and cultural resources (revised)
Climate changes are affecting virtually all National Park Service units and resources, and an assessment of climate vulnerabilities is important for developing proactive management plans to respond appropriately to these changes and threats.…
Year: 2022
Type: Document

Priorities and effectiveness in wildfire management: evidence from fire spread in the western United States
Plantinga, Walsh, Wibbenmeyer
Costs of fighting wildfires have increased substantially over the past several decades. Yet surprisingly little is known about the effectiveness of wildfire suppression or how wildfire incident managers prioritize resources threatened within a…
Year: 2022
Type: Document

Soldiers in the garden: managing the US military training landscape
Rabung, Toman
Despite a reputation for destruction, militaries across the world may maintain important biological natural resources that are key to achieving global biodiversity conservation goals. On lands used by militaries for soldier training, numerous rare…
Year: 2022
Type: Document

A systematic review of applications of machine learning techniques for wildfire management decision support
Bot, Borges
Wildfires threaten and kill people, destroy urban and rural property, degrade air quality, ravage forest ecosystems, and contribute to global warming. Wildfire management decision support models are thus important for avoiding or mitigating the…
Year: 2022
Type: Document

Network governance in the use of prescribed fire: roles for bridging organizations and other actors in the Western United States
Huber-Stearns, Santo, Schultz, McCaffrey
Dangerous wildfire conditions continue to threaten people and ecosystems across the globe and cooperation is critical to meeting the outsized need for increased prescribed burning in wildfire risk reduction work. Despite the benefits…
Year: 2021
Type: Document

Can Landscape Fuel Treatments Enhance both Protection and Resource Management Objectives?
Vogler
Land management agencies in the U.S. Departments of Interior and Agriculture can potentially accomplish ecological resource management objectives using unplanned wildfires, but only if such fires do not otherwise threaten to damage valuable…
Year: 2021
Type: Media