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Jones, Clément, Latimer, Wright, Sanderlin, Hedwall, Kirby
Changing fire regimes have the potential to threaten wildlife populations and communities. Understanding species’ responses to novel fire regimes is critical to formulating effective management and conservation strategies in an era of rapid change.…
Year: 2024
Type: Document
Coffey, Pomara, Mackey, Wood
Giant reed (Arundo donax) is a prevalent invasive plant in desert riparian ecosystems that threatens wildlife habitat. From 2008 to 2018, under a United States–Mexico partnership, prescribed burns and herbicide applications were used to remove giant…
Year: 2023
Type: Document
Bousquet, Mialon, Rodriguez-Fernandez, Mermoz, Kerr
Anthropogenic climate change is now considered to be one of the main factors causing an increase in both the frequency and severity of wildfires. These fires are prone to release substantial quantities of CO2 into the atmosphere and to endanger…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Tarbox, Van Schmidt, Shyvers, Saher, Heinrichs, Aldridge
Invasions of native plant communities by non-native species present major challenges for ecosystem management and conservation. Invasive annual grasses such as cheatgrass, medusahead, and ventenata are pervasive and continue to expand their…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Sesnie, Johnson, Yurcich, Sisk, Goodwin, Chester
The increased variety and availability of remotely sensed data from satellite and airborne platforms are expected to enhance data fusion approaches aimed at characterizing wildlife habitat. We investigated multisensor machine learning (ML) models to…
Year: 2022
Type: Document
Remington, Deibert, Hanser, Davis, Robb, Welty
The sagebrush (Artemisia spp.) biome, its wildlife, and the services and benefits it provides people and local communities are at risk. Development in the sagebrush biome, for many purposes, has resulted in multiple and often cumulative negative…
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
Grover
Wildfires in the southwestern US are getting larger, more frequent, and more severe due to changing climatic conditions like rising temperatures and prolonged drought (Singleton et al. 2018, Mueller et al. 2020). Catastrophic wildfire events…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Gaskin, Espeland, Johnson, Larson, Mangold, McGee, Milner, Paudel, Pearson, Perkins, Prosser, Runyon, Sing, Sylvain, Symstad, Tekiela
The Great Plains of North America encompass approximately 1,300,000 km2 of land from Texas to Saskatchewan. The integrity of these lands is under continual assault by long-established and newly-arrived invasive plant species, which can threaten…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Wyden, Fan, Wigmosta, Coleman, Zhu, Negron-Juarez, Romps, Riley, Wang, Judi
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