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Wan, Cushman, Ganey
Background: Fire size and severity have increased in the western United States in recent decades, and are expected to continue to increase with warming climate. Habitats for many species are threatened by large and high-severity fires, but the…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Loehman, Keane, Holsinger
Complex, reciprocal interactions among climate, disturbance, and vegetation dramatically alter spatial landscape patterns and influence ecosystem dynamics. As climate and disturbance regimes shift, historical analogs and past empirical studies may…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Al Abri, Grogan
The dramatic increase in the number of uncontrollable wildfires in the United States has become an important policy issue as they threaten valuable forests and human property. The derived stochastic dynamic model of this study is capable of…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Sesnie, Dickson, Johnson, Sisk
Prescribed fire plays a vital role in restoring vegetation and fuel bed conditions characteristic of frequent fire regimes in southwestern semidesert grasslands. Nevertheless, fire management activities implemented at local- to landscape-scales must…
Year: 2019
Type: Project
Allison
Carrie Allison's (US Fish and Wildlife Service) presentation to the 2019 Fire in Eastern Oak Forests Conference in State College, PA.
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Aslan, Sandor, Souther
Arizona’s Sonoran Desert is home to unique species, sites of immense cultural and historical value, and more than 5 million people. This sensitive region is also threatened by a changing fire regime, spurred by climate change, long-term drought, and…
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Mueller
Over the last 30 years, in woodland and forested ecosystems across the southwestern US, there has been an increasing trend in fire activity. Altered land use practices and more recent changes in precipitation patterns and warmer temperatures are…
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Allbee, Krasilovsky
Over a century of fire exclusion and suppression has led to negative impacts for fire-adapted ecosystems across New Mexico through the increasing prevalence of uncharacteristically large and severe fires that threaten lives, property, forests,…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Jolly, Butler, Page, Freeborn
Wildland firefighters in the United States (US) are exposed to a variety of hazards while performing their jobs in America’s wildlands. Although the threats posed by vehicle accidents, aircraft mishaps and heart attacks claim the most lives (Figure…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
McCullough, Cheruvelil, Lapierre, Lottig, Moritz, Stachelek, Soranno
Wildfires are becoming larger and more frequent across much of the United States due to anthropogenic climate change. No studies, however, have assessed fire prevalence in lake watersheds at broad spatial and temporal scales, and thus it is unknown…
Year: 2019
Type: Document