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The REBURN Model: Simulating Forest and Fuel Succession and Disturbance Dynamics of Large Landscapes
Prichard, Hessburg
The landscape of eastern Washington, USA is comprised of common temperate forest and nonforest vegetation types distributed along broad topo-edaphic gradients. This landscape acts as the large testbed for presenters Susan Prichard and Paul Hessburg…
Year: 2024
Type: Media

How Wildfire Policies Governing Management of Natural Ignitions Have Evolved Over the Past Century
Franz
The topic of “managed wildfire” is mired in complexity, starting with what to call it. This fire management approach has been known as “prescribed natural fire,” “wildland fire use,” “resource objective fire,” and more. All names refer to the same…
Year: 2023
Type: Media

Will They Survive? Management Solutions to Increase the Resilience of High-elevation 5-needle Pine Forests to Climate Change, Pests, and Pathogens
Schoettle, Keane, Bentz, Goeking, Jenkins
Presentation as part of the Science You Can Use Spring 2023 Webinar Series by Anna Schoettle, Research Plant Ecophysiologist, Rocky Mountain Research Station and Bob Keane, Emeritus Scientist, Rocky Mountain Research Station. .
Year: 2023
Type: Media

Fire Across the Grasslands – What Are We Managing For?
Drobney, Londe, Garrett, Spencer, Symstad
Grasslands in the Great Plains and Midwest are at constant risk from invasion by woody species. Conversion to deciduous woodlands and forests is already widespread in the Midwest and the southern Great Plains. This discussion focuses on the many…
Year: 2023
Type: Media

SCIENCE x Fire: Modeling Risk and Trade-offs
Stevens, Dillon, Manley, Povak, Nepal
Introduction to SCIENCE x Day 4, brief overview by Jens StevensDelivering wildfire risk information targeted to the community level, presented by Greg DillonJuggling risks and tradeoffs toward a more resilient future: the known, unknown, unknowable…
Year: 2023
Type: Media

ScienceX Webinar Series
The SCIENCEx webinar series brings together scientists and land management experts from across U.S. Forest Service research stations and beyond to explore the latest science and best practices for addressing large natural resource challenges across…
Year: 2023
Type: Media

Wildfire and Climate Change Adaptation of Western North American Forests: A Case for Proactive Management
Prichard, Hagmann, Hessburg
Climate change and wildfires pose an existential threat to western North American forests, a reality which necessitates place-based strategies to increase their resilience – if forests are to be widely conserved. EuroAmerican colonization,…
Year: 2023
Type: Media

Increasing Post-Wildfire Planted Seedling Survival
Marsh
Across the southwestern United States, high-severity wildfire is resulting in increasingly large areas of tree mortality, removing the seed sources required for natural regeneration of historically conifer-dominated landscapes. Planting tree…
Year: 2023
Type: Media

Landscape Fuel Treatment Effectiveness
Jain, Hood, McKinney, Ott, Urza
Maximizing the effectiveness of fuel treatments at the landscape scale is a key research and management need given the inability to treat all areas at risk from wildfire, and there is a growing body of scientific literature assessing this need.…
Year: 2023
Type: Media

More Fire, More People, Less Water: Exploring Wildfire Risks to Water Security in a Changing World
Robinne
Learn about: how forests contribute to water security; how fire, forests, and humans interact to impact water security; what is the state of wildfire-watershed risk research in Canada; and, what are the tools, methods, and data available to advance…
Year: 2022
Type: Media