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Barger, Hanan, Archuleta
Soils play an important role in our ecosystems. They provide essential nutrients and minerals to plants, are home to nitrogen fixing micro-organisms, and assist in the development of organic matter through decomposition. Scientists and land managers…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Zhuang, Rose
Prescribed fires are often used as part of a strategy for protecting forests from catastrophic wildfires. Based on agency reports, from 2003-2017 prescribed burns have been used on more than 40 million acres across the US. In this study, the…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Pyne
Humanity’s fire practices are creating the fire equivalent of an ice age. Our shift from burning living landscapes to burning lithic ones is affecting all aspects of Earth.
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Chow, Rosario-Ortiz, Kasprzyk
Detritus material in forest watersheds is the major terrestrial source of dissolved organic matter (DOM) and disinfection byproduct (DBP) precursors in water bodies used as drinking water sources and is also a fuel that can ignite wildfires. In…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Daley, Morris, Franz, Adams
As of mid-September 2020, forest fires across the West Coast of the United States had burned down 5 million acres of forests, destroying communities and producing some of the worst air quality on the planet. How can this disaster spur reforestation…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Brown, Saul
Isaac Saul of A Plus interviews Sara Brown, director of the USFS Fire Lab’s Fire, Fuels, and Smoke Sciences Program. Sara Brown explains how to stop wildfires from being major disaster events in the United States. The interview provides an overview…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Robichaud
What does the current research tell us about effective post-fire recovery?
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Moseley, Cheng, Davis, Bertone-Riggs
Wildfire has fundamentally shaped the western landscapes we seek to conserve. It is a source of renewal and central to the functioning of many ecosystems; as well as a destructive force that threatens communities and conservation values across…
Year: 2020
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
Abrams
Recent policies including the Cohesive Strategy and the 2012 NFMA planning rule emphasize restoration of landscape resilience as a way forward for living with fire on national forestlands. But what does resilience mean, what does it take to plan for…
Year: 2020
Type: Media