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Trends, impacts, and cost of catastrophic and frequent wildfires in the sagebrush biome
Crist, Belger, Davies, Davis, Meldrum, Shinneman, Remington, Welty, Mayer
Fire regimes in sagebrush (Artemisia spp.) ecosystems have been greatly altered across the western United States. Broad-scale invasion of non-native annual grasses, climate change, and human activities have accelerated wildfire cycles, increased…
Year: 2023
Type: Document

Full-Cost Accounting Remeasurement of the 2010 Schultz Fire – Understanding the Long-term Socio-Economic Implications of High-Severity Wildfire and Post-Wildfire Flooding
Colavito, Hjerpe, Edgeley
The 2010 Schultz Fire was ignited by an abandoned campfire on June 20 and burned 15,075 acres northeast of Flagstaff, Arizona. Following the fire, intense monsoon rains over the burned area produced flooding that resulted in extensive damage. In…
Year: 2021
Type: Media

The Effects of Prescribed Fire on Wildfire Regimes and Impacts
Hunter
Prescribed fire can result in significant benefits to ecosystems and society. Examples include improved wildlife habitat, enhanced biodiversity, reduced threat of destructive wildfire, and enhanced ecosystem resilience. Prescribed fire can also come…
Year: 2021
Type: Media

Integration of Fire Ecology and the Bioeconomy into Wildfire Management
Faivre, Amoako, Bird, Conedera
Sparking FireSmart Policies in the EU: The Importance of an Integrated Fire Management Approach - Nicolas Faivre, Policy Officer, DG Research and Innovation (RTD), European Commission, Belgium The presentation will introduce the recent EU policy…
Year: 2020
Type: Media

A framework for evaluating forest restoration alternatives and their outcomes, over time, to inform monitoring: bioregional inventory originated simulation under management
Fried, Jain, Loreno, Keefe, Bell
The BioSum modeling framework summarizes current and prospective future forest conditions under alternative management regimes along with their costs, revenues and product yields. BioSum translates Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) data for input…
Year: 2017
Type: Document

Grasslands, wetlands, and agriculture: the fate of land expiring from the Conservation Reserve Program in the Midwestern United States
Morefield, LeDuc, Clark, Iovanna
The Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) is the largest agricultural land-retirement program in the United States, providing many environmental benefits, including wildlife habitat and improved air, water, and soil quality. Since 2007, however, CRP…
Year: 2016
Type: Document

Restoring the sustainability of frequent-fire forests of the Rocky Mountain West
Covington, Vosick
The ecological, social, and economic sustainability of the Rocky Mountain West is threatened by declining forest health that is manifested by unnaturally high tree densities and fuel loads, increases in invasive exotic plants, decreasing biological…
Year: 2016
Type: Document

Valuing fire planning alternatives in forest restoration: using derived demand to integrate economics with ecological restoration
Rideout, Ziesler, Kernohan
Assessing the value of fire planning alternatives is challenging because fire affects a wide array of ecosystem, market, and social values. Wildland fire management is increasingly used to address forest restoration while pragmatic approaches to…
Year: 2014
Type: Document

Integrating social, economic, and ecological values across large landscapes
Halofsky, Creutzburg, Hemstrom
The Integrated Landscape Assessment Project (ILAP) was a multiyear effort to produce information, maps, and models to help land managers, policymakers, and others conduct mid- to broad-scale (e.g., watersheds to states and larger areas)…
Year: 2014
Type: Document

What's a quail worth? A longitudinal assessment of quail hunter demographics, attitudes, and spending habits in Texas
Johnson, Rollins, Reyna
Funds generated and spent on the pursuit of quail (Colinus virginianus, Callipepla squamata) hunting in Texas are sizable. We surveyed a population of quail hunters in Texas in 2000 and 2011 to assess hunter demographics and spending habits. The…
Year: 2012
Type: Document