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Missing the mark: Effectiveness and funding in community wildfire risk reduction
Dale, Barrett
[Executive Summary] Wildfire risk has many dimensions – for example, fires can impact ecosystems and wildlife, and smoke increases greenhouse gas emissions. However, this research report is narrowly focused on the effectiveness of specific…
Year: 2023
Type: Document

Fire-driven animal evolution in the Pyrocene
Jones, Goldberg, Wilcox, Buckley, Parr, Linck, Fountain, Schwartz
Fire regimes are a major agent of evolution in terrestrial animals. Changing fire regimes and the capacity for rapid evolution in wild animal populations suggests the potential for rapid, fire-driven adaptive animal evolution in the Pyrocene. Fire…
Year: 2023
Type: Document

Integrating sensory ecology and predator-prey theory to understand animal responses to fire
Michel, Johnson, Szeligowski, Ritchie, Sih
Fire regimes are changing dramatically worldwide due to climate change, habitat conversion, and the suppression of Indigenous landscape management. Although there has been extensive work on plant responses to fire, including their adaptations to…
Year: 2023
Type: Document

Community responses to fire: a global meta-analysis unravels the contrasting responses of fauna to fire
Moyo
Globally, wildfires and prescribed fires are becoming more prevalent and are known to affect plant and animals in diverse ecosystems. Understanding the responses of animal communities to fire is a central issue in conservation and a panacea to…
Year: 2022
Type: Document

Invasive Annual Grasses Management
Burgiel, Bauer, Franklin, Maestas
Invasive annual grasses pose ecological and economic challenges for invasive species managers and agricultural producers across the West. On this Working Lands, Working Communities Initiative webinar, speakers will examine management tools and…
Year: 2022
Type: Media

Using wildfire as a management strategy to restore resiliency to ponderosa pine forests in the southwestern United States
Young, Ager, Thode
The long-term outcome from accelerated forest restoration using resource objective wildfire in combination with fuel management on fire-excluded landscapes is not well studied. We used simulation modeling to examine long-term trade-offs and…
Year: 2022
Type: Document

Conserving Wildlife under Changing Fire Regimes
Jones
This seminar is part of the USFS Missoula Fire Lab Seminar Series. Fire regimes are changing. What will this mean for wildlife? In the face of rapid environmental changes, animals have three choices: adapt, move, or die. Wildlife responses to…
Year: 2022
Type: Media

Short-term benefits of prescribed fire to bird communities of dry forests
Saab, Latif, Block, Dudley
Background Low-severity prescribed fire is an important tool to manage fire-maintained forests across North America. In dry conifer forests of the western USA, prescribed fire is often used to reduce fuel loads in forests characterized historically…
Year: 2022
Type: Document

Fire Ecology and management of spotted knapweed, diffuse knapweed, and yellow starthistle – Research Brief
Innes
Spotted knapweed (Centaurea stoebe subsp. micranthos), diffuse knapweed (C. diffusa), and yellow starthistle (C. solstitialis) are nonnative, invasive forbs that can displace native plants, reduce native plant diversity, reduce native wildlife…
Year: 2022
Type: Document

Fire as a driver and mediator of predator-prey interactions
Doherty, Geary, Jolly, Macdonald, Miritis, Watchorn, Cherry, Conner, González, Legge, Ritchie, Stawski, Dickman
Both fire and predators have strong influences on the population dynamics and behaviour of animals, and the effects of predators may either be strengthened or weakened by fire. However, knowledge of how fire drives or mediates predator–prey…
Year: 2022
Type: Document