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Fire and tree death: understanding and improving modeling of fire-induced tree mortality
Hood, Varner, van Mantgem, Cansler
Each year wildland fires kill and injure trees on millions of forested hectares globally, affecting plant and animal biodiversity, carbon storage, hydrologic processes, and ecosystem services. The underlying mechanisms of fire-caused tree mortality…
Year: 2018
Type: Document

Rangeland Analysis Platform: Introducing a Free, Online Tool to Help Manage and Monitor Western Rangelands
Allred, Jones
The Rangeland Analysis Platform (RAP) is a free, online tool that helps landowners and natural resource managers track vegetation through time and plan actions to improve America's grazing lands. The RAP can be used to provide strategies to improve…
Year: 2018
Type: Media

Bridging the divide: integrating animal and plant paradigms to secure the future of biodiversity in fire-prone ecosystems
Kelly, Brotons, Giljohann, McCarthy, Pausas, Smith
Conserving animals and plants in fire-prone landscapes requires evidence of how fires affect modified ecosystems. Despite progress on this front, fire ecology is restricted by a dissonance between two dominant paradigms: ‘fire mosaics’ and ‘…
Year: 2018
Type: Document

In-situ and remote sensing platforms for mapping fine-fuels and fuel-types in Sonoran semi-desert grasslands
Sesnie, Eagleston, Johnson, Yurcich
Fire has historically played an important role in shaping the structure and composition of Sonoran semi-desert grassland vegetation. Yet, human use and land management activities have significantly altered arid grassland ecosystems over the last…
Year: 2018
Type: Document

Resources for predicting and mitigating smoke impacts of wildland fires
Stotts, Lahm, Standish
Fire managers use prescribed fire and some wildfires to meet resource management objectives, like restoring and maintaining ecological processes, watershed function, and wildlife habitat, as well as to reduce fuels and mitigate the risk of severe…
Year: 2018
Type: Document

Northern Arizona, USA, post-wildfire avian data: western bluebird detection/non-detection and banding data
Western bluebird (Sialia mexicana) population data were collected in northern Arizona, USA, following two wildfires (Hochderferr Fire, Horseshoe Fire) that occurred in May and June 1996. This is a data subset consisting of 8 years of bird data…
Year: 2018
Type: Data

Determining prescribed fire and fuel treatment compatibility with semi-desert grassland habitat rehabilitation for the critically endangered masked bobwhite quail (Colinus virginianus ridgwayi) - Final Report to the Joint Fire Science Program
Sesnie, Dickson
The Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge (BANWR) in southern Arizona was established in 1985 to provide habitat for threatened and endangered plant and animal species, with an emphasis on the critically endangered masked bobwhite quail (Colinus…
Year: 2018
Type: Document

Wildfire fuel management: network-based models and optimization of prescribed burning
Matsypura, Prokopyev, Zahar
Wildfires are a common phenomenon on most continents. They have occurred for an estimated 60 million years and are part of a regular climatic cycle. Nevertheless, wildfires represent a real and continuing problem that can have a major impact on…
Year: 2018
Type: Document

Scaling up Collaborative Restoration: What can be Learned from Participatory Landscape Simulation Modeling?
Spies, Davis
It is widely recognized that forest restoration needs to be scaled up to landscapes. We describe the findings from the project 'Go big or Go Home?' in the eastern Cascades of Oregon. The goals of the project were to analyze how forest collaboratives…
Year: 2018
Type: Media