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Wildfire probability estimated from recent climate and fine fuels across the big sagebrush region
Holdrege, Schlaepfer, Palmquist, Crist, Doherty, Lauenroth, Remington, Riley, Short, Tull, Wiechman, Bradford
Background: Wildfire is a major proximate cause of historical and ongoing losses of intact big sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata Nutt.) plant communities and declines in sagebrush obligate wildlife species. In recent decades, fire return intervals…
Year: 2024
Type: Document

Understanding interaction effects of climate change and fire management on bird distributions through combined process and habitat models
White, Gutzwiller, Barrow, Johnson-Randall, Zygo, Swint
Avian conservation efforts must account for changes in vegetation composition and structure associated with climate change. We modeled vegetation change and the probability of occurrence of birds to project changes in winter bird distributions…
Year: 2011
Type: Document

Broom snakeweed (Gutierrezia sarothrae): toxicoloy, ecology, control, and management
Ralphs, McDaniel
Broom snakeweed is a native weed widely distributed on rangelands of western North America. It often increases to near monocultures following disturbance from overgrazing, fire, or drought. This paper presents an up-to-date review of broom snakeweed…
Year: 2011
Type: Document

A model of gas mixing into single-entrance tree cavities during wildland fires
Bova, Bohrer, Dickinson
The level of protection to fauna provided by tree cavities during wildland fires is not well understood. Here we present a model for estimating the transport of combustion gases into cylindrical, single-entrance cavities during exposures caused by…
Year: 2011
Type: Document

Modeling landscape fire and wildlife habitat
Cushman, Wasserman, McGarigal
Global climate is expected to change rapidly over the next century (Thompson et al. 1998; Houghton et al. 2001; IPCC 2008). This will affect forest ecosystems both directly by altering biophysical conditions (Neilson 1995; Neilson and Drapek 1998;…
Year: 2011
Type: Document

A comparative risk assessment framework for wildland fire management: the 2010 cohesive strategy science report
Calkin, Ager, Thompson, Finney, Lee, Quigley, McHugh, Riley, Gilbertson-Day
The FLAME Act of 2009 requires the U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service and the U.S. Department of Interior to submit to Congress a Cohesive Wildfire Management Strategy. In this report, we explore the general science available for a risk-…
Year: 2011
Type: Document