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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

Burning in the Black Range - Using Prescribed Fire on the Gila National Forest
A brief look at how the Black Range of the Gila National Forest goes about putting down thousands of acres of prescribed fire. See how the District works in a collaborative and productive manner while working within the multiple-use framework to…
Year: 2019
Type: Media

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

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

Immediate Post-Wildfire Effects on Bats in the Southwest
Saunders, Chambers
Ponderosa pine forests in the southwestern U.S. have increased in density over the last 100 years which has dramatically increased the size and frequency of wildfires. Although wildfires rarely kill animals, they have immediate consequences to bat…
Year: 2015
Type: Media

Effects of Wildland Fire on Lowland Leopard Frogs and their Habitat at Saguaro National Park
Swann
Large wildfires can have dramatic watershed effects, including sedimentation of aquatic habitat that have the potential to impact stream species such as fish and frogs. In arid systems it may take years, even decades, for sediments to wash out from…
Year: 2013
Type: Media

Implementing the Mexican Spotted Owl Revised Recovery Plan: Conducting Fire Management in Owl Habitat
Hedwall
The Mexican Spotted Owl Recovery Plan, First Revision, was released on December 17, 2012. The Recovery Team used the best available science to delineate actions we think are required to recover and protect the owl. This Recovery Plan presents…
Year: 2013
Type: Media

Characterizing Fuels for Fire and Fuel Management in the 21st Century
Ottmar
Fuels are often defined based on the physical characteristics of live and dead biomass that contribute to wildland fire. Because these characteristics affect the character, size, intensity, and duration of fires, fuels are important to the…
Year: 2012
Type: Media