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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
McCumber, King
Should you help a wild rabbit fleeing a wall of flame? What is our responsibility to wildlife affected by wildfire? This paper focuses on two cases of ad hoc public aid to wildlife that occurred during California's 2017 'Thomas Fire' and were…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
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
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
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
Huffman
I examined the hypothesis that traditional social-ecological fire systems around the world include common elements of traditional fire knowledge (TFK). I defined TFK as fire-related knowledge, beliefs, and practices that have been developed and…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Loomis, González-Cabán
The need for monetary benefits of protecting spotted owl old-growth forest habitat from fire in the early 1990s was the catalyst for application of nonmarket valuation techniques to fire management within the US Forest Service. Two large-scale…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Ryon, Hamin
Salvage logging, the removal for profit of standing trees that have been damaged by extensive wildfires, has been quite controversial and subject to lawsuits that can delay the logging past the time in which the lumber is still useful. It has not…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Gottfried, Allen, Warren, McDonald, Bemis, Edminster
Fires caused by lightning or Native Americans were the major ecological factor in the borderlands region of Arizona, New Mexico, and Mexico prior to European settlement. Historical overgrazing and aggressive fire suppression have led to the…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Weir
Landowners and managers, municipalities, the logging and livestock industries, and conservation professionals all increasingly recognize that setting prescribed fires may reduce the devastating effects of wildfire, control invasive brush and weeds,…
Year: 2009
Type: Document