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Nemens, Varner, Johnson
The practice of removing fire-killed trees from burned forests (or “postfire salvage logging”) has sparked public controversy and scientific debate when conducted on public lands in the United States. This review synthesizes the current scientific…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Biochar is an emerging new industry that is dependent on consistent supplies of biomass feedstocks. Woody debris is an ideal biochar feedstock that can be used even in existing biomass boilers and furnaces to produce biochar. Most of the recent…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Allbee, Krasilovsky
Over a century of fire exclusion and suppression has led to negative impacts for fire-adapted ecosystems across New Mexico through the increasing prevalence of uncharacteristically large and severe fires that threaten lives, property, forests,…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
The sagebrush (Artemisia spp.) ecosystem extends across a large portion of the Western United States. Affected by multiple stressors, including interactions among fire, exotic plant invasions, and human land uses, this ecosystem has experienced…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
The Great Plains Grassland Summit: Challenges and Opportunities from North to South was held April 10-11, 2018 in Denver, Colorado to provide syntheses of information about key grassland topics of interest in the Great Plains; networking and…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Hessburg, Miller, Parks, Povak, Taylor, Higuera, Prichard, North, Collins, Hurteau, Larson, Allen, Stephens, Rivera-Huerta, Stevens-Rumann, Daniels, Gedalof, Gray, Kane, Churchill, Hagmann, Spies, Cansler, Belote, Veblen, Battaglia, Hoffman, Skinner, Safford, Salter
Before the advent of intensive forest management and fire suppression, western North American forests exhibited a naturally occurring resistance and resilience to wildfires and other disturbances. Resilience, which encompasses resistance, reflects…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Roerick, Cain, Gedir
Decades of fire suppression, logging, and overgrazing have led to increased densities of small diameter trees which have been associated with decreases in biodiversity, reduced habitat quality for wildlife species, degraded foraging conditions for…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Keefe, Wempe, Becker, Zimbelman, Nagler, Gilbert, Caudill
In this paper, we provide an overview of positioning systems for moving resources in forest and fire management and review the related literature. Emphasis is placed on the accuracy and range of different localization and location-sharing methods,…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Martinuzzi, Allstadt, Pidgeon, Flather, Jolly, Radeloff
Public lands provide many ecosystem services and support diverse plant and animal communities. In order to provide these benefits in the future, land managers and policy makers need information about future climate change and its potential effects.…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Pausas, Keeley
Wildfires are often perceived as destructive disturbances, but we propose that when integrating evolutionary and socioecological factors, fires in most ecosystems can be understood as natural processes that provide a variety of benefits to humankind…
Year: 2019
Type: Document