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Working Lands for Wildlife (WLFW) invests in science to proactively target conservation investments and quantify outcomes. This report summarizes more than a decade of WLFW science’s current understanding of identified sagebrush biome threats on…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Sanderfoot, Bassing, Brusa, Emmet, Swift, Gardner
Climate change is intensifying global wildfire activity, and people and wildlife are increasingly exposed to hazardous air pollution during large-scale smoke events. Although wildfire smoke is considered a growing risk to public health, few studies…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Koprowski, Hefty
Wildfires are a natural occurrence which can be beneficial to forested ecosystems. With current threats such as climate change, bark beetle damage, invasive species, and fire suppression, the beneficial role of wildfire has been altered in many…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
This edited volume presents original scientific research and knowledge synthesis covering the past, present, and potential future fire ecology of major US forest types, with implications for forest management in a changing climate. The editors…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
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
Albery, Turilli, Joseph, Foley, Frere, Bansal
Background: Fire strongly affects animals’ behavior, population dynamics, and environmental surroundings, which in turn are likely to affect their immune systems and exposure to pathogens. However, little work has yet been conducted on the effects…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Singleton, Thode, Sánchez Meador, Iniguez, Stevens
Context: Spatial patterns of high-severity wildfire in forests affect vegetation recovery pathways, watershed dynamics, and wildlife habitat across landscapes. Yet, less is known about contemporary trends in landscape patterns of high-severity burn…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Jager, Long, Malison, Murphy, Rust, Silva, Sollmann, Steel, Bowen, Dunham, Ebersole, Flitcroft
Wildfires in many western North American forests are becoming more frequent, larger, and severe, with changed seasonal patterns. In response, coniferous forest ecosystems will transition toward dominance by fire-adapted hardwoods, shrubs, meadows,…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Nimmo, Carthey, Jolly, Blumstein
Planet Earth is entering the age of megafire, pushing ecosystems to their limits and beyond. While fire causes mortality of animals across vast portions of the globe, scientists are only beginning to consider fire as an evolutionary force in animal…
Year: 2021
Type: Document
Remington, Deibert, Hanser, Davis, Robb, Welty
The sagebrush (Artemisia spp.) biome, its wildlife, and the services and benefits it provides people and local communities are at risk. Development in the sagebrush biome, for many purposes, has resulted in multiple and often cumulative negative…
Year: 2021
Type: Document