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Spatial wildfire ignition predictions are needed to ensure efficient and effective wildfire response, and robust methods for modeling new wildfire occurrences are ever-emerging. Here, ignition locations of natural and human-caused wildfires across…
Author(s): Adrian Jimenez-Ruano, William Matt Jolly, Patrick H. Freeborn, Daniel J. Vega-Nieva, Norma A. Monjaras-Vega, Carlos I. Briones-Herrera, Marcos Rodrigues
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Critical to effective fire management is the protection and preparedness of highly trained wildland firefighters who routinely face extreme physical and psychological demands. To date, there is limited scientific evidence of psychosocial education…
Author(s): Caleb Leduc, Sabir I. Giga, Ian J. Fletcher, Michelle Young, Sandra C. Dorman
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The continuous research and development regarding firefighters’ personal protective equipment (PPE) has led to significant improvements in recent decades. Despite the evolution of firefighters’ PPE, every year an undesirable number of firefighters…
Author(s): Gilda Santos, Rita Marques, Joao Ribeiro, Adriana Moreira, Patricia Fernandes, Margarida Silva, Andre Fonseca, Joao M. Miranda, J.B.L.M. Campos, S.F. Neves
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Mountain snowpacks provide 53–78% of water used for irrigation, municipalities, and industrial consumption in the western United States. Snowpacks serve as natural reservoirs during the winter months and play an essential role in water storage for…
Author(s): Arielle L. Koshkin, Benjamin J. Hatchett, Anne W. Nolin
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Characterizing pre-fire fuel load and fuel consumption are critical for assessing fire behavior, fire effects, and smoke emissions. Two approaches for quantifying fuel load are airborne laser scanning (ALS) and the Fuel Characteristic Classification…
Author(s): T. Ryan McCarley, Andrew T. Hudak, Joseph C. Restaino, Michael Billmire, Nancy H. F. French, Roger D. Ottmar, Bridget Hass, Kyle Zarzana, Tristan Goulden, Rainer Volkamer
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Full suppression strategies remain the dominant option in wildfire management, despite a large body of research demonstrating the ecological and economic benefits of allowing unplanned wildfires to burn under favorable conditions. Consequently,…
Author(s): David J. Rossi, Olli-Pekka Kuusela, Christopher J. Dunn
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[from the text] Our steering committee is dedicated to advancing federal policy to support wider use of prescribed fire and wildfire managed for resource benefits. Both these uses of fire are essential tools for fuel reduction, community protection…
Author(s): Courtney Schultz, Tyson Bertone-Riggs, Susan Jane Brown, Nick Goulette, S. Michelle Greiner, Dylan Kruse, Rebecca Shively, Marek K. Smith
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As the wildland–urban interface continues to expand into fire prone areas, future wildfires will likely result in the burning of more built structures, such as the recent Marshall Fire in Colorado, which increases the complexity of the wildfire…
Author(s): Alice Gilliland, Tim Watkins
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With the advancement in scientific understanding and computing technologies, fire practitioners have started relying on operational fire simulation tools to make better-informed decisions during wildfire emergencies. This increased use has created…
Author(s): Ujjwal KC, J. E. Hilton, Saurabh Garg, Jagannath Aryal
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Collaboration is increasingly emphasized as a tool to realize national-level policy goals in public lands management. Yet, collaborative governance regimes (CGRs) are nested within traditional bureaucracies and are affected by internal and external…
Author(s): Tyler A. Beeton, Anthony S. Cheng, Melanie M. Colavito
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Of all terrestrial biomes, grasslands are losing the most biodiversity the most rapidly, so there is a critical need to document and learn from large-scale restoration successes. In the Loess Canyons ecoregion of the Great Plains, USA, an…
Author(s): Caleb P. Roberts, Rheinhardt Scholtz, Dillon T. Fogarty, Dirac Twidwell, Thomas L. Jr. Walker
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Warming temperatures and changing weather patterns are causing more frequent and severe disturbances in western North American forests. The increasing length and severity of recent wildfire seasons have annually caused widespread injury to millions…
Author(s): Katherine A. Kitchens, Lucas Peng, Lori D. Daniels, Allan L. Carroll
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Sagebrush ecosystems of western North America are threatened by invasive annual grasses and wildfires that can remove fire-intolerant shrubs for decades. Fuel reduction treatments are used ostensibly to aid in fire suppression, conserve wildlife…
Author(s): David A. Pyke, Scott E. Shaff, Jeanne C. Chambers, Eugene Schupp, Beth A. Newingham, Margaret L. Gray, Lisa M. Ellsworth
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Many ecologically important high elevation five-needle white pine (HEFNP) forests that historically dominated upper subalpine landscapes of western North America are now being impacted by mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonus spp.) outbreaks, the…
Author(s): Robert E. Keane, Anna W. Schoettle, Diana F. Tomback
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A microscale wildfire model, QES-Fire, that dynamically couples the fire front to microscale winds was developed using a simplified physics rate of spread (ROS) model, a kinematic plume-rise model and a mass-consistent wind solver. The model is…
Author(s): Matt Moody, Jeremy A. Gibbs, Steven K. Krueger, Derek V. Mallia, Eric Pardyjak, Adam K. Kochanski, Brian N. Bailey, Rob Stoll
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Surface fuel loads are a key driver of forest fires and the target of hazard reduction burns to reduce fire risk. However, the role of biota in decomposition, or feedbacks between fire and decomposer communities are rarely considered. We review the…
Author(s): Heloise Gibb, J. J. Grubb, O. Decker, Nick P. Murphy, A. E. Franks, J. L. Wood
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The effect of the main fire factors (smoke, ash, charcoal and heat) can influence the germination of species through their seeds. Hence, a methodology has been devised in order to have a common protocol for those who work in this area and serve as a…
Author(s): Oscar Cruz, Sheila F. Riveiro, Mercedes Casal, Otilia Reyes
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Background: The structure and function of fire-prone ecosystems are influenced by many interacting processes that develop over varying time scales. Fire creates both instantaneous and long-term changes in vegetation (defined as live, dead, and…
Author(s): E. Louise Loudermilk, Joseph O’Brien, Scott L. Goodrick, Rodman Linn, Nick Skowronski, J. Kevin Hiers
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This article applies an interdisciplinary agent-based model (ABM) of wildfire evacuation to the devastating 2018 wildfire in Mati, Greece, where the second-deadliest wildfire of the 21st century took place. This model integrates the natural hazard…
Author(s): M. R. K. Siam, Haizhong Wang, Michael K. Lindell, Chen Chen, Eleni I. Vlahogianni, Kay Axhausen
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The paper first reviews the mode of generation of fire whirls, their properties, and operational regimes, under well-controlled experimental conditions. The situation is different with wildfires. These are uncontrolled and less well understood. A…
Author(s): Adriana Palacios, Derek Bradley
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