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Risk management is a significant part of federal wildland fire management in the USA because policy encourages the use of fire to maintain and restore ecosystems while protecting life and property. In this study, patterns of wildfire risk were…
Author(s): Erin Noonan-Wright, Carl A. Seielstad
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im Gumm: I have the privilege of talking to Leslie Weldon and Holly Krake about psychological safety in general and, in particular, an article that Holly led in writing called “The Big Quiet.” Leslie, let’s start with you: What comes to mind when we…
Author(s): Jim Gumm
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Post‐fire shifts in vegetation composition will have broad ecological impacts. However, information characterizing post‐fire recovery patterns and their drivers are lacking over large spatial extents. In this analysis we used Landsat imagery…
Author(s): Melanie K. Vanderhoof, Todd J. Hawbaker, Andrea Ku, Kyle E. Merriam, Erin Berryman, Megan E. Cattau
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Wildland fire management decision-makers need to quickly understand large amounts of quantitative information under stressful conditions. Categorization and visualization 'schemes' have long been used to help, but how they are done affects the speed…
Author(s): Den Boychuk, Colin B. McFayden, Douglas G. Woolford, B. Mike Wotton, Aaron Stacey, Jordan Evens, Chelene C. Krezek-Hanes, Melanie J. Wheatley
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Wildfire emissions affect downwind air quality and human health. Predictions of these impacts using models are limited by uncertainties in emissions and chemical evolution of smoke plumes. Using high-time-resolution aircraft measurements, we…
Author(s): Brett B. Palm, Qiaoyun Peng, Samuel R. Hall, Kirk Ullmann, Teresa L. Campos, Andrew J. Weinheimer, Denise D. Montzka, Geoffrey S. Tyndall, Wade Permar, Lu Hu, Frank Flocke, Emily V. Fischer, Joel A. Thornton
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The wildland firefighter exposure and health effect (WFFEHE) study was a 2-year repeated-measures study to investigate occupational exposures and acute and subacute health effects among wildland firefighters. This manuscript describes the study…
Author(s): Kathleen M. Navarro, Corey Butler, Kenneth Fent, Christine Toennis, Deborah Sammons, Alejandra Ramirez-Cardenas, Kathleen A. Clark, David C. Byrne, Pamela S. Graydon, Christa Hale, Andrea F. Wilkinson, Denise L. Smith, Marissa C. Alexander-Scott, Lynne E. Pinkerton, Judith Eisenberg, Joseph W. Domitrovich
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Because fire retardant can enter streams and harm aquatic species including endangered fish, agencies such as the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) must estimate the downstream extent of toxic effects every time fire retardant enters streams (denoted as an…
Author(s): Chris R. Rehmann, P. Ryan Jackson, Holly J. Puglis
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here is increasing discussion in the academic and agency literature, as well as popular media, about the need to address the existing deficit of beneficial fire on landscapes. One approach allowable under United States federal wildland fire policy…
Author(s): Stephen D. Fillmore, Sarah M. McCaffrey, Alistair M. S. Smith
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Objectives: To determine the impact of bushfires on children’s physical activity. Design: Natural experiment comparing device-measured physical activity and air quality index data for schools exposed and not exposed to the Australian bushfires.…
Author(s): Borjadel Pozo Cruz, Timothy B. Hartwig, Taren Sanders, Michael Noetel, Philip Parker, Devan Antczak, Jane Lee, David R. Lubans, Adrian Bauman, Ester Cerin, Chris Lonsdale
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Projected warming of global surface air temperatures will further exacerbate droughts, wildfires, and other agents of ecosystem stress. We use latewood blue intensity from high‐elevation Picea engelmannii to reconstruct late‐summer maximum air…
Author(s): Karen J. Heeter, Maegen L. Rochner, Grant Harley
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Identifying meaningful measures of ecological change over large areas is dependent on the quantification of robust relationships between ecological metrics and remote sensing products. Over the past several decades, ground observations of wildfire…
Author(s): Joshua J. Picotte, C. Alina Cansler, Crystal A. Kolden, James A. Lutz, Carl H. Key, Nathan C. Benson, Kevin M. Robertson
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The 2020 fire season in the western United States (the West) has been staggering: over 2.5 million ha have burned as of 30 September, including over 1.5 million ha in California (3.7% of the state), in part from five of the six largest fires in…
Author(s): Philip E. Higuera, John T. Abatzoglou
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It is common practice for land managers to thin forests in the western United States and then masticate fuels by mowing, chipping or mulching the downed trees, shrubs and herbaceous vegetation. The thinning reduces canopy fuels and then mastication…
Author(s): Alex W. Kirkpatrick
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Western North American fires have been increasing in magnitude and severity over the last few decades. The complex coupling of fires with the atmospheric energy budget and meteorology creates short-term feedbacks on regional weather altering the…
Author(s): Diana N. Bernstein, Douglas S. Hamilton, Rosalie Krasnoff, Natalie M. Mahowald, David S. Connelly, Simone Tilmes, Peter G. M. Hess
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Expert opinion can be a valuable tool for informed decision making. Concerning wildfire susceptibility reduction at the landscape scale, forest ecosystem experts play a key role in offering advice about appropriate fuel management practices to be…
Author(s): Ana Martins, Ana Novais, José L. Santos, Maria João Canadas
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Increases in Vapor Pressure Deficit (VPD) have been hypothesized as the primary driver of future fire changes. The Coupled Model Intercomparison Project phase 5 (CMIP5) models agree that western U.S. surface temperatures and associated dryness of…
Author(s): Steven J. Brey, Elizabeth A. Barnes, Jeffrey R. Pierce, Abigail L. S. Swann, Emily V. Fischer
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Exposure to wildfire smoke continues to be a growing threat to public health, yet the chemical components in wildfire smoke that primarily drive toxicity and associated disease are largely unknown. This study utilized a suite of computational…
Author(s): Julia E. Rager, Jeliyah Clark, Lauren A. Eaves, Vennela Avula, Nicole M. Niehoff, Yong Ho Kim, Ilona Jaspers, M. Ian Gilmour
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Managed wildfires, naturally ignited wildfires that are managed for resource benefit, have the potential to reduce fuel loads and minimize the effects of future wildfires, but have been utilized mainly in remote settings. A new policy federal…
Author(s): Jose M. Iniguez, Andrea E. Thode, Sarah M. McCaffrey, Alexander M. Evans, Marc D. Meyer, Shaula J. Hedwall
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Computer models used to predict forest and fuels dynamics and wildfire behavior inform decisionmaking in contexts such as postdisturbance management. It is imperative to understand possible uncertainty in model predictions. We evaluated sensitivity…
Author(s): Maureen C. Kennedy, Morris C. Johnson, Sarah C. Harrison
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Fire frequency and severity in southern California and across the western United States is increasing, posing a concern to the safety and well-being of communities and ecosystems. Increased aridity coupled with water stressed vegetation from…
Author(s): Alicia M. Kinoshita, Brenton A. Wilder
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