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As highly productive and biologically diverse communities, healthy quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides; hereafter aspen) forests provide a wide range of ecosystem services across western North America. Western aspen decline during the last century…
Author(s): Stanley G. Kitchen, Patrick N. Behrens, Sherel Goodrich, Ashley Green, John Guyon, Mary H. O'Brien, David Tart
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The national symbol of forest fire prevention, Smokey Bear, and the slogan, 'Only you can prevent forest fires!' already existed when a group of firefighters on the Capitan Gap Fire found an orphaned bear cub clinging to a tree after a flareup. The…
Author(s): Larry S. Allen
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Large wildfires can cover millions of hectares of forest every year worldwide, causing losses in ecosystems and assets. Fire simulation and modeling provides an analytical scheme to characterize and predict fire behavior and spread in several and…
Author(s): Adrián Cardil, Santiago Monedero, Joaquin Ramírez, Alberto Silva
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To optimize suppression, restoration, and prevention plans against wildfire, postfire assessment is a key input. Since little research has been carried out on applying Sentinel-2 imagery through an integrated approach to evaluate how environmental…
Author(s): Juan Picos, Laura Alonso, Guillermo Bastos, Julia Armesto
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Exotic grass invasions are often facilitated by disturbances, which provide opportunities for invasion by releasing pulses of resources available to invaders. Where disturbances such as prescribed fire are used as a management tool, there is a…
Author(s): Alexandra K. Urza, Peter J. Weisberg, Jeanne C. Chambers, David Board, Samuel W. Flake
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Purpose of Review: The effectiveness of wildfire suppression is difficult to define as it can be assessed against different objectives and at a range of scales. The influence of multiple variables make it a challenge to research. This two-part…
Author(s): Matt P. Plucinski
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The resilience of resource-based communities facing natural disturbances partly depends on the capacity of a wide diversity of stakeholders to share their expertise, articulate their efforts, and develop solutions that are both effective and…
Author(s): Rodolphe Gonzalès, Lael Parrott
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Wildfires are natural disturbances in the western United States. Managing the resulting stands of dead and dying trees requires balancing conflicting priorities. Although these trees provide wildlife habitat and salvage logging revenue, they also…
Author(s): Sharon M. Hood, Sheri L. Smith, Renate Bush, Maurice Huynh
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Research highlights: The biology of mountain pine beetle (MPB), Dendroctonus ponderosae Hopkins, in Colorado’s lodgepole pine forests exhibits similarities and differences to other parts of its range. Brood emergence was not influenced by stand…
Author(s): Jose F. Negron
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Reestablishment of perennial vegetation is often needed after wildfires to limit exotic species and restore ecosystem services. However, there is growing body of evidence that questions if seeding after wildfires increases perennial vegetation and…
Author(s): Kirk W. Davies, Jonathan D. Bates, Chad S. Boyd
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After wildfire, hillslope and channel erosion produce large amounts of sediment and can contribute significantly to long‐term erosion rates. However, pre‐erosion high‐resolution topographic data (e.g. lidar) is often not available and determining…
Author(s): Nicholas G. Ellett, Jennifer L. Pierce, Nancy F. Glenn
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(1) Background: Frequent fire, climate variability, and human activities collectively influence savanna ecosystems. The relative role of these three factors likely varies on interannual, decadal, and centennial timescales. Here, we tested if Euro-…
Author(s): Berangere Leys, Daniel Griffin, Evan R. Larson
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Forest watersheds provide over half of our national water supplies. Millions of people depend on surface freshwater supplies from fire-prone headwater forests, used for drinking, irrigation, industry, and hydropower. However wildland fires in the…
Author(s): Ge Sun, Dennis W. Hallema, Erika C. Cohen, Steven G. McNulty, Peter V. Caldwell, Francois-Nicolas Robinne, Steven P. Norman, Yongqiang Liu
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Fire outbreaks are a serious risk in campsites due to the surroundings and dynamic environment of these areas. Due to climate change, conditions of high ignition propensity are becoming more frequent, leading to an increased need for the development…
Author(s): Maria João Sousa, Alexandra Moutinho, Miguel Almeida
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Ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa Lawson & C. Lawson) is a prominent tree species in forests of the western United States. Wildfire activity in ponderosa pine dominated or co-dominated forests has increased dramatically in recent decades, with…
Author(s): Julie E. Korb, Paula J. Fornwalt, Camille Stevens-Rumann
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Mountain big sagebrush is a widely distributed shrub native to the western United States. Mountain big sagebrush ecosystems support hundreds of plant and animal species, including several sagebrush obligates. The distribution of mountain big…
Author(s): Robin J. Innes
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We have read Cruz and Alexander’s comments regarding our manuscript titled ‘‘Evaluating Crown Fire Rate of Spread Predictions from Physics-Based Models’’ [1] and appreciate the opportunity to respond to their comments. In our original manuscript [1…
Author(s): Chad M. Hoffman, J. Ziegler, R. R. Linn, J. Canfield, W. Mell, Carolyn Hull Sieg, F. Pimont
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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…
Author(s): Juli G. Pausas, Jon E. Keeley
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Over recent decades, increases in substantial tree mortality events have coincided with severe drought and bark beetle outbreak. This has prompted forest managers to find treatments that enhance resistance to disturbances. Variable density thinning…
Author(s): Jeffrey M. Kane, Alexis Bernal
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Wildfire evacuation triggers refer to prominent geographic features used in wildfire evacuation practices, and when a fire crosses a feature, an evacuation warning is issued to the communities or firefighters in the path of the fire. The existing…
Author(s): Dapeng Li, Thomas J. Cova, Philip E. Dennison
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