Announcements

The August 2023 Traditional Knowledge and Fire Newsletter is full of research, webinars, podcasts, news, and more resources from Indigenous scholars, managers, and allies.

Learn about JFSP funding opportunities, find resources from the Wilderness and Fire Science Workshop, discover tools and publications, and read more fire science news in the August 2023 newsletter.

Review position descriptions for the new federal Wildland Fire Management series.

Read our latest research brief: "Wildfire Effects on Microclimate Conditions and Tree Regeneration in Mixed Conifer Forests."

Check out the resources on our Wildland Firefighter Health Hot Topic page.

WHAT'S NEW

Journal Articles

Downscaled subseasonal fire danger forecast skill across the contiguous United States
John T. Abatzoglou, Daniel J. McEvoy, Nicholas J. Nauslar, Katherine C. Hegewisch, Justin L. Huntington

Vertical and horizontal crown fuel continuity influences group-scale ignition and fuel consumption
Scott M. Ritter, Chad M. Hoffman, Michael A. Battaglia, Rodman Linn, William E. Mell

Metrics and considerations for evaluating how forest treatments alter wildfire behavior and effects
Anthony Vorster, Camille Stevens-Rumann, Nicholas Young, Brian Woodward, Christopher Tsz Hin Choi, Marin Chambers, Anthony S. Cheng, Michael D. Caggiano, Courtney Schultz, Matthew P. Thompson, S. Michelle Greiner, Gregory H. Aplet, Rob Addington, Michael A. Battaglia, Daniel Bowker, Ethan Bucholz, Brian Buma, Paul Evangelista, David W. Huffman, Stephanie E. Mueller, Charles C. Rhoades, William H. Romme, Andrew Sanchez Meador, Wade T. Tinkham, Matt Tuten, Amanda West

Quantifying surface fuels for fire modelling in temperate forests using airborne lidar and Sentinel-2: potential and limitations
Pia Labenski, Michael Ewald, Sebastian Schmidtlein, Faith A. Heinsch, Fabian Ewald Fassnacht

The eco-evolutionary role of fire in shaping terrestrial ecosystems
Fernanda Santos, Joseph K. Bailey, Jennifer A. Schweitzer

Modeling mammal response to fire based on species' traits
Christopher A. Pocknee, Sarah Legge, Jane McDonald, Diana O. Fisher

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