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Acquiring detailed 3D fuel data for advanced fire models remains challenging, particularly at large scales. To address this need, we present FastFuels, a novel platform designed to generate detailed 3D fuel data and accelerate the use of advanced…
Author(s): Anthony Marcozzi, Lucas Wells, Russell A. Parsons, Eric V. Mueller, Rodman Linn, J. Kevin Hiers
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Many barriers prevent ranchers from supporting prescribed fire on grazing leases or their own land. Barriers include negative perceptions of fire resources limitations, and fear of liability. We surveyed ranching landowners around four National…
Author(s): Kaylee Boland, Devan A. McGranahan, Benjamin A. Geaumont, Carissa L. Wonkka, Jacqueline P. Ott, Urs P. Kreuter
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Acquiring detailed 3D fuel data for advanced fire models remains challenging, particularly at large scales. To address this need, we present FastFuels, a novel platform designed to generate detailed 3D fuel data and accelerate the use of advanced…
Author(s): Anthony Marcozzi, Lucas Wells, Russell A. Parsons, Eric Mueller, Rodman Linn, J. Kevin Hiers
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Over the last 20 years, all states within the US have required all cigarettes sold to be “fire safe” or “fire standards compliant” meaning that they must pass ASTM standard E2187. Though these cigarettes are designed to self-extinguish, there have…
Author(s): Sara S. McAllister, Stephen Williams, Ian J. Grob
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The area burned in the western United States during the 2020 fire season was the greatest in the modern era. Here we show that the number of human‐caused fires in 2020 also was elevated, nearly 20% higher than the 1992-2019 average. Although…
Author(s): Adam L. Jorge, John T. Abatzoglou, Erica Fleishman, Emily L. Williams, David E. Rupp, Jeffrey S. Jenkins, Mojtaba Sadegh, Crystal A. Kolden, Karen C. Short
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Accounting for the effects of fire suppression and containment efforts has posed a challenge in wildfire modeling. Fire suppression is a complex phenomenon depending on factors such as resource availability, weather, terrain, and fire suppression…
Author(s): Mark A. Finney, Scott N. Zimmer, Karen L. Riley, Isaac C. Grenfell
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Fire-caused tree mortality has major impacts on forest ecosystems. One primary cause of post-fire tree mortality in non-resprouting species is crown scorch, the percentage of foliage in a crown that is killed by heat. Despite its importance, the…
Author(s): Kate Fuller, Leda N. Kobziar, Rodman Linn, Sharon M. Hood
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Fuels treatments intended to reduce fuel loads and improve forest health on public lands offer one way to reduce wildfire hazards in the wildland-urban interface (WUI), where the natural and built environments meet. However, for fuels treatment…
Author(s): Kelly Wallace, Hannah Brenkert-Smith, Patricia A. Champ, James R. Meldrum, Grant Webster, Christine Taniguchi, Julia B. Goolsby, Colleen Donovan, Carolyn Wagner, Christopher M. Barth, Josh Kuehn, Suzanne Wittenbrink
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Background. Wildland firefighters are exposed to hazards when working which can, and do, result in serious injury or death. Understanding the activities in which firefighters are engaged when they are injured, the hazards to which they were exposed…
Author(s): Erin J. Belval, Bradley Pietruszka, Alex Viktora
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Background: Despite progress in reducing industrial air pollution, rising wildfire frequency and intensity, driven in part by climate change, pose significant health risks. Accurate estimates of wildfire-generated fine particulate matter with an…
Author(s): Ava Orr, Claire E. Adam, Jon Graham, Zachary A. Holden, Lu Hu, Zeina Jaffar, Cindy S. Leary, Christopher T. Migliaccio, Katrina Mullan, Curtis Noonan, Erin O. Semmens, Shawn P. Urbanski, Ethan Walker, Erin L. Landguth
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Background: Remote sensing techniques for assessing fire severity using two-dimensional imagery, such as satellite data, are limited to a single severity value per pixel, typically at a 30-m resolution. This often leads to an underestimation…
Author(s): Jonathan L. Batchelor, Andrew T. Hudak, Akira Kato, David R. Weise, L. Monika Moskal
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Fire-caused tree mortality has major impacts on forest ecosystems. One primary cause of post-fire tree mortality in non-resprouting species is crown scorch, the percentage of foliage in a crown that is killed by heat. Despite its importance, the…
Author(s): Kate Fuller, Leda N. Kobziar, Rodman Linn, Sharon M. Hood
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-- The mechanistic links between fire-caused injuries and post-fire tree mortality are poorly understood. Current hypotheses differentiate effects of fire on tree carbon balance and hydraulic function, yet critical uncertainties remain about the…
Author(s): Charlotte C. Reed, Sharon M. Hood, Aaron R. Ramirez, Anna Sala
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The sagebrush biome in the western United States is a focus of widespread conservation concern due to multiple interacting threats including larger, more severe wildfires. Given the immense scale of the region and limited resources, prioritizing…
Author(s): Michelle A. Day, Claire Tortorelli, Lisa M. Ellsworth, Karen C. Short, Jessi L. Brown, Sofia Koutzoukis, Julia Olszewski, Alan A. Ager, Jeanne C. Chambers
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As wildfires intensify across the western United States, understanding long-term ecosystem recovery is increasingly critical. Post-fire soil amendments, such as woody mulch or biochar, are commonly used to stabilize soils and promote vegetation…
Author(s): David M Barnard, Adam L. Mahood, Jacob A. Macdonald, Kaela K. Amundson, Timothy S. Fegel, Sean M. Gleason, Madeline Guimond, Sophia Kaiser, Kya Sparks, Michael J. Wilkins, Charles C. Rhoades
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Despite fire being one of the oldest and most important ecological disturbance processes on Earth, many aspects of fire–vegetation feedbacks are poorly understood, limiting their accurate representation in predictive models. Translating plant…
Author(s): Dylan W. Schwilk, Md Azharul Alam, Nathan S. Gill, Brad R. Murray, Rachael H. Nolan, Stefania Ondei, George L.W. Perry, Alistair M. S. Smith, David M. J. S. Bowman, Alessandra Fidelis, Pedro Jaureguiberry, I. Oliveras Menor, Bruno H. P. Rosado, Helena Roland, Marta Yebra, Stephanie Yelenik, Timothy J. Curran
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Wildfire is a natural disturbance in landscapes of the Western United States, but the effects and extents of fire are changing. Differences between historical and contemporary fire regimes can help identify reasons for observed changes in landscape…
Author(s): Eva K. Strand, Kori Blankenship, Corey L. Gucker, Mark W. Brunson, Eugenie MontBlanc
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Area burned by wildfire has increased in western US forests and elsewhere over recent decades coincident with warmer and drier fire seasons. However, high-severity fire - fire that kills all or most trees - is arguably a more important metric of…
Author(s): Sean A. Parks, Jonathan D. Coop, Kimberly T. Davis
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Accurate prediction of forest fire spread is a critical management and scientific challenge as the world adapts to rapidly changing fire regimes. We reconstructed 5,400 daily burned area progression maps for 196 U.S. Northern Rocky Mountain…
Author(s): Zachary A. Holden, Alan Swanson, Mojtaba Sadegh, Charles H. Luce, Erin Noonan-Wright, Russell A. Parsons
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Background Merging fire fronts have been associated with rapid fire spread and extremely destructive wildfires, yet few studies have characterised these behaviours outside the laboratory. Aims This study aimed to improve our understanding of merging…
Author(s): Alexander I. Filkov, Brendan Holyland, Brett Cirulis, Khalid Moinuddin, Duncan Sutherland, J. Sharples, J.E. Hilton, Craig B. Clements, Trent D. Penman
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