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Foliar moisture content (FMC) plays a crucial role in the arid, fire-adapted forests of the western US by influencing fire behavior, tree survival, and serving as a proxy for tree health. Management actions such as mechanical thinning and prescribed…
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Wildfire policy has evolved rapidly over the past three decades, necessitating repeated shifts in management and communication strategies for US land management agencies. One growing focus considers the use of “other than full suppression” (OTFS)…
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Collaborative efforts are an effective tool for managing the growing social and ecological complexities of wildfire adaptation at the landscape level. However, efforts to document the decision-making processes of collaborative groups around fire…
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Background: Modern land management faces unprecedented uncertainty regarding future climates, novel disturbance regimes, and unanticipated ecological feedbacks. Mitigating this uncertainty requires a cohesive landscape management strategy that…
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Background: Unprecedented wildfire frequency, fueled by invasive annual grasses, threatens sagebrush ecosystems. To suppress wildfire and conserve sagebrush, land management agencies have installed fuel breaks across the sagebrush biome. However,…
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Intensification of drought and wildfire associated with climate change has triggered widespread ecosystem stress and transformation. Natural resource managers are on the frontline of these changes, yet their perspectives on whether management…
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Interruption of frequent burning in dry forests across western North America and the continued impacts of anthropogenic climate change have resulted in increases in fire size and severity compared to historical fire regimes. Recent legislation,…
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Reforestation activities such as tree planting are important management tools to offset carbon emissions and restore forest ecosystem integrity. Severe wildfire activity, a key driver of forest loss, is increasing throughout the western United…
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In western North America, quaking aspen stands (Populus tremuloides Michx.) have predominantly been described as low flammability, “fireproof” forests, but the specific relationship between aspen stand composition, fuel characteristics, and…
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Wildfires have become a significant environmental and public health concern worldwide, particularly due to their increased frequency and intensity driven by climate change. Wildfire smoke, composed of a complex mixture of particulate matter, gases…
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Many firefighters have inadequate levels of physical fitness which can impair firefighting performance. Understanding the factors that influence exercise and fitness behaviors could help identify those less likely to stay physically fit. Methods: A…
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This paper reports on research undertaken for the Building Resilience for Bushfire-Affected Communities in Noosa Shire project, funded by the Australian Government. Being evacuated from a home in the path of a bushfire can be traumatic. Therefore,…
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In 2024, wildfires burned a record number of forests participating in California's forest offset program, exposing the danger of relying on forests to slow climate change. While California maintains a reserve of offset credits - known as a “buffer…
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Climate change is amplifying both wildfire burned area and severity, as well as incidents of drought-induced tree mortality (dieback). Direct effects from climate change amplify wildfires and episodes of drought-induced dieback have well-known…
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Understanding past fire regimes requires reliable proxy data that record fire conditions and preserve them over time. The objective of this study was to determine if the oxygen isotope composition of charred bark samples (pyrogenic organic matter)…
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The 21st century’s warming climate threatens aspen (Populus tremuloides) growth in the southern Rocky Mountains (western US), endangering ecosystem diversity, functionality, and associated services. This study linked aspen growth with temperature…
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The occurrence of forest ground smoldering combustion has been increasingly frequent in recent years, resulting in significant emissions that have a detrimental impact on the ecological environment. Current research on smoldering emissions, however…
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Forests are valuable for a wide variety of reasons, including biodiversity and carbon sequestration and storage. As such, in the U.S., various parties have proposed large-scale forest management efforts to enhance biodiversity conservation and…
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The invasive annual grass cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum) increases fuel continuity, alters patterns of fire spread, and changes plant communities in sagebrush shrublands of the Great Basin (USA) and adjacent sagebrush steppe, but no studies…
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Variable radius plot surveys can require updated estimates when the quality of previous estimates have declined over time. We developed a statistical estimator for this purpose that is the product of two estimators, one estimator is for the updated…
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