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Background: Current guidance for implementation of United States federal wildland fire policy charges agencies with restoring and maintaining fire-adapted ecosystems while limiting the extent of wildfires that threaten life and property, weighed…
Author(s): Bradley Pietruszka, Jesse Young, Karen C. Short, Lise A. St. Denis, Matthew P. Thompson, David E. Calkin
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High-severity wildfires create pulses of snags that serve a variety of functions as they decompose over time. Snag-related benefits (and hazards) are often linked to specific decomposition stages, but snag decomposition rates and pathways are not…
Author(s): David W. Peterson, Erich K. Dodson, Richy J. Harrod
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Fire management is growing increasingly complex in an environment beset by climate change, an ever-growing wildland-urban interface, and difficulties developing and maintaining workforce capacity. Delivery of timely and relevant fire science to…
Author(s): Vita Wright
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This is a summary from the Selway-Bitterroot and Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness Fire Science Workshop held June 27-28, 2023. It summarizes discussion points from the first day's breakout groups as well as some key discussion points from…
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Agricultural production in the western United States relies on water supplies from mountain source-water systems that are sensitive to impacts from wildfire and a changing climate. The resultant challenges to water supply forecasting directly impact…
Author(s): David M Barnard, Timothy R. Green, Kyle R. Mankin, Kendall C. DeJonge, Charles C. Rhoades, Stephanie Kampf, Jeremy Giovando, Michael J. Wilkins, Adam L. Mahood, Megan Sears, Louise H. Comas, Sean M. Gleason, Huihui Zhang, Steven R. Fassnacht, R. Daren Harmel, Jon Altenhofen
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Background: Due to anthropogenic climate change and historic fire suppression, wildfire frequency and severity are increasing across the western United States. Whereas the indirect effects of fire on wildlife via habitat change are well studied,…
Author(s): J. Ayars, Robbie L. Emmet, Sarah B. Bassing, Olivia Sanderfoot, Sierra Raby, Alexandra Karambelas, Eric James, Ravan Ahmadov, Beth Gardner
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Fire is an inherently evolutionary process, even though much more emphasis has been given to ecological responses of plants and their associated communities to fire. Here, we synthesize contributions to a Special Feature entitled 'Fire as a dynamic…
Author(s): Fernanda Santos, Joseph K. Bailey, Jennifer A. Schweitzer
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Many tools that identify wildfire risks and hazards across the landscape assume that all houses and properties within a community have the same level of risk. However, there are often substantial differences across properties, such as building…
Author(s): Andrea Watts, Patricia A. Champ, James R. Meldrum, Schelly Olson, James (Brad) White
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This paper aims to provide a better understanding of the transition towards a new paradigm of wildfire risk management in Victoria that incorporates Aboriginal fire knowledge. We show the suitability of cultural burning in the transformed landscapes…
Author(s): Amos Atkinson, Cristina Montiel-Molina
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Falling trees and tree fragments are one of the top five leading causes of fatalities for wildland fire responders. Wildfires - along with insect infestations, drought, disease, and other disturbances - have increased dead and dying trees in forests…
Author(s): Karen L. Riley, Kit O'Connor
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Background Native pinyon (Pinus spp.) and juniper (Juniperus spp.) trees are expanding into shrubland communities across the Western United States. These trees often outcompete with native sagebrush (Artemisia spp.) associated species, resulting in…
Author(s): Claire Williams, Lisa M. Ellsworth, Eva K. Strand, Matthew C. Reeves, Scott E. Shaff, Karen C. Short, Jeanne C. Chambers, Beth A. Newingham, Claire Tortorelli
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Fire has shaped ecological communities worldwide for millennia but impacts of fire on individual species are often poorly understood. We performed a meta-analysis to predict which traits, habitat or study variables, and fire characteristics…
Author(s): Christopher A. Pocknee, Sarah Legge, Jane McDonald, Diana O. Fisher
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Monitoring ecosystem status and recovery potential is critical for natural resource management. Recent evidence in ecological studies suggest a fundamental link between ecosystem physical structure and function, including resistance and recovery.…
Author(s): Andrii Zaiats, T. Trevor Caughlin
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A deeper understanding of the influence of fine-scale fuel patterns on fire behavior is essential to the design of forest treatments that aim to reduce fire hazard, enhance structural complexity, and increase ecosystem function and resilience. Of…
Author(s): Scott M. Ritter, Chad M. Hoffman, Michael A. Battaglia, Rodman Linn, William E. Mell
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Building containment lines and removing fuels can bring wildland firefighters close to advancing flames. In these high-risk situations, firefighters depend on safety zones - large, open areas with little flammable material where they can retreat if…
Author(s): Daniel M. Jimenez
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1. Climate, disturbance, vegetation response, and their interaction are key factors in predicting the distribution and function of ecosystems across landscapes. A range of factors, operating through different pathways, are amplifying the feedbacks…
Author(s): Shuang Liang, Matthew D. Hurteau
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Background: There has been little quantification of the extent and duration of micrometeorological changes within a forest after airtanker drops of water-based suppressant. It has been speculated that a period of prolonged relative humidity –…
Author(s): Melanie J. Wheatley, Anne Cotton-Gagnon, Jonathan Boucher, B. Mike Wotton, Colin B. McFayden, N. Jurko, Jason Robinson
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The influence of forest treatments on wildfire effects is challenging to interpret. This is, in part, because the impact forest treatments have on wildfire can be slight and variable across many factors. Effectiveness of a treatment also depends on…
Author(s): 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
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Prescribed fire is a useful tool for building resilient landscapes in fire-prone areas across the globe. In the western U.S., prescribed fire is employed by federal, state, and Tribal land managers and planned during particular meteorological and…
Author(s): Christopher Bone, Courtney Shultz, Heidi Huber-Stearns, Jason Kelley, Emma Cunnin
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By all measures, wildfires in the western United States are becoming more extreme. Fires are growing larger and burning more intensely, and suppression costs are spiraling upward. Maximizing the effectiveness of fuel treatments at the landscape…
Author(s): Theresa B. Jain, Sharon M. Hood, Shawn T. McKinney, Jeffrey Ott, Alexandra K. Urza, J. Morgan Varner, Ilana L. Abrahamson, Nathaniel Anderson, Michael A. Battaglia, Jeanne C. Chambers, Brice B. Hanberry, Francis F. Kilkenny, Joseph J. O'Brien
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