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Gary Ferguson takes on one of the most pressing issues facing the American West—wildfire—in his new book Land on fire. This concise, beautifully illustrated text takes a broad view of the growing challenges facing fire-prone ecosystems and the human…
Author(s): Andrew J. Larson
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Pattern is a component of forest structure that includes the spatial arrangement of the types, species, numbers and sizes of individual structural elements (eg, trees, logs, snags). Spatial pattern is inherently linked to density (eg, number and…
Author(s): Derek J. Churchill, S Trent Seager, Andrew J. Larson, Eryn E. Schneider, Kerry Kemp, Craig Bienz
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Wildland firefighters have arduous and hazardous occupations and are being killed or injured at alarming rates with 1,114 killed while on assignment between 1994 and 2016. Thus, improving wildland firefighter health and safety is a National priority…
Author(s): Callie N. Collins
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Habitat suitability models can inform forest management for species of conservation concern. Models quantify relationships between known species locations and environmental attributes, which are used to identify areas most likely to support species…
Author(s): Quresh Latif, Victoria A. Saab, Jessica R. Haas, Jonathan G. Dudley
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Fuel reduction treatments are used to reduce wildfire risk and to restore plant communities. Yet, repeated mechanical or prescribed fire treatments may gradually change forest structure and microhabitat conditions, favoring some taxa and decreasing…
Author(s): Cathryn H. Greenberg, Christopher E. Moorman, Charlotte E. Matthews-Snoberger, Thomas A. Waldrop, Dean M. Simon, Amanda Heh, Donald L. Hagan
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In many forested ecosystems, it is increasingly recognized that the probability of burning is substantially reduced within the footprint of previously burned areas. This self-limiting effect of wildland fire is considered a fundamental emergent…
Author(s): Sean A. Parks, Marc-Andre Parisien, Lisa M. Holsinger, L. Scott Baggett, Carol Miller
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Tree mortality is an important outcome of many forest fires. Extensive tree injuries from fire may lead directly to mortality, but environmental and biological stressors may also contribute to tree death. However, there is little evidence showing…
Author(s): Phillip J. van Mantgem, Donald A. Falk, Emma C. Williams, Adrian J. Das, Nathan L. Stephenson
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We developed ecologically based climate‐fire projections for the western United States. Using a finer ecological classification and fire‐relevant climate predictors, we created statistical models linking climate and wildfire area burned for…
Author(s): Jeremy S. Littell, Donald McKenzie, Ho Yi Wan, Samuel A. Cushman
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The sagebrush (Artemisia spp.) ecosystem extends across a large portion of the Western United States, and the greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) is one of the iconic species of this ecosystem. Greater sage-grouse populations occur in 11…
Author(s): Steven E. Hanser
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Purpose of Review: I sought to review the contributions of recent literature and prior foundational papers to our understanding of drought and fire. In this review, I summarize recent literature on drought and fire in the western USA and discuss…
Author(s): Jeremy S. Littell
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Following a wildfire, flooding and debris- flow hazards are common and pose a threat to human life and infrastructure in steep burned terrain. Wildfire enhances both water runoff and soil erosion, which ultimately shape the debris flow potential.…
Author(s): Francis K. Rengers, Luke A. McGuire
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Remote sensing products provide a vital understanding of wildfire effects across a landscape, but detection and delineation of low- and mixed-severity fire remain difficult. Although data provided by the Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (MTBS)…
Author(s): T. Ryan McCarley, Alistair M. S. Smith, Crystal A. Kolden, Jason Kreitler
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This research investigates the impact of wildfires on watershed flow regimes, specifically focusing on evaluation of fire events within specified hydroclimatic regions in the western United States, and evaluating the impact of climate and…
Author(s): Samuel Saxe, Terri S. Hogue, Lauren Hay
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The ecological literature offers many conflicting recommendations for how managers should respond to ecosystem change and novelty. We propose a framework in which forest managers may achieve desired forest characteristics by combining strategies for…
Author(s): Adena R. Rissman, Kevin D. Burke, Heather A. Kramer, Volker C. Radeloff, Paul R. Schilke, Owen A. Selles, Rachel H. Toczydlowski, Chloe B. Wardropper, Lori A. Barrow, Jennifer L. Chandler, Katelyn Geleynse, Andrew W. L'roe, Katherine M. Laushman, A. Lisa Schomaker
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Laboratory and field experiments focused on pyrolysis and ignition coupled with sufficient description of fuel characteristics and physics-based modeling are being used to improve our understanding of combustion processes in mixed (heterogeneous)…
Author(s): David R. Weise, Thomas H. Fletcher, Timothy J. Johnson, Wei Min Hao, Mark Dietenberger, M. Princevac, Bret W. Butler, Sara S. McAllister, Joseph O’Brien, E. Louise Loudermilk, Roger D. Ottmar, Andrew T. Hudak, Akira Kato, Babak Shotorban, Shankar M. Mahalingam, William E. Mell
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Smokey Bear’s story begins with World War II. In spring 1942, a few months after Japanese planes had attacked Pearl Harbor, an enemy submarine fired shells that exploded near an oil field close to the Los Padres National Forest. U.S. Forest Service…
Author(s): James G. Lewis
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Extensive high‐severity wildfires have driven major losses of ponderosa pine and mixed‐conifer forests in the southwestern United States, in some settings catalyzing enduring conversions to non‐forested vegetation types. Management interventions to…
Author(s): Ryan B. Walker, Jonathan D. Coop, Sean A. Parks, Laura Trader
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1.Climate change indirectly affects forest ecosystems through changes in the frequency, size, and/or severity of wildfires. In addition to its direct effects prior to fire, climate also influences immediate postfire recruitment, with consequences…
Author(s): Kimberley T. Davis, Philip E. Higuera, Anna Sala
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This study proposes an explanation for textual performance grounded in communicative relationality. Specifically, genre is theorized as a form of textual agency whereby generic texts and organizational actors form agential-performative relationships…
Author(s): Jody L. Jahn
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The Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge (BANWR) in southern Arizona was established in 1985 to provide habitat for threatened and endangered plant and animal species, with an emphasis on the critically endangered masked bobwhite quail (Colinus…
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