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Bringing People Together & Sharing Knowledge in the Northern Rockies
Bringing People Together & Sharing Knowledge in the Northern Rockies
Research and Publications Database
The NRFSN research and publications database leads users to regionally relevant fire science. There are more than 3,600 documents, which have been carefully categorized by the NRFSN to highlight topics and ecosystems important in the Northern Rockies Region. Categorized resources include records from the Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP), Fire Research and Management Exchange System (FRAMES), and Fire Effects Information System (FEIS).
Note: Additional Northern Rockies fire research is available from our Webinar & Video Archive.
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189 results
New fire disturbance regimes under accelerating global environmental change can have unprecedented consequences for ecosystem resilience, lessening ecosystem natural regeneration. In the Mediterranean Basin, firedependent obligate seeder forests that are prone to increasingly frequent stand-replacing fires and then salvaged logged...
Year Published: 2018
Type: Document : Book or Chapter or Journal Article Wildfire increases the likelihood of runoff, erosion, and downstream sedimentation in many of the watersheds that supply water for Colorado’s Front Range communities. The objectives of this study were to: (1) identify rainfall intensity thresholds for a post-fire runoff or sediment delivery response at plots (≤0.06 ha), hillslopes (...
Year Published: 2018
Type: Document : Book or Chapter or Journal Article Forest wildfires consume fuel and are followed by post-fire fuel accumulation. This study examines post-fire surface fuel dynamics over 9 years across a wide range of conditions characteristic of California fires in dry conifer and hardwood forests. We estimated post-fire surface fuel loadings (Mg ha−1) from 191 repeatedly measured...
Year Published: 2018
Type: Document : Book or Chapter or Journal Article 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 for future vegetation structure and fire activity. A major uncertainty, therefore, is if...
Year Published: 2018
Type: Document : Book or Chapter or Journal Article Forested watersheds supply drinking water for millions of people in the United States. The increased frequency and severity of wildfires during recent decades have elevated public concern regarding source water protection. Large, high-severity wildfires alter the physical and biological conditions that determine how watersheds...
Year Published: 2017
Type: Document : Technical Report or White Paper Post-wildfire soil erosion can be caused by water or aeolian processes, yet most erosion research has focused on predominantly water-driven erosion. This study investigates the effectiveness of three agricultural mulches, with and without a tackifier, on aeolian sediment transport processes. A wind tunnel was used to simulate post-...
Year Published: 2017
Type: Document : Book or Chapter or Journal Article Currently, limited research on large-fire suppression effectiveness suggests fire managers may over-allocate resources relative to values to be protected. Coupled with observations that weather may be more important than resource abundance to achieve control objectives, resource use may be driven more by risk aversion than...
Year Published: 2017
Type: Document : Book or Chapter or Journal Article Broadcast mulching is a widely implemented post-fire erosion control method, although it remains uncertain how it affects post-fire regeneration in serotinous conifers. We used field data and unbiased conditional inference trees with random effects to test if mulching affects lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta Dougl. ex Loud. var....
Year Published: 2017
Type: Document : Book or Chapter or Journal Article This review summarizes pioneering fire effects research conducted from 1966-1998 on two mixed-conifer sites in western Montana. Researchers studied the effect of fuel loads and fire severity on duff reduction; fire effects to roots and rhizomes of understory species; postfire natural and artificial regeneration of conifer species;...
Year Published: 2017
Type: Document : Synthesis Logging to ‘salvage’ economic returns from forests impacted by natural disturbances has become increasingly prevalent globally. Despite potential negative effects on biodiversity, salvage logging is often conducted, even in areas otherwise excluded from logging and reserved for nature conservation, inter alia because strategic...
Year Published: 2017
Type: Document : Book or Chapter or Journal Article Pages
These resources are compiled in partnership with the Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP), Fire Research and Management Exchange System (FRAMES), and Fire Effects Information System (FEIS).
Joint Fire Science Program
The Northern Rockies Fire Science Network is one of 15 regional fire science exchanges sponsored by the Joint Fire Science Program (FireScience.gov).
