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Pollution from wildfires constitutes a growing source of poor air quality globally. To protect health, governments largely rely on citizens to limit their own wildfire smoke exposures, but the effectiveness of this strategy is hard to observe. Using…
Author(s): Marshall Burke, Sam Heft-Neal, Jessica Li, Anne Driscoll, Patrick Baylis, Matthieu Stigler, Joakim A. Weill, Jennifer Burney, Marissa L. Childs, Carlos F. Gould
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Background ‘Megafire’ is an emerging concept commonly used to describe fires that are extreme in terms of size, behaviour, and/or impacts, but the term’s meaning remains ambiguous. Approach We sought to resolve ambiguity surrounding the meaning of ‘…
Author(s): Grant D. Linley, Chris J. Jolly, Tim S. Doherty, William L. Geary, Dolors Armenteras, Claire M. Belcher, Rebecca Bliege Bird, Andrea Duane, Michael-Shawn Fletcher, Melisa A. Giorgis, Angie Haslem, Gavin M. Jones, Luke T. Kelly, Calvin F. K. Lee, Rachael H. Nolan, Catherine L. Parr, Juli G. Pausas, Jodi N. Price, Adrián Regos, Euan G. Ritchie, Julien Ruffault, Grant J. Williamson, Qianhan Wu, Dale G. Nimmo
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Forest fires are key ecosystem modifiers affecting the biological, chemical, and physical attributes of forest soils. The extent of soil disturbance by fire is largely dependent on fire intensity, duration and recurrence, fuel load, and soil…
Author(s): Alex Amerh Agbeshie, Simon Abugre, Thomas Atta-Darkwa, Richard Awuah
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Researchers and practitioners often emphasize the importance of effective community engagement around forest management projects to address possible barriers to implementation related to a lack of social acceptance. Using qualitative methods, we…
Author(s): Katie McGrath Novak, Sarah M. McCaffrey, Courtney Schultz
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Data on wildfire growth are useful for multiple research purposes but are frequently unavailable and often have data quality problems. For these reasons, we developed a protocol for collecting daily burned area time series from the InciWeb website,…
Author(s): Harry Podschwit, Brian E. Potter, Narasimhan K. Larkin
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Wildland fuels, defined as the combustible biomass of live and dead vegetation, are foundational to fire behavior, ecological effects, and smoke modeling. Along with weather and topography, the composition, structure and condition of wildland fuels…
Author(s): Susan J. Prichard, Eric Rowell, Andrew T. Hudak, Robert E. Keane, E. Louise Loudermilk, Duncan C. Lutes, Roger D. Ottmar, Linda M. Chappell, John Hall, Benjamin Hornsby
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Based on analysis of the interaction between a spreading fire and its surrounding environment, in nominally constant and uniform boundary conditions, it is observed that the evolution of the fire front is characterised by fluctuations of its…
Author(s): Domingos Xavier Viegas, Jorge R. Raposo, Carlos Ribeiro, Luís Carlos Duarte Reis, Abdelrahman Abouali, Luís M. Ribeiro, Carlos Viegas
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Active forest restoration programs on western US national forests face multiple challenges to meet their broad ecological goals while designing projects that generate sufficient revenue to build and maintain private forest management capacity needed…
Author(s): Pedro Belavenutti, Alan A. Ager, Michelle A. Day, Woodam Chung
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Over the past several decades, the management of historically frequent-fire forests in the western U.S. has received significant attention due to the linked ecological and social risks posed by the increased occurrence of large, contiguous patches…
Author(s): Scott M. Ritter, Chad M. Hoffman, Michael A. Battaglia, Theresa B. Jain
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Purpose of Review Fire and insects are major disturbances in North American forests. We reviewed literature on the effects of fire on bark beetles, defoliators, and pollinators, as well as on the effects of bark beetle and defoliator epidemics on…
Author(s): Christopher J. Fettig, Justin B. Runyon, Crystal S. Homicz, Patrick M. A. James, Michael D. Ulyshen
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Managing wildfire risk across boundaries and scales is critical in fire-prone landscapes around the world, as a variety of actors undertake mitigation and response activities according to jurisdictional, conceptual and administrative boundaries,…
Author(s): Heidi Huber-Stearns, Emily Jane Davis, Anthony S. Cheng, A. Deak
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The current study presents a series of experiments investigating the smoldering behavior of woody fuel arrays at various porosities under the influence of wind. Wildland fuels are simulated using wooden cribs burned inside a bench scale wind tunnel…
Author(s): J. Cobian-Iniguez, Franz Richter, Luca Camignani, Christina Liveretou, Hanyu Xiong, Scott L. Stephens, Mark A. Finney, Michael J. Gollner, A. Carlos Fernandez-Pello
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In 2016, the US Forest Service initiated small-group safety discussions among members of its wildland firefighting organisation. Known as the Life First National Engagement Sessions, the discussions presented an opportunity for wildland firefighters…
Author(s): David Flores, Emily Haire
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Whitebark pine (Pinus albicaulis Engelm.) is an ecologically important subalpine and treeline forest tree of the western U.S. and Canada. It is categorized as endangered by the IUCN and by Canada under the Species at Risk Act and was recently…
Author(s): Diana F. Tomback, Robert E. Keane, Anna W. Schoettle, Richard A. Sniezko, Melissa Jenkins, Cara R. Nelson, A. D. Bower, Clay R. DeMastus, Emily Guiberson, Jodie Krakowski, Michael P. Murray, Elizabeth R. Pansing, Julee Shamhart
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Background: Mountain pine beetle (MPB) is a native disturbance agent across most pine forests in the western US. Climate changes will directly and indirectly impact frequencies and severities of MPB outbreaks, which can then alter fuel…
Author(s): Robert E. Keane, Barbara J. Bentz, Lisa M. Holsinger, Victoria A. Saab, Rachel A. Loehman
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Fire is a natural ecosystem process that helps maintain and revitalize healthy landscapes, but wildfires can pose significant threats to public and firefighter safety, property, water and air quality, and other values. Finding an appropriate balance…
Author(s): Matthew P. Thompson, David L. Martell, Erin J. Belval
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Ecological resilience is the capacity of a system to maintain function following disturbance. With the frequency and severity of wildfire activity increasing due to warmer and drier global climate conditions, there are increasing reports of declines…
Author(s): Rebecca K. Gibson, Laura White, Samuel Hislop, Rachael H. Nolan, Josh Dorrough
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Background: Model simulations of wildfire spread and assessments of their accuracy are needed for understanding and managing altered fire regimes in semiarid regions. The accuracy of wildfire spread simulations can be evaluated from post hoc…
Author(s): Samuel Price, Matthew J. Germino
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Background: Adverse effects of wildfires can be mitigated within fuel treatments, but empirical evidence of their effectiveness across large areas is needed to guide design and implementation at the landscape level. We conducted a systematic…
Author(s): Shawn T. McKinney, Ilana L. Abrahamson, Theresa B. Jain, Nathaniel Anderson
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There remains a high level of ambiguity around post-fire grazing management. The Lodgepole Complex fire burned 109,346 ha in east-central Montana in July 2017, including areas previously burned in 2003 by the Bureau of Land Management for fuels…
Author(s): Amanda R. Williams, Lance T. Vermeire, Richard C. Waterman, Clayton B. Marlow
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