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Background: The decision making process undertaken during wildfire responses is complex and prone to uncertainty. In the US, decisions federal land managers make are influenced by numerous and often competing factors. Aims: To assess and validate…
Author(s): Stephen D. Fillmore, Sarah M. McCaffrey, Rachel Bean, Alexander M. Evans, Jose M. Iniguez, Andrea E. Thode, Alistair M. S. Smith, Matthew P. Thompson
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Background: Managing landscape fire is a complex challenge because it is simultaneously necessary for, and increasingly poses a risk to, societies and ecosystems worldwide. This challenge underscores the need for transformative change in the way…
Author(s): Kelsey Copes-Gerbitz, Ira J. Sutherland, Sarah Dickson-Hoyle, Jennifer N. Baron, Pablo Gonzalez-Moctezuma, Morgan A. Crowley, Katherine A. Kitchens, Tahia Devisscher, Judith Burr
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Wildland fire incident commanders make wildfire response decisions within an increasingly complex socio-environmental context. Threats to human safety and property, along with public pressures and agency cultures, often lead commanders to emphasize…
Author(s): Molly C. Daniels, Kristin H. Braziunas, Monica G. Turner, Ting-Fung Ma, Karen C. Short, Adena R. Rissman
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Federal agencies responsible for wildland fire management face increasing needs for personnel as fire seasons lengthen and fire size continues to grow, yet federal agencies have struggled to recruit and retain firefighting personnel. While many have…
Author(s): Erin J. Belval, Jude Bayham, Shayne Magstadt
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Background: Potential Wildfire Operational Delineations (PODs) were developed as a pre-season planning tool to promote safe and effective fire response. Past research on PODs has identified uses in an incident management context. There has been…
Author(s): William C. Buettner, Tyler A. Beeton, Courtney Schultz, Michael D. Caggiano, S. Michelle Greiner
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The use of unmanned aerial systems (UAS) by the fire service is becoming more common, especially for large outdoor fires where it is difficult to understand the state of the fire conditions or efficiently suppress the fire. The focus of this paper…
Author(s): Brian Y. Lattimer, Xinyan Huang, Michael Delichatsios, Yiannis A. Levendis, Kevin Kochersberger, Sam Manzello, Peter Frank, Tombo Jones, Jordi Salvador, Conrad Delgado, Eduard Angelats, M. Eulàlia Parés, David Martín, Sara S. McAllister, Sayaka Suzuki
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Fire management aims to change fire regimes. However, the challenge is to provide the optimal balance between the mitigation of risks to life and property, while ensuring a healthy environment and the protection of other key values in any given…
Author(s): Hamish G. Clarke, Brett Cirulis, Nicolas Borchers-Arriagada, Michael A. Storey, Mark K. J. Ooi, Katharine Haynes, Ross A. Bradstock, Owen F. Price, Trent D. Penman
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Appropriately designed fuel treatments reduce negative outcomes of wildfire and in some cases promote beneficial wildfire outcomes. Wildfires are a landscape scale phenomenon; therefore, fuel treatments should be evaluated at a landscape level to…
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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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Many fire management agencies aim to detect and suppress all ignitions within their jurisdiction and may benefit from understanding the causes of year-to-year variation. Ignition variation is likely to be associated with climatically driven changes…
Author(s): Nicholas Wilson, Marta Yebra
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Many fire management agencies aim to detect and suppress all ignitions within their jurisdiction and may benefit from understanding the causes of year-to-year variation. Ignition variation is likely to be associated with climatically driven changes…
Author(s): Nicholas Wilson, Marta Yebra
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Airtankers are commonly used for initial attack (IA) to reduce the likelihood of wildland fires escaping containment efforts. We examined IA airtanker dispatch decisions for forest fires in Ontario, Canada, through an analysis of historical fire…
Author(s): Melanie J. Wheatley, B. Mike Wotton, Douglas G. Woolford, David L. Martell, Joshua M. Johnston
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For most of the 20th century and beyond, national wildland fire policies concerning fire suppression and fuels management have primarily focused on forested lands. Using summary statistics and landscape metrics, wildfire spatial patterns and trends…
Author(s): Michele R. Crist
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Background Wildfire management is increasingly shifting from firefighting to wildfire prevention aiming at disaster risk reduction. This implies fuel and landscape management and engagement with stakeholders. This transition is comparable to the…
Author(s): Hugo A. Lambrechts, Spyridon Paparrizos, Robijn Brongersma, Carolien Kroeze, Falco Ludwig, Cathelijine Stoof
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Background Advances in fire modeling help quantify and map various components and characterizations of wildfire risk and furthermore help evaluate the ability of fuel treatments to mitigate risk. However, a need remains for guidance in designing…
Author(s): Matthew P. Thompson, Kevin C. Vogler, Joe H. Scott, Carol Miller
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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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Background: Virtually every decision within wildland fire management includes substantial ethical dimensions. As pressures increase with ever-growing fires, it is becoming increasingly important to develop tools for assessing and acting on the…
Author(s): Dyllan Goldstein, Eric B. Kennedy
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Sustainable management of complex social-ecological systems depends on understanding the effects of different drivers of change, but disentangling these effects poses a challenge. We provide a framework for quantifying the relative contributions of…
Author(s): Katherine J. Siegel, Laurel Larsen, Connor Stephens, William Stewart, Van Butsic
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hanging global fire regimes including extended fire seasons due to climate change may increase the co-occurrence of high-impact fires that overwhelm national fire suppression capacities. These shifts increase the demand for international resource…
Author(s): Sunniva Bloem, Alison Cullen, Linda Mearns, John T. Abatzoglou
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