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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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Conifer forests of the western US (West) are largely fire adapted ecosystems that historically have recovered naturally in the years to decades following wildfire. As climate change alters the extent, frequency, and severity of wildfire, and causes…
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Conifer forests of the western US (West) are largely fire adapted ecosystems that historically have recovered naturally in the years to decades following wildfire. As climate change alters the extent, frequency, and severity of wildfire, and causes…
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Conifer forests of the western US (West) are largely fire adapted ecosystems that historically have recovered naturally in the years to decades following wildfire. As climate change alters the extent, frequency, and severity of wildfire, and causes…
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Conifer forests of the western US (West) are largely fire adapted ecosystems that historically have recovered naturally in the years to decades following wildfire. As climate change alters the extent, frequency, and severity of wildfire, and causes…
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Fire behavior and intensity vary within and between fires, mediated by factors such as slope, aspect, elevation, fuel loading and vegetation type. These influences create a mosaic of burn severity, shaping forests around the world. These burn…
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The western U.S. is experiencing increasing wildfire activity and warmer, drier climate conditions, with declining post-fire tree regeneration observed in many areas in recent years. Seedlings of mixed-conifer and subalpine forest species are…
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In fire-prone forests, postfire tree recovery may be limited by climate conditions and fire activity that exceed the range of conditions under which these forests evolved, leading to major shifts in forest structure and composition. Transformations…
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Natural disturbances serve as a driver of change, creating complexity and heterogeneity across the landscape. Ecological patterns and processes that arise from the impacts of disturbance determine the plant and animal species a landscape supports…
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Spotted knapweed (Centaurea stoebe subsp. micranthos), diffuse knapweed (C. diffusa), and yellow starthistle (C. solstitialis) are nonnative, invasive forbs that can displace native plants, reduce native plant diversity, reduce native wildlife…
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A 106 acre (43 ha) aspen clone lives in the Fishlake National Forest in south-central Utah. Clones are comprised of multiple aspen stems, called ramets, which are genetically identical. This particular colony of ramets was named “Pando” (Latin for “…
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It is common practice for land managers to thin forests in the western United States and then masticate fuels by mowing, chipping or mulching the downed trees, shrubs and herbaceous vegetation. The thinning reduces canopy fuels and then mastication…
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Forested ecosystems cover nearly one-third of Earth’s land surface and can perform an essential function as one of the globe’s largest terrestrial carbon sinks, absorbing more carbon than they release, lowering the concentration of carbon dioxide in…
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The frequency of catastrophic wildfires is increasing around the globe. Our ability to mitigate the risks associated with these fires, and the toll they take on communities, life, and the environment, will depend in large part on understanding their…
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Whitebark pine (WBP; Pinus albicaulis) is a critical keystone species of U.S. Northern Rocky Mountain subalpine ecosystems. There is growing concern that WBP may be eliminated from its current habitat over the next century due to cumulative impacts…
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There is demand for greater understanding concerning the impacts of forest management practices on water and sediment yield in the mountainous watersheds of the Pacific Northwest. Common forest operations such as harvesting and road construction can…
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Evacuation is considered by many to be the safest action for residents to take when threatened by a wildfire. However, not all residents agree and evacuate in the face of an approaching wildfire, instead preferring to stay and defend their…
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Wildfires present an increasing threat to communities through impacts that include destruction of homes or outbuildings, evacuations, damage to public infrastructure, and economic disruption. Effective fire management entails identifying and…
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Wildfires are occurring more frequently and with greater severity domestically and around the globe. Across a series of studies, researchers at the University of Idaho set out to identify how and when climate variability affects wildfire frequency…
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The western United States has suffered increasingly disastrous wildfires in recent years. Massive wildfires have attracted considerable attention from the media and policy makers, and have renewed calls to better understand and mitigate wildfire…
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