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Serotinous cones, those that remain closed until heated, confer post-disturbance resilience on many lodgepole pine forests throughout the Southern Rockies. The record-breaking extent of wildfires in northern Colorado and southern Wyoming in 2020…
Author(s): Charles C. Rhoades, Timothy S. Fegel, Robert M. Hubbard, Marin Chambers
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This review synthesizes the scientific literature on fuel treatment economics published since 2013 with a focus on its implications for land managers and policy makers. We review the literature on whether fuel treatments are financially viable for…
Author(s): Molly E. Hunter, Michael H. Taylor
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Background Smoke from wildfires is a growing public health risk due to the enormous amount of smoke-related pollution that is produced and can travel thousands of kilometers from its source. While many studies have documented the physical health…
Author(s): David Eisenman, Lindsay P. Galway
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This study investigates experimentally the fuel bed width effect on concurrent flame spread over discrete fuels. Two representative configurations, dense arrays spaced 3 mm and loose arrays spaced 6 mm, are concerned herein. Regular birch rod arrays…
Author(s): Rongwei Bu, Chuangang Fan, Yang Zhou
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Firebrands play a vital role in the propagation of fire by starting new fires called spotfires, ahead of the fire front during wildfire progression. Firebrands are a harbinger of damage to infrastructure; their effects particularly pose a threat to…
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Wildland fires are a major source of gases and aerosols, and the production, dispersion, and transformation of fire emissions have significant ambient air quality impacts and climate interactions. The increase in wildfire area burned and severity…
Author(s): Shawn P. Urbanski, Russell W. Long, Hannah Halliday, Emily Lincoln, Andrew Habel, Matthew S. Landis
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Bark beetle outbreaks and wildfires are two of the most prevalent disturbances that influence tree mortality, regeneration, and successional trajectories in western North American forests. Subboreal forests have experienced broad overlaps in these…
Author(s): Anna C. Talucci, Garrett W. Meigs, Anders Knudby, Meg A. Krawchuk
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This review synthesizes the scientific literature on fuel treatment economics published since 2013 with a focus on its implications for land managers and policy makers. We review the literature on whether fuel treatments are financially viable for…
Author(s): Molly E. Hunter, Michael H. Taylor
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This study sought to examine how operational demands hinder individual well-being in firefighters, and also the extent to which fire chiefs’ transformational leadership style acts as an operational resource to attenuate this relationship. A total of…
Author(s): Pedro Marques-Quinteiro, Maria Jose Chambel, Andre Maio
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Increased wildfire frequency and associated replacement of sagebrush (Artemisia spp.) with invasive annual grasses contribute to declines of greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus; hereafter, sage-grouse) populations across the Great Basin.…
Author(s): Ian F. Dudley, Peter S. Coates, Brian G. Prochazka, Dawn Davis, Scott C. Gardner, David J. Delehanty
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Forest biological disturbance agents (BDAs) are insects, pathogens, and parasitic plants that affect tree decline, mortality, and forest ecosystems processes. BDAs are commonly thought to increase the likelihood and severity of fire by converting…
Author(s): David C. Shaw, Peter A. Beedlow, E.Henry Lee, David R. Woodruff, Garrett W. Meigs, Stephen J. Calkins, Matthew J. Reilly, Andrew G. Merschel, Steven P. Cline, Randy L. Comeleo
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As 21st-century climate and fire activity depart from historical baselines, effects on forests are uncertain. Forest managers need to predict and monitor forest recovery and fuel accumulation to anticipate future fire behavior and plan appropriate…
Author(s): Kristin H. Braziunas, Monica G. Turner
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Background: Remotely sensed burned area products are critical to support fire modelling, policy, and management but often require further processing before use. Aim: We calculated fire history metrics from the Landsat Burned Area Product (1984-2020…
Author(s): Melanie K. Vanderhoof, Todd J. Hawbaker, Casey Teske, Joe Nobel, Jim Smith
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Background: Media wildfire coverage can shape public knowledge on fire-related issues, and potentially influence management decisions, so understanding the content of its coverage is important. Previous research examining media wildfire coverage has…
Author(s): Sonya Sachdeva, Sarah M. McCaffrey
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Background: Wildfire mitigation is becoming increasingly urgent, but despite the availability of mitigation tools, such as prescribed fire, managed wildfire, and mechanical thinning, the USA has been unable to scale up mitigation. Limited agency…
Author(s): Laurie Yung, Benjamin Gray, Carina Wyborn, Brett A. Miller, Daniel R. Williams, Maureen Essen
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Background: Wildland fires are fundamentally landscape phenomena, making it imperative to evaluate wildland fire strategic goals and fuel treatment effectiveness at large spatial and temporal scales. Outside of simulation models, there is limited…
Author(s): Sharon M. Hood, J. Morgan Varner, Theresa B. Jain, Jeffrey M. Kane
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The biogeochemical signature of fire shapes the functioning of many ecosystems. Fire changes nutrient cycles not only by volatilizing plant material, but also by altering organic matter decomposition—a process regulated by soil extracellular enzyme…
Author(s): Yong Zhou, Arielle Biro, Michelle Y. Wong, Sarah A. Batterman, A. Carla Staver
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Postfire recovery of fire-adapted forests remains uncertain as climate and fire regimes continue to change. Areas of poor postfire tree regeneration following late-20th-century fires may reveal characteristics associated with increased vulnerability…
Author(s): Nathan G. Kiel, Monica G. Turner
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Smouldering peat fires are responsible for regional haze episodes and cause environmental, social and health crises. Owing to the unique burning characteristics of smouldering peat, identifying and detecting this kind of fire remains a challenge.…
Author(s): Yuqi Hu, Guillermo Rein
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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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