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The 2001 Forest Service Roadless Rule prohibits roadbuilding in forests across an area equivalent to the combined states of New York and Maine (236 000 km2). There have been recent assertions that roads are needed to prevent fire and to keep forests…
Author(s): Sean P. Healey
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After a more than a century of fighting to keep fire out of forests, reintroducing it is now an important management goal. Yet changes over the past century have left prescribed burning with a big job to do. Development, wildfire suppression, rising…
Author(s): Sylvia Kantor, Becky K. Kerns, Michelle A. Day
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Because wildfires don’t stop at ownership boundaries, managers from governmental and nongovernmental organizations in Northern Colorado are taking steps to pro-actively “co-manage” wildfire risk through the Northern Colorado Fireshed Collaborative (…
Author(s): Tony S. Cheng, Michael D. Caggiano
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Stand-replacing fires burned at 100 to 300-year intervals for millennia in subalpine conifer forests of western North America, but forests are burning more frequently as climate warms. Postfire tree regeneration is reduced when young forests reburn…
Author(s): Tyler J. Hoecker, Winslow D. Hansen, Monica G. Turner
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Purpose of Review: Science plays a critical role in natural resource management, and the use of science in decision-making is mandated by several policy initiatives. Other disciplines have documented the challenges associated with applying science…
Author(s): Molly E. Hunter, Melanie M. Colavito, Vita Wright
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Variations in global patterns of burning and fire regimes are relatively well measured, however, the degree of influence of the complex suite of biophysical and human drivers of fire remains controversial and incompletely understood. Such an…
Author(s): Hamish G. Clarke, Trent D. Penman, Matthias M. Boer, Geoffrey J. Cary, Joseph B. Fontaine, Owen F. Price, Ross A. Bradstock
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With the increase in commercially available small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS), new observations in extreme environments are becoming more obtainable. One such application is the fire environment, wherein measuring both fire and atmospheric…
Author(s): Matthew J. Brewer, Craig B. Clements
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Wildfire affects landscape ecohydrologic processes through feedbacks between fire effects, vegetation growth and water availability. Despite the links between these processes, fire is rarely incorporated dynamically into ecohydrologic models, which…
Author(s): Ryan R. Bart, Maureen C. Kennedy, Christina Tague, Donald McKenzie
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Background: Prairie-forest ecotones are ecologically important for biodiversity and ecological processes. While these ecotones cover small areas, their sharp gradients in land cover promote rich ecological interaction and high conservation value.…
Author(s): Penelope Morgan, Emily K. Heyerdahl, Eva K. Strand, Stephen C. Bunting, James P. Riser, John T. Abatzoglou, Max W. Nielsen-Pincus, Mara Johnson
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Wildfire is a natural element of many ecosystems as well as a natural disaster to be prevented. Climate and land usage changes have increased the number and size of wildfires in the last few decades. In this situation, governments must be able to…
Author(s): Adán Rodríguez-Martínez, Begoña Vitoriano
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Previous research has demonstrated that remote sensing can provide spectral information related to vegetation moisture variations essential for estimating live fuel moisture content (LFMC), but accuracy and timeliness still present challenges to…
Author(s): Eva Marino, Marta Yebra, Mariluz Guillén-Climent, Nur Algeet, José Luis Tomé, Javier Madrigal, Mercedes Guijarro, Carmen Hernando
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Highlights: • LiDAR technology is a municipality tool to map forest continuity in a wildland–urban interface. • Mapping forest continuity of urban parcels permits prioritisation of intervention efforts to prevent forest fires. • Moran's I permits…
Author(s): Anna Badia, Meritxell Gisbert
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The propagation of a forest fire can be described by a convection–diffusion–reaction problem in two spatial dimensions, where the unknowns are the local temperature and the portion of fuel consumed as functions of spatial position and time. This…
Author(s): Raimund Bürger, Elvis Gavilán, Daniel Inzunza, Pep Mulet, Luis Miguel Villada
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The Lion Fire 2011 (LF11) and Lion Fire 2017 (LF17) were similar in size, location, and smoke transport. The same locations were used to monitor both fires for ground level fine particulate matter (PM2.5). Ground level PM2.5 is used to determine the…
Author(s): Don Schweizer, Ricardo Cisneros, Kathleen M. Navarro
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Fire management agencies use fire behaviour simulation tools to predict the potential spread of a fire in both risk planning and operationally during wildfires. These models are generally based on underlying empirical or quasi-empirical relations…
Author(s): Trent D. Penman, Dan Ababei, Jane G. Cawson, Brett Cirulis, Thomas J. Duff, W. Swedosh, J. E. Hilton
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COVID-19 has complicated wildfire management and public safety for the 2020 fire season. It is unclear whether COVID-19 has impacted the ability of residents in the wildland–urban interface to prepare for and evacuate from wildfire, or the extent to…
Author(s): Catrin Edgeley, Jack T. Burnett
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High-severity wildfires, which can homogenize floral communities, are becoming more common relative to historic mixed-severity fire regimes in the Northern Rockies of the U.S. High-severity wildfire could negatively affect bumble bees, which are…
Author(s): Michael P. Simanonok, Laura A. Burkle
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The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and the potential for co-occurring wildfires pose health threats to people around the globe. Along with the direct impacts of wildfires, exposure to fine particulate matter (PM 2.5)—pollution composed of small inhalable…
Author(s): Francisca N. Santana, Stephanie L. Fischer, Marika O. Jaeger, Gabrielle Wong-Parodi
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One of the primary conservation threats surrounding sagebrush (Artemisia spp.) ecosystems in the Intermountain West of the United States is the expansion and infilling of pinyon pine (Pinus edulis, P. monophylla) and juniper (Juniperus spp.)…
Author(s): Jason R. Reinhardt, Steven K. Filippelli, Michael J. Falkowski, Brady W. Allred, Jeremy D. Maestas, John Carlson, David E. Naugle
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Climate drives the coevolution of vegetation and the soil that supports it. Wildfire dramatically affects many key eco‐hydro‐geomorphic processes but its potential role in coevolution of soil‐forest systems has been largely overlooked. The steep…
Author(s): Assaf Inbar, Petter Nyman, Patrick N. J. Lane, Gary J. Sheridan
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