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The use of masticated tree debris to protect burned soil from post-fire erosion is not common and very little is known about its effectiveness in reducing the risk of erosion after fire. The main objective of this research was to assess the effects…
Author(s): Cristina Fernández
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Background: Wildfire often shows complex dynamic behaviour due to the inherent nature of ambient conditions, vegetation and ignition patterns. Merging fire is one such dynamic behaviour that plays a critical role in the safety of structures and…
Author(s): Rahul Wadhwani, Duncan Sutherland, K. A. M. Moinuddin, Xinyan Huang
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Although the threat of forest fires is prevalent across the globe, there exists limited empirical evidence on how such environmental disasters influence access and equity in educational outcomes through economic channels. In this article, I combine…
Author(s): Jayash Paudel
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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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In this work, a series of laboratory surface fire experiments were performed over a pine needle fuel bed to investigate the effectiveness of a firebreak and the behaviors of a surface fire across a firebreak. Seven wind velocities of 0~3.0 m/s and…
Author(s): Hanwen Guo, Zhengyuan Yang, Ziqun Ye, Dong Xiang, Yunji Gao, Yuchun Zhang
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Background: Wildland firefighters have physically and psychologically demanding jobs that can result in social, economic and health-related stress. Previous studies have examined the physiological and physical effects of a career in wildland fire,…
Author(s): Rachel M. Granberg, Ting Shen, Seth W. Pearson, Robin M. Verble
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In wildland–urban interface areas, firefighters balance wildfire suppression and structure protection. These tasks are often performed under resource limitations, especially when many structures are at risk. To address this problem, wildland…
Author(s): Alexander Joseph Heeren, Philip E. Dennison, Michael J. Campbell, Matthew P. Thompson
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Background Sagebrush shrublands in the Great Basin, USA, are experiencing widespread increases in wildfire size and area burned resulting in new policies and funding to implement fuel treatments. However, we lack the spatial data needed to optimize…
Author(s): Jeanne C. Chambers, Jessi L. Brown, Matthew C. Reeves, Eva K. Strand, Lisa M. Ellsworth, Claire Tortorelli, Alexandra K. Urza, Karen C. Short
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There is a dire need to improve our prediction capabilities of wildland fire behavior in a range of conditions from marginal burning to the most extreme. In order to develop a more physically-based operational wildland fire behavior model, we need…
Author(s): Sara S. McAllister, Torben Grumstrup
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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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Predicting current and future wildfire frequency and size is central to wildfire control and management. Multiple fire danger indices (FDIs) that incorporate weather and fuel conditions have been developed and utilized to support wildfire…
Author(s): Guo Yu, Yan Feng, Jiali Wang, Daniel B. Wright
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Mulch application following wildfire is increasingly being used to mitigate hillslope runoff and erosion. A mulch coverage of 70% has been proven to be effective in reducing sediment losses; however, most previous studies test only a single slope…
Author(s): Lindsey A. Hayter, Peter A. Nelson
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Background With the increase in forest fire emissions, an increasing amount of nitrogen is released from combustibles and taken up by plant leaves in the form of PM2.5 smoke deposition. Concurrently, the stress from PM2.5 also disrupts the…
Author(s): Haichuan Lin, Yuanfan Ma, Pingxin Zhao, Ziyan Huang, Xiaoyu Zhan, Mulualem Tigabu, Futao Guo
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This systematic literature review focused on the following questions: 1. What is Indigenous fire stewardship and how has it been represented in peer reviewed literature? 2. What are the salient social issues, debates, and concerns about IFS and its…
Author(s): Michael R. Coughlan, Naomi Serio, Harper Loeb, David G. Lewis, Sally Thompson
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Fuel is the part of the fire behavior triangle that we can directly affect. So, we know that we need to get more proactive with fuels treatments and prescribed fire if we want to get a better handle on the fire situation. As we shift towards more…
Author(s): Russell A. Parsons, Lucas Wells, Anthony Marcozzi, Rodman Linn, J. Kevin Hiers, F. Pimont, Karen L. Riley, Ilkay Altintas, Sarah Flanary
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Runoff-generated debris flows are a potentially destructive and deadly response to wildfire until sufficient vegetation and soil-hydraulic recovery have reduced susceptibility to the hazard. Elevated debris-flow susceptibility may persist for…
Author(s): Andrew Graber, Matthew A. Thomas, Jason W. Kean
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Climate warming, land use change, and altered fire regimes are driving ecological transformations that can have critical effects on Earth's biota. Fire refugia - locations that are burned less frequently or severely than their surroundings - may act…
Author(s): Kyle Rodman, Kimberly T. Davis, Sean A. Parks, Teresa B. Chapman, Jonathan D. Coop, Jose M. Iniguez, John Paul Roccaforte, Andrew Sanchez Meador, Judith D. Springer, Camille Stevens-Rumann, Michael T. Stoddard, Amy E. M. Waltz, Tzeidle N. Wasserman
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Background: Planting tree seedlings may help promote forest recovery after extensive high-severity wildfire. We evaluated the influence of growing environment characteristics on the performance of seedlings planted in the 2016 Cold Springs Fire,…
Author(s): Laura A. Marshall, Paula J. Fornwalt, Camille Stevens-Rumann, Kyle Rodman, Charles C. Rhoades, Kevin Zimlinghaus, Teresa B. Chapman, Catherine A. Schloegel
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For the past 20 to 30 years, a wildfire crisis has been building in the West as wildfires have grown in size, duration, and destructivity despite highly effective suppression responses by the USDA Forest Service and others in the wildland fire…
Author(s): Hutch Brown
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Background: Plant flammability is an important factor in fire behaviour and post-fire ecological responses. There is consensus about the broad attributes (or axes) of flammability but little consistency in their measurement. Aims: We sought to…
Author(s): Jane G. Cawson, Jamie E. Burton, Bianca J. Pickering, Vana Demetriou, Alexander I. Filkov
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