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Garner, Maestas, Mealor, Rutledge
The Western Governors’ Association hosted a webinar to launch a new Toolkit for Invasive Annual Grass Management in the West on Thursday, July 23. WGA and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), under a Shared Stewardship Memorandum of…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Owen, Sieg, Fulé, Gehring, Baggett, Iniguez, Fornwalt, Battaglia
Several recent studies have documented how fire severity affects the density and spatial patterns of tree regeneration in western North American ponderosa pine forests. However, less is known about the effects of fire severity on fine-scale tree…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Huffman, Roccaforte, Springer, Crouse
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Frequent-fire forests of the western United States have undergone remarkable changes in structure, composition, and function due to historical exclusion of naturally occurring fire. Mechanized tree thinning to reduce forest density and…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Wasserman
Wildfire is a natural disturbance and ecological process in forested ecosystems across the western United States. However, warmer temperatures, frequent droughts, and legacies of past land management are impacting western forests, leaving them at a…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Crist
Invasive annual grasses are quickly expanding across the West, dramatically changing sagebrush country. Today we are experiencing more frequent and hotter wildfires that are harmful to communities, western lands, and wildlife. Join in for this 1-…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Barga, Olwell, Edwards, Prescott, Leger
Seeds of Success (SOS) is a national seed collection program led by the Bureau of Land Management. SOS represents the most comprehensive native seed repository in the United States, supporting native plant restoration, management, and research.…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Wu, Adetona, Song, Naeher, Adetona
Wildland firefighters are directly exposed to elevated levels of wildland fire (WF) smoke. Although studies demonstrate WF smoke exposure is associated with lung function changes, few studies that use invasive sample collection methods have been…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Maczko, Hidinger, Tanaka, Morgan, Mitchell, Fox, Joyce, Duke
Rangelands encompass over 770 million acres of land in the United States, and despite their classification into a single land “type”, these U.S. rangelands occur across a variety of ecosystems and have unique vulnerabilities and suggested management…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Aslan, Dickson, Theobald, Samberg
Although the Sonoran Desert is considered a non-fire-adapted ecosystem, emergence of a novel fire regime is underway, driven by increasing strength and duration of drought as well as invasion of non-native annual plant communities. Increasingly…
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Fusco, Finn, Balch, Nagy, Bradley
Fire-prone invasive grasses create novel ecosystem threats by increasing fine-fuel loads and continuity, which can alter fire regimes. While the existence of an invasive grass-fire cycle is well known, evidence of altered fire regimes is typically…
Year: 2019
Type: Document