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Kaur, Sood
Wildfires are exorbitantly cataclysmic disasters that lead to the destruction of forest cover, wildlife, land resources, human assets, reduced soil fertility and global warming. Every year wildfires wreck havoc across the globe. Therefore, there is…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
McCumber, King
Should you help a wild rabbit fleeing a wall of flame? What is our responsibility to wildlife affected by wildfire? This paper focuses on two cases of ad hoc public aid to wildlife that occurred during California's 2017 'Thomas Fire' and were…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Piñon-juniper vegetation types, including juniper woodland and savannah, piñon-juniper, and piñon woodland, cover approximately 40 million ha in the western United States, where they provide ecosystem services, wildlife habitat, and cultural and…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Steiner, Wetter, Robertson, Teet, Wang, Wu, Zhou, Brown, Xiao
Devastating wildfires in Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas in 2016 and 2017 resulted in significant social, economic, and environmental losses, with the agricultural sector among those severely affected. Several satellite-based indices were evaluated as…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Bard, Cain
The combined effects of long-term fire suppression, logging, and overgrazing have negatively impacted many southwestern U.S. forests, resulting in decreased habitat quality for wildlife, and more frequent and severe wildfires. In response, land…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Hislop, Haywood, Jones, Soto-Berelov, Skidmore, Nguyen
The regular and consistent measurements provided by Earth observation satellites can support the monitoring and reporting of forest indicators. Although substantial scientific literature espouses the capabilities of satellites in this area, the…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Geary, Doherty, Nimmo, Tulloch, Ritchie
Knowledge of how disturbances such as fire shape habitat structure and composition, and affect animal interactions, is fundamental to ecology and ecosystem management. Predators also exert strong effects on ecological communities, through top‐down…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
Sitters, Di Stefano
Globally, the mean abundance of terrestrial animals has fallen by 50% since 1970, and populations face ongoing threats associated with habitat loss, fragmentation, climate change and disturbance. Climate change can influence the quality of remaining…
Year: 2020
Type: Document
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
Sharma, Rani, Memon
One of the most ubiquitous cause of worldwide deforestation and devastation of wildlife is fire. To control fire and reach the forest area in time is not always possible. Consequently, the level of destruction is often high. Therefore, predicting…
Year: 2020
Type: Document