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The contribution of Indigenous stewardship to an historical mixed-severity fire regime in British Columbia, Canada

Copes-Gerbitz, Daniels, Hagerman
Indigenous land stewardship and mixed-severity fire regimes both promote landscape heterogeneity, and the relationship between them is an emerging area of research. In our study, we reconstructed the historical fire regime of Ne Sextsine, a 5900-ha…
Type: Document
Year: 2023

The Longleaf Tree-Ring Network: reviewing and expanding the utility of Pinus palustris Mill. Dendrochronological data

Harley, Therrell, Maxwell, Bhuta, Bregy, Heeter, Patterson, Rochner, Rother, Stambaugh, Zampieri, Altman, Collins-Key, Gentry, Guiterman, Huffman, Johnson, King, Larson, Leland, Nguyen, Pederson, Puhlick, Rao, Catón, Sakulich, Singh, Tucker, van de Gevel, Kaiser, Ahmad
The longleaf pine (Pinus palustris Mill.) and related ecosystem is an icon of the southeastern United States (US). Once covering an estimated 37 million ha from Texas to Florida to Virginia, the near-extirpation of, and subsequent restoration…
Type: Document
Year: 2023

The REBURN model: simulating system-level forest succession and wildfire dynamics

Prichard, Salter, Hessburg, Povak, Gray
Background: Historically, reburn dynamics from cultural and lightning ignitions were central to the ecology of fire in the western United States (wUS), whereby past fire effects limited future fire growth and severity. Over millennia, reburns…
Type: Document
Year: 2023

The scientific value of fire in wilderness

Kreider, Jaffe, Berkey, Parks, Larson
Background: Wilderness areas are important natural laboratories for scientists and managers working to understand fire. In the last half-century, shifts in the culture and policy of land management agencies have facilitated the management practice…
Type: Document
Year: 2023

Trends, impacts, and cost of catastrophic and frequent wildfires in the sagebrush biome

Crist, Belger, Davies, Davis, Meldrum, Shinneman, Remington, Welty, Mayer
Fire regimes in sagebrush (Artemisia spp.) ecosystems have been greatly altered across the western United States. Broad-scale invasion of non-native annual grasses, climate change, and human activities have accelerated wildfire cycles, increased…
Type: Document
Year: 2023

Understanding the Black Summer bushfires through research: a summary of key findings from the Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC

The report – Understanding the Black Summer bushfires through research: a summary of key findings from the Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC – presents findings from 23 projects within four research themes, covering different issues and knowledge…
Type: Document
Year: 2023

Using a demographic model to project the long-term effects of fire management on tree biomass in Australian savannas

Murphy, Whitehead, Evans, Yates, Edwards, MacDermott, Lynch, Russell-Smith
Tropical savannas are characterized by high primary productivity and high fire frequency, such that much of the carbon captured by vegetation is rapidly returned to the atmosphere. Hence, there have been suggestions that management-driven reductions…
Type: Document
Year: 2023

Using culturally significant birds to guide the timing of prescribed fires in the Klamath Siskiyou bioregion

Long, Lake, Stephens, Alexander, Ralph, Wolfe
Historically, wildfire and tribal burning practices played important roles in shaping ecosystems throughout the Klamath Siskiyou Bioregion of northern California and southern Oregon. Over the past several decades, there has been increased interest…
Type: Document
Year: 2023

Wildfire and Climate Change Adaptation of Western North American Forests: A Case for Proactive Management

Prichard, Hagmann, Hessburg
Climate change and wildfires pose an existential threat to western North American forests, a reality which necessitates place-based strategies to increase their resilience – if forests are to be widely conserved. EuroAmerican colonization,…
Type: Media
Year: 2023

'Right-way' science: reflections on co-developing Indigenous and Western cross-cultural knowledge to support Indigenous cultural fire management

McKemey, Rangers, Costello, Hunter, Ens
Contemporary Indigenous cultural fire management facilitates opportunities for Indigenous peoples to connect to and manage their Country, as well as providing scope for research. Right-way science is defined as collaborative process of bringing…
Type: Document
Year: 2022