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Stasiewicz, Paveglio
Increased wildfire activity has led to renewed interest in enhancing local capacity to reduce wildfire risk in residential areas. Local fire departments (LFDs) are often the first responders to rural wildfires. However, LFDs may also struggle to…
Type: Document
Year: 2022
Manton, Ruffner, Kibirkštis, Brazaitis, Marozas, Pukienė, Makrickiene, Angelstam
Fire is an important natural disturbance and a driver of hemi-boreal forest successional trajectories, structural complexity, and biodiversity. Understanding the historic fire regime is an important step towards sustainable forest management.…
Type: Document
Year: 2022
Amoako, Gambiza
Understanding people’s practices, knowledge and perceptions of the use of fire and fire regimes can inform fire management plans that could contribute to savanna conservation and sustainable management. We investigated the frequency of fire use,…
Type: Document
Year: 2022
Price, Nolan, Samson
Accurate estimation of emissions from biomass burning and their impact on carbon storage requires pre and post-fire plot measurement of fuel consumption across a range of forest types and fire severities, and this information is currently far from…
Type: Document
Year: 2022
Cleveland
As Hawaiʻi land managers know all too well, natural and cultural resource stewardship can be a daunting undertaking involving many stakeholders from different backgrounds taking into account complex social, cultural, and ecological considerations.…
Type: Media
Year: 2022
Magalhães Neto, Evangelista
The Pantanal natural region in South America is the largest wetland worldwide. Due to floods and a diverse lithology, this wetland area exhibits high plant and animal biodiversity levels and encompasses more than 185,000 km2. In 2020, the…
Type: Document
Year: 2022
Lavers, Carey, Guilfoyle, Reynolds
Traditional burning regimes have long been employed to enhance biodiversity and mitigate high-intensity wildfires. The link between changes in the distribution, success, and timing of breeding in seabirds and climatic and oceanographic variation in…
Type: Document
Year: 2022
Increase in infected corneal ulcerations in dogs during the northern Colorado’s 2020 wildfire season
Objective
In the fall of 2020, Colorado experienced the two largest wildfires in state history. The smoke blanketed the college town of Fort Collins, Colorado, the location of the Veterinary Teaching Hospital at Colorado State University (CSU-VTH).…
Type: Document
Year: 2022
Roos, Guiterman, Margolis, Laluk, Thompson, Toya, Farris, Fulé, Iniguez, Kaib, O'Connor, Whitehair
Prior research suggests that Indigenous fire management buffers climate influences on wildfires, but it is unclear whether these benefits accrue across geographic scales. We use a network of 4824 fire-scarred trees in Southwest United States dry…
Type: Document
Year: 2022
Rodrigues, Lullfitz, Coyne, Dean, Eades, Flowers, Pettersen, Woods, Hopper
Protection of biodiversity, human assets, and cultural heritage pose significant challenges to contemporary planning of bushfire mitigation activities. Current mitigation approaches are not always appropriate, and mismanagement is a source of…
Type: Document
Year: 2022