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Addressing wildfire is not simply a fire management, fire operations, or wildland-urban interface problem - it is a larger, more complex land management and societal issue. The vision for the next century is to: Safely and effectively extinguish…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Falk, Heyerdahl, Brown, Farris, Fulé, McKenzie, Swetnam, Taylor, Van Horne
Anticipating future forest-fire regimes under changing climate requires that scientists and natural resource managers understand the factors that control fire across space and time. Fire scars -- proxy records of fires, formed in the growth rings of…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Clifford, Cobb, Buenemann
Woody vegetation has expanded in coverage over the past century in many places globally, exemplified by pinyon-juniper changes in the Southwestern United States. Extreme drought is one of the few non-management drivers besides fire that might…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Lindsay, Bailey, Lance, Clifford, Delph, Cobb
Nonnative Lehmann lovegrass (Eragrostis lehmanniana) has invaded large areas of the Southwestern United States, and its impact on native plants is not fully understood. Palmer's agave (Agave palmeri), an important resource for many pollinators, is a…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Dillon, Morgan, Holden
From the text ... 'Each year, large areas are burned in wildfires across the Western United States. Assessing the ecological effects of these fires is crucial to effective postfire management. This requires accurate, efficient, and economical…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Wallenius
Steep decline in forest fires about a century ago occurred in coniferous forests over large areas in North America and Fennoscandia. This poorly understood phenomenon has been explained by different factors in different regions. The objective of…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Schoennagel, Nelson
The US National Fire Plan (NFP) is among the largest forest-restoration initiatives worldwide, removing wildland fuels on about 11 million hectares and costing over $6 billion. We evaluated the extent to which areas treated under the NFP from 2004…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Jenkins, Sieg, Anderson, Kaufman, Pearthree
Long-term fire history reconstructions enhance our understanding of fire behavior and associated geomorphic hazards in forested ecosystems. We used 14C ages on charcoal from fire-induced debris-flow deposits to date prehistoric fires on Kendrick…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Hampton, Sesnie, Bailey, Snider
Thinning treatments focused on small-diameter trees have been designed to restore fire-adapted ponderosa pine ecosystems. Estimating the volume of wood byproducts derived from treatments can assist with agency planning of multiyear thinning…
Year: 2011
Type: Document
Glick
From the text ... 'Welcome to the new era of 'megafires,' which rage with such intensity that no human force can put them out. Their main causes, climate change and fire suppression, are fueling a heated debate about how to stop them.'
Year: 2011
Type: Document