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Mountain snowpacks provide 53–78% of water used for irrigation, municipalities, and industrial consumption in the western United States. Snowpacks serve as natural reservoirs during the winter months and play an essential role in water storage for…
Author(s): Arielle L. Koshkin, Benjamin J. Hatchett, Anne W. Nolin
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Ecologists have long debated the relative importance of biotic interactions versus species-specific habitat preferences in shaping patterns of ecological dominance. In western North America, cycles of fire disturbance are marked by transitions…
Author(s): Addison G. Allen, Zachary P. Roehrs, R. Scott Seville, Hayley C. Lanier
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The increasing wildfire activity and rapid population growth in the wildland–urban interface (WUI) have made more Americans exposed to wildfire risk. WUI mapping plays a significant role in wildfire management. This study used the Microsoft building…
Author(s): Alexander R. Ketchpaw, Dapeng Li, Shahid N. Khan, Yuhan Jiang, Yingru Li, Ling Zhang
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Seed dormancy varies greatly between species, clades, communities, and regions. We propose that fireprone ecosystems create ideal conditions for the selection of seed dormancy as fire provides a mechanism for dormancy release and postfire conditions…
Author(s): Juli G. Pausas, Byron B. Lamont
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Characterizing pre-fire fuel load and fuel consumption are critical for assessing fire behavior, fire effects, and smoke emissions. Two approaches for quantifying fuel load are airborne laser scanning (ALS) and the Fuel Characteristic Classification…
Author(s): T. Ryan McCarley, Andrew T. Hudak, Joseph C. Restaino, Michael Billmire, Nancy H. F. French, Roger D. Ottmar, Bridget Hass, Kyle Zarzana, Tristan Goulden, Rainer Volkamer
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Full suppression strategies remain the dominant option in wildfire management, despite a large body of research demonstrating the ecological and economic benefits of allowing unplanned wildfires to burn under favorable conditions. Consequently,…
Author(s): David J. Rossi, Olli-Pekka Kuusela, Christopher J. Dunn
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[from the text] Our steering committee is dedicated to advancing federal policy to support wider use of prescribed fire and wildfire managed for resource benefits. Both these uses of fire are essential tools for fuel reduction, community protection…
Author(s): Courtney Schultz, Tyson Bertone-Riggs, Susan Jane Brown, Nick Goulette, S. Michelle Greiner, Dylan Kruse, Rebecca Shively, Marek K. Smith
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As the wildland–urban interface continues to expand into fire prone areas, future wildfires will likely result in the burning of more built structures, such as the recent Marshall Fire in Colorado, which increases the complexity of the wildfire…
Author(s): Alice Gilliland, Tim Watkins
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There is a general agreement within the wildfire community that exclusively top–down approaches to policy making and management are limited and that we need to build governance capacity to cooperatively manage across jurisdictional boundaries.…
Author(s): Branda Nowell, Toddi A. Steelman, Anne-Lise Knox Velez, Kate Albrecht
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Forest biomass use for energy production is not only an increasingly popular renewable source of energy, but has also been proposed as a tool for forest management, which can help reduce the incidence of forest fires. Similarly, an adequate…
Author(s): Lígia Costa Pinto, Sara Sousa, Marieta Valente
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There are thousands of communities and millions of homes in fire-prone wildland–urban interface (WUI) environments. Although future developments may be sited and designed to be more survivable and resistant to losses, an over-arching strategy is…
Author(s): Max A. Moritz, Rob Hazard, Kelly Johnston, Marc Mayes, Molly Mowery, Katie Oran, Anne-Marie L. Parkinson, David A. Schmidt, Graham Wesolowski
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A combined imaging system that can monitor the visible flame, invisible hot flow, flame temperature and surface temperature was developed to investigate the combustion of wooden rods inclined at 30° under forced air flow. A micro wind tunnel is…
Author(s): Yufeng Lai, Xiao Wang, Thomas B.O. Rockett, Jon R. Willmott, Yang Zhang
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Wildfires emit smoke particles and gaseous pollutants that greatly aggravate air quality and cause adverse health impacts in the western US (WUS). This study evaluates how wildfire impacts on air pollutants and air toxics evolve from the present…
Author(s): Cheng-En Yang, Joshua S. Fu, Yongqiang Liu, Xingyi Dong, Yang Liu
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The COVID-19 global pandemic created dramatic change in nearly every facet of life, including how the Forest Service worked to fulfill its mission despite facing multiple unknowns fraught with risks. Preparing for and responding to wildland fire…
Author(s): Matthew P. Thompson, Donald G. MacGregor, David E. Calkin, Joel O. Iverson
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Night-time provides a critical window for slowing or extinguishing fires owing to the lower temperature and the lower vapour pressure deficit (VPD). However, fire danger is most often assessed based on daytime conditions1,2, capturing what promotes…
Author(s): Jennifer Balch, John T. Abatzoglou, Maxwell B. Joseph, Michael J. Koontz, Adam L. Mahood, Joe McGlinchy, Megan E. Cattau, A. Park Williams
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Fire is a key determinant of vegetation structure and composition in ecosystems worldwide and is therefore an important management tool. The “pyrodiversity hypothesis”, which postulates that biodiversity will increase as fire diversity increases,…
Author(s): Michael D. Ulyshen, J. Kevin Hiers, Scott M. Pokswinksi, Conor Fair
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Aim Wildfire activity in recent years is notable not only for an expansion of total area burned but also for large, single-day fire spread events that pose challenges to ecological systems and human communities. Our objectives were to gain new…
Author(s): Jonathan D. Coop, Sean A. Parks, Camille Stevens-Rumann, Scott M. Ritter, Chad M. Hoffman
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This is the second part of a series of two papers concerning fire-spotting generated fires. While, in the first part, we focus on the impact of macro-scale factors on the growth of the burning area by considering the atmospheric stability conditions…
Author(s): Vera N. Egorova, Andrea Trucchia, Gianni Pagnini
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Objectives: The increase in global wildland fire activity has accelerated the urgency to understand health risks associated with wildland fire suppression. The aim of this project was to identify occupational health research priorities for wildland…
Author(s): Chelsea A. Pelletier, Christopher Ross, Katherine Bailey, Trina Fyfe, Katie Cornish, Erica Koopmans
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We investigated the relative importance of daily fire weather, landscape position, climate, recent forest and fuels management, and fire history to explaining patterns of remotely-sensed burn severity – as measured by the Relativized Burn Ratio – in…
Author(s): C. Alina Cansler, Van R. Kane, Paul F. Hessburg, Jonathan T. Kane, Sean M.A. Jeronimo, James A. Lutz, Nicholas A. Povak, Derek J. Churchill, Andrew J. Larson
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