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Wildfires, insect outbreaks, and windstorms are increasingly common forest disturbances. Post-disturbance management often involves salvage logging, i.e., the felling and removal of the affected trees; however, this practice may represent an…
Author(s): Alexandro B. Leverkus, José María Rey Benayas, Jorge Castro, Dominique Boucher, Stephen Brewer, Brandon M. Collins, Daniel C. Donato, Shawn Fraver, Barbara E. Kishchuk, Eun-Jae Lee, David B. Lindenmayer, Emanuele Lingua, Ellen Macdonald, Raffaella Marzano, Charles C. Rhoades, Alejandro A. Royo, Simon Thorn, Joseph W. Wagenbrenner, Kaysandra Waldron, Thomas Wohlgemuth, Lena Gustafsson
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A newer generation of models that interactively couple the atmosphere with fire behavior have shown an increased potential to understand and predict complex, rapidly changing fire behavior. This is possible if they capture intricate, time-varying…
Author(s): Janice L. Coen
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Grid-independent rate of spread results from a physics-based simulation are presented. Previously, such a numerical benchmark has been elusive owing to computational restrictions. The grid-converged results are used to systematically construct…
Author(s): K. A. M. Moinuddin, W. Mell
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Changing climate and increasing area burned pose a challenge to forest carbon (C) storage, which is compounded by an elevated risk of high‐severity wildfire due to long‐term fire suppression in the western US. Restoration treatments that reduce tree…
Author(s): Shuang Liang, Matthew D. Hurteau, Anthony L. Westerling
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A 3-D mathematical model of fuel bed (FB) ignition initiated by glowing firebrands originating during wildland fires is proposed. In order to test and verify the model, a series of experiments was conducted to determine the FB ignition time by a…
Author(s): O. V. Matvienko, Denis P. Kasymov, Alexander I. Filkov, O. I. Daneyko, D. A. Gorbatov
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Potential improvement of lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta Dougl. ex Loud. var. latifolia Engelm.) solid-wood properties was examined by estimating age trends of inheritance, age–age genetic correlations, and the efficiency of early selection using 823…
Author(s): Haleh Hayatgheibi, Anders Fries, Johan Kroon, Harry X. Wu
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Interagency Hotshot Crews (IHCs) are a crucial firefighting suppression resource in the United States. These crews travel substantial distances each year and work long and arduous assignments that can cause accumulated fatigue. Current dispatching…
Author(s): Erin J. Belval, David E. Calkin, Yu Wei, Crystal S. Stonesifer, Matthew P. Thompson, Alex Taylor Masarie
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Two hybrid aspen (Populus tremula L.×P. tremuloides Michx.) trials in southern Sweden were used for studies of clonal composition in the second of two root sucker regenerations. Trial 1 was established in 1998 and originally included eight clones…
Author(s): Lars-Göran Stener, Dainis Rungis, Viktorija Belevich, Johan Malm
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As scientists and managers seek to understand fire behavior in conditions that extend beyond the limits of our current empirical models and prior experiences, they will need new tools that foster a more mechanistic understanding of the processes…
Author(s): Chad M. Hoffman, Carolyn Hull Sieg, Rodman Linn, William E. Mell, Russell A. Parsons, Justin P. Ziegler, J. Kevin Hiers
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Natural resource managers face the need to develop strategies to adapt to projected future climates. Few existing climate adaptation frameworks prescribe where to place management actions to be most effective under anticipated future climate…
Author(s): Kathryn Ireland, Andrew J. Hansen, Robert E. Keane, Kristin Legg, Rob Gump
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Stand structure and fuel mass were measured in 2011, 13 years after logging of a seasonally dry, ponderosa pine-dominated forest that had burned severely in the 1996 Summit Wildfire, Malheur National Forest, northeastern Oregon, U.S.A. Data are…
Author(s): James D. McIver, Roger D. Ottmar
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Pattern is a component of forest structure that includes the spatial arrangement of the types, species, numbers and sizes of individual structural elements (eg, trees, logs, snags). Spatial pattern is inherently linked to density (eg, number and…
Author(s): Derek J. Churchill, S Trent Seager, Andrew J. Larson, Eryn E. Schneider, Kerry Kemp, Craig Bienz
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Protected areas (PAs) play an important role in maintaining the biodiversity and ecological processes of the site. One of the greatest challenges for the PA management in several biomes in the world is wildfires. The objective of this work was to…
Author(s): João Flávio Costa dos Santos, Joyce Machado Nunes Romeiro, José Batuíra de Assis, Fillipe Tamiozzo Pereira Torres, José Marinaldo Gleriani
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Preferred fuel treatment strategies (FTSs) were determined for two public forests in Flathead County, Montana, for the period 2010–59 using a multiple-objective evaluation method that accounts for future residential development in the WUI and…
Author(s): Tony Prato, Travis B. Paveglio
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Dead woody material (DWM) plays numerous important roles in forest ecosystems; however, through the process of decomposition, it undergoes structural and chemical changes that progressively alter its function in these roles. Much remains unknown…
Author(s): Shawn Fraver, Mehdi Tajvidi, Anthony W. D'Amato, Daniel I. Lindner, Jodi A. Forrester, Amy M. Milo
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Wildfire management agencies increasingly seek to understand what the public values and expects to be protected from wildfire and its management. Recent conceptual development demonstrates the utility of considering values at three levels of…
Author(s): Kathryn J. Williams, Rebecca M. Ford, Andrea Rawluk
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Aerosols emitted by landscape fires affect many climatic processes. Here, we combined an aerosol–climate model and a coupled climate-carbon model to study the carbon cycle and climate effects caused by fire-emitted aerosols (FEA) forcing at the top…
Author(s): Jean-Sebastien Landry, Antti-Ilari Partanen, H. Damon Matthews
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This Research Brief summarizes findings of a Joint Fire Science Program project focused on understanding radio communications as part of risk communication and sensemaking in wildland fire operations. Through observation of live and simulated radio…
Author(s): Anne E. Black, Rebekah L. Fox, Elena Gabor, David Thomas, Jennifer Ziegler
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The Haines Index is intended to provide information on how midtropospheric conditions could lead to large or erratic wildfires. Only a few studies have evaluated its performance and those are primarily single fire studies. This study looks at 47…
Author(s): Brian E. Potter
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As wildland fires have had increasing negative impacts on a range of human values, in many parts of the United States (U.S.) and around the world, collaborative risk reduction efforts among agencies, homeowners, and fire departments are needed to…
Author(s): Rachel S. Madsen, Hylton J. G. Haynes, Sarah M. McCaffrey
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