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Wildfires heighten the risks of ecosystem degradation and increase carbon emissions, significantly impacting ecological stability and climate change. However, changes in extreme wildfire regimes and their consequential impact on carbon emissions and…
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Post-disaster support is critical for responders’ well-being who navigate the physical, mental, and emotional challenges of crisis intervention. The January 2025 Eaton Fire destroyed structures and disproportionately impacted Black and Latino…
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Wildfires are a source of air pollution, which impacts air quality in proximity to and at great distances from fires. Wildfire smoke exposure is seasonal and episodic, with exposure levels and durations that can vary considerably. Exposure to…
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Restoring a low-intensity, frequent-fire regime in fire-prone forests offers a promising natural climate solution. Management interventions that include prescribed fire and/or mechanical treatments have effectively reduced fire hazards in the…
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DAP and lidar were evaluated for modeling fire effects.
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DAP augmented with Sentinel-2 approached the performance of lidar.
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Lidar and DAP heights exhibit weaker correlations as lidar cover decreases.
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DAP struggled in high…
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Understanding where animals graze and why they choose to graze there can be critical to rangeland and ecosystem management with misunderstandings of grazing distribution and behavior often being detrimental to management goals. Over time, grazing…
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Global fire regime change is threatening terrestrial biodiversity. Understanding how these changes affect biota is essential to protect biodiversity now and into the future. A targeted examination of the mechanisms through which fire influences…
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An overview, including background motivation for the event and plans for future events, of the 2025 Fire and Fuels Monitoring Workshop hosted by NW Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), US Forest Service (USFS) PNW region, Northern Rockies Fire Science…
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Background: Drought, human disturbance, and invasive species are reshaping disturbance regimes and increasing the scale, severity, and frequency of wildfire in many ecosystems around the globe, including the sagebrush steppe of western North America…
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Forest managers are faced with escalating size, severity, and cost of wildfires. To mitigate this, U.S. federal land management agencies are increasing forest treatments such as mechanical thinning and prescribed fire. While there is a growing body…
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This paper numerically investigates the effects of ambient wind and sloped terrains on the behavior of moving fire whirls using Fire Dynamics Simulator (6.7.6). Five configurations were designed, including small- and large-scale L-shaped fire…
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Fire regimes are shifting around the world due to climate and land-use change, resulting in an increased frequency of large and severe wildfires. However, the impact of extreme wildfire events on animal species remains poorly understood.…
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Forest fires not only destroy vegetation and directly decrease forested areas, but they also significantly impair forest stand structures and habitat conditions, ultimately leading to imbalances within the entire forest ecosystem. Therefore,…
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Tree phenotypes vary because of genotype–climate interactions, and this variation influences host selection by tree-killing bark beetles. As climate-driven bark beetle outbreaks intensify, identifying phenotypic traits that best predict resistance…
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Volunteer firefighters often have lower cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) and less access to health monitoring and fitness programs than career firefighters, yet few studies explore how individual and departmental factors influence their CRF. This…
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Altered fire regimes and post-fire tree regeneration failures have the potential to drive forest cover losses throughout western North America, but management practices such as active reforestation may help address these challenges. Planting of…
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Forest productivity, essential for climate change mitigation, is increasingly threatened by environmental fluctuations, particularly droughts. Temporal stability in forest productivity —its ability to remain consistent over time— is influenced by…
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As wildfires intensify across the western United States, understanding long-term ecosystem recovery is increasingly critical. Post-fire soil amendments, such as woody mulch or biochar, are commonly used to stabilize soils and promote vegetation…
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Habitat features associated with species niches are commonly used as biodiversity proxies. Such proxies usually describe habitat diversity and have seldom been evaluated in a forestry context. As demands on forests to mitigate climate change and…
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Mechanical thinning is often prescribed in dry coniferous forests to reduce stand density, ladder fuels, and canopy fuels before using prescribed burning to manage surface fuels. Mechanical mastication is a tool for thinning forests where commercial…
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