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This research brief discusses considerations for prescribed burning and fuels treatments in whitebark pine, including best practices and layout options for large- and small-scale treatments.
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Background: Existing fire spread models focus exclusively on wildland or urban fire simulation.
Aims: This study aims at an offline coupling of two fire spread models to enable a continuous simulation of a wildfire incident transitioning from…
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Background: With wildfires increasing globally due to climate change, children may be more behaviourally exposed and more physiologically vulnerable to adverse health outcomes.
Objective: To complete a comprehensive investigation of epidemiological…
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The national Fire and Fire Surrogate (FFS) study was initiated more than two decades ago with the goal of evaluating the ecological impacts of mechanical treatments and prescribed fire in different ecosystems across the United States. Since then, 4…
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In many parts of the western United States, wildfires are becoming larger and more severe, threatening the persistence of forest ecosystems. Understanding the ways in which management activities such as prescribed fire and managed wildfire can…
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Changing global climate and wildfire regimes are threatening forest resilience (i.e., the ability to recover from disturbance). Yet distinguishing areas of “no” versus “slow” postfire forest recovery is challenging, and consequences of sparse tree…
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Rural communities are increasingly impacted by smoke produced by wildfires and forest management activties. Understanding local influences on smoke adaptation and mitigation is critical to social adaptation as fire risk continues to rise…
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Canadian fire managers rely on the value of the Duff Moisture Code (DMC) for estimating lightning ignition and sustained smouldering in ground fuels. A simple rule used widely operationally suggests that lightning does not ignite fires…
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Suppression effectiveness is often evaluated by measuring the extent to which it slows fire spread and reduces fireline intensity. Although studies have used infrared (IR) imaging methods to explore suppression effectiveness, most do not…
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Wildland fire is increasingly a consequence of the climate crisis, with growing impacts on communities and individuals. Wildland firefighters are critical to the successful management of wildland fire, yet very limited research has considered mental…
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Air quality modelling of smoke from wildfires requires knowledge of emission factors and how these vary.
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Experimental fires were used to test the variation of emission factors with fuel load to improve a smoke forecasting model.…
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Eruptive outbreaks of bark beetles have caused extensive and often severe tree mortality across tens of thousands to millions of hectares in temperate forests since the late 1990s. Many individual bark beetle-host tree (BB-host) associations have…
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In the aftermath of deadly blazes in Los Angeles, researchers also suggest ways to make homes more resilient.
The fires that have incinerated large swathes of southern California this month are among the deadliest and most destructive in the state’s…
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Acquiring behaviour parameters of wildfire propagation and developing firefighting strategies necessitate a precise and efficient simulation method; fireline coordinates and rate of spread (ROS) are two crucial parameters closely…
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In 2023, all regions of British Columbia (BC) experienced record-breaking fire weather and wildfires, with extreme behavior and social-ecological effects. In total, 2245 wildfires burned 2840 545 hectares. Contemporary wildfires are the culmination…
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The increased interest in why and how trees die from fire has led to several syntheses of the potential mechanisms of fire-induced tree mortality. However, these generally neglect to consider experimental methods used to simulate fire…
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In early 2000s, long-distance wind dispersal of mountain pine beetle (MPB; Dendroctonus ponderosae Hopkins) resulted in massive outbreaks in the northern Rocky Mountains, Alberta, Canada, outside of the beetle’s natural range. We analyzed data from…
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Smaller grazers consistently show greater preference for recently burned patches than larger species. Energy optimization theory posits that this pattern is driven by small- versus large-bodied herbivores seeking to maximize energy intake by…
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We consider in the present study an evaluation of the numerical accuracy of the dominant approach used to model the transport of firebrands in landscape-scale fire spread simulators. The approach is based on a prescribed statistical distribution for…
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The western United States (U.S.) has been experiencing more severe wildfires, in part due to climate change, but the underlying synoptic patterns and their modulation in driving fire weather is unclear. Here we investigated the relationship between…
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