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Trees have similar growth responses to first-entry fires and reburns following long-term fire exclusion

Year: 2024

Managing fire ignitions for resource benefit decreases fuel loads and reduces the risk of high-severity fire in fire-suppressed dry conifer forests. However, the reintroduction of low-severity wildfire can injure trees, which may decrease their growth after fire. Post-fire growth responses could change from first-entry fires to reburns, as first-entry fires reduce fuel loads and the vulnerability among trees to fire effects, which may result in trees sustaining less damage during reburns. To determine whether trees had growth responses that varied from first-entry fires to reburns, we cored…

Fire Effects and Fire Ecology, Fuels and Fuel Treatments

dendroecology, reburn, fire severity, managed wildfire, fire effects

Publication Type: Journal Article

Untrammeling the wilderness: restoring natural conditions through the return of human-ignited fire

Year: 2024

Historical and contemporary policies and practices, including the suppression of lightning-ignited fires and the removal of intentional fires ignited by Indigenous peoples, have resulted in over a century of fire exclusion across many of the USA’s landscapes. Within many designated wilderness areas, this intentional exclusion of fire has clearly altered ecological processes and thus constitutes a fundamental and ubiquitous act of trammeling. Through a framework that recognizes four orders of trammeling, we demonstrate the substantial, long-term, and negative effects of fire…

Fire Effects and Fire Ecology, Fire History, Restoration and Hazardous Fuel Reduction

wilderness fire, fire exclusion, Indigenous fire stewardship, fire-adapted ecosystems

Publication Type: Journal Article