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Enhancing adaptive capacity for restoring fire-dependent ecosystems: the Fire Learning Network’s Prescribed Fire Training Exchanges

Year of Publication
2015
Publication Type

Prescribed fire is a critical tool for promoting restoration and increasing resilience in fire-adapted ecosystems, but there are barriers to its use, including a shortage of personnel with adequate ecological knowledge and operational expertise to implement prescribed fire across multijurisdictional landscapes.

Long-Term Growth of Sierra Nevada Mixed Conifer in Response to Mechanized Thinning, Slash Mastication, and Prescribed Fire

Year of Publication
2015
Publication Type

Thinning implemented with a cut-to-length system accompanied by on-site slash mastication and dispersal and followed by prescribed underburning were evaluated for their influences on individual tree and stand level growth in eastern Sierran mixed conifer. California white fir (Abies concolor var. lowiana [Gord.] Lemm.) dominated stand composition with Jeffrey pine (Pinus jeffreyi Grev.

Pile burning creates a fifty-year legacy of openings in regenerating lodgepole pine forests in Colorado

Year of Publication
2015
Publication Type

Pile burning is a common means of disposing the woody residues of logging and for post-harvest site preparation operations, in spite of the practice’s potential negative effects. To examine the long-term implications of this practice we established a 50-year sequence of pile burns within recovering clear cuts in lodgepole pine forests.

Recovery of small pile burn scars in conifer forests of the Colorado Front Range

Year of Publication
2015
Publication Type

The ecological consequences of slash pile burning are a concern for land managers charged with maintaining forest soil productivity and native plant diversity. Fuel reduction and forest health management projects have created nearly 150,000 slash piles scheduled for burning on US Forest Service land in northern Colorado. The vast majority of these are small piles (<5 m diameter).

Native and exotic plant species respond differently to wildfire and prescribed fire as revealed by meta-analysis

Year of Publication
2015
Publication Type

Questions: Wildfire is a natural disturbance that shapes vegetation characteristics worldwide, while prescribed fire is increasingly used to modify vegetation composition and structure. Due to invasion of many ecosystems by exotic species, a concern of land managers is whether wildfire and prescribed fire alter plant communities in favour of exotics.