management

Displaying 61 - 70 of 212

Water utility engagement in wildfire mitigation in watersheds in the western United States

Year of Publication

2023

Publication Type

Scaling up climate-adaptation in wildfire-prone watersheds requires innovative partnerships and funding. Water utilities are one stakeholder group that could play a role in these efforts. The overarching purpose of this study was to understand water utility engagement in wildfire mitigation efforts in the western United States.

A roadmap for pyrodiversity science

Year of Publication

2023

Publication Type

Journal Article

Background Contemporary and projected shifts in global fire regimes highlight the importance of understanding how fire affects ecosystem function and biodiversity across taxa and geographies. Pyrodiversity, or heterogeneity in fire history, is often an important driver of biodiversity, though it has been largely overlooked until relatively recently.

How Does Fire Suppression Alter the Wildfire Regime? A Systematic Review

Year of Publication

2023

Publication Type

Journal Article

Fire suppression has become a fundamental approach for shaping contemporary wildfire regimes. However, a growing body of research suggests that aggressive fire suppression can increase high-intensity wildfires, creating the wildfire paradox. Whether the strategy always triggers the paradox remains a topic of ongoing debate.

Community Forests advance local wildfire governance and proactive management in British Columbia, Canada

Year of Publication

2023

Publication Type

Journal Article

As wildfires are increasingly causing negative impacts to communities and their livelihoods, many communities are demanding more proactive and locally driven approaches to address wildfire risk. This marks a shift away from centralized governance models where decision-making is concentrated in government agencies that prioritize reactive wildfire suppression.

Evidence for multi-decadal fuel buildup in a large California wildfire from smoke radiocarbon measurements

Year of Publication

2023

Publication Type

Journal Article

In recent decades, there has been a significant increase in annual area burned in California's Sierra Nevada mountains. This rise in fire activity has prompted the need to understand how historical forest management practices affect fuel composition and emissions.

Indigenous Fire Futures

Year of Publication

2023

Publication Type

Journal Article

Dominant causal explanations of the wildfire threat in California include anthropogenic climate change, fire suppression, industrial logging, and the expansion of residential settlements, which are all products of settler colonial property regimes and structures of resource extraction.

Exploring and Testing Wildfire Risk Decision-Making in the Face of Deep Uncertainty

Year of Publication

2023

Publication Type

Journal Article

We integrated a mechanistic wildfire simulation system with an agent-based landscape change model to investigate the feedbacks among climate change, population growth, development, landowner decision-making, vegetative succession, and wildfire.

Metrics and Considerations for Evaluating How Forest Treatments Alter Wildfire Behavior and Effects

Year of Publication

2023

Publication Type

Journal Article

The influence of forest treatments on wildfire effects is challenging to interpret. This is, in part, because the impact forest treatments have on wildfire can be slight and variable across many factors. Effectiveness of a treatment also depends on the metric considered.

Future regional increases in simultaneous large Western USA wildfires

Year of Publication

2023

Publication Type

Journal Article

Background: Wildfire simultaneity affects the availability and distribution of resources for fire management: multiple small fires require more resources to fight than one large fire does. Aims: The aim of this study was to project the effects of climate change on simultaneous large wildfires in the Western USA, regionalised by administrative divisions used for wildfire management.

Wildland–Urban Interface: Definition and Physical Fire Risk Mitigation Measures, a Systematic Review

Year of Publication

2023

Publication Type

Journal Article

Due to the associated fire risk, the wildland–urban interface (WUI) has drawn the attention of researchers and managers from a range of backgrounds. From a land management point of view, it is important to identify the WUI to determine areas to prioritise for fire risk prevention.

Subscribe to management