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Topic: Prescribed Burning

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Factors influencing wildfire management decisions after the 2009 US federal policy update

Journal Article
| 2024
Background
The decision making process undertaken during wildfire responses is complex and prone to uncertainty. In the US, decisions federal land managers make are influenced by numerous and often competing factors.

Aims
To assess and validate the presence of decision factors relevant to the…

Grasshopper abundance and offtake increase after prescribed fire in semi-arid grassland

Journal Article
| 2023
Background
Fire modulates herbivore dynamics in open ecosystems. While extensive work demonstrates the interaction between fire and vertebrate grazers, less research describes how grasshopper herbivory dynamics respond to fire.

Aim
We examined how fire increased grass crude protein content and…

Quantifying the smoke-related public health trade-offs of forest management

Journal Article
| 2023
Prescribed burning can mitigate extreme wildfire risk and reduce total smoke emissions. Yet prescribed burns’ emissions may also contribute to smoke exposures in nearby communities. Incorporating public health considerations into forest management planning efforts may help reduce prescribed burn-…

Using culturally significant birds to guide the timing of prescribed fires in the Klamath Siskiyou Bioregion

Journal Article
| 2023
Historically, wildfire and tribal burning practices played important roles in shaping ecosystems throughout the Klamath Siskiyou Bioregion of northern California and southern Oregon. Over the past several decades, there has been increased interest in the application of fire for forest management…

Low-intensity fires mitigate the risk of high-intensity wildfires in California’s forests

Journal Article
| 2023
The increasing frequency of severe wildfires demands a shift in landscape management to mitigate their consequences. The role of managed, low-intensity fire as a driver of beneficial fuel treatment in fire-adapted ecosystems has drawn interest in both scientific and policy venues. Using a synthetic…

Indigenous Fire Futures

Journal Article
| 2023
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. Settler…

Climate change is narrowing and shifting prescribed fire windows in western United States

Journal Article
| 2023
Escalating wildfire activity in the western United States has accelerated adverse societal impacts. Observed increases in wildfire severity and impacts to communities have diverse anthropogenic causes—including the legacy of fire suppression policies, increased development in high-risk zones, and…

Evaluating the potential role of federal air quality standards in constraining applications of prescribed fire in the western United States

Journal Article
| 2023

Prescribed fire is a useful tool for building resilient landscapes in fire-prone areas across the globe. In the western U.S., prescribed fire is employed by federal, state, and Tribal land managers and planned during particular meteorological and air quality conditions to manage …

2023 Washington Prescribed Fire Barriers Assessment Report and Strategic Action Plan

Report
| 2023

State, federal, tribal, and local government and non-profit partners in Washington have identified that prescribed fire – fire set by trained practitioners, under specific fuel, weather, and topographic conditions to simulate natural processes – is a necessary tool to improve the health of…

Downwind Fire and Smoke Detection during a Controlled Burn—Analyzing the Feasibility and Robustness of Several Downwind Wildfire Sensing Modalities through Real World Applications

Journal Article
| 2023

Wildfires have played an increasing role in wreaking havoc on communities, livelihoods, and ecosystems globally, often starting in remote regions and rapidly spreading into inhabited areas where they become difficult to suppress due to their size and unpredictability. In sparsely populated…