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Prescribed Burning

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Tamm Review: Are fuel treatments effective at achieving ecological and social objectives? A systematic review

Year of Publication
2016
Publication Type

The prevailing paradigm in the western U.S. is that the increase in stand-replacing wildfires in historically frequent-fire dry forests is due to unnatural fuel loads that have resulted from management activities including fire suppression, logging, and grazing, combined with more severe drought conditions and increasing temperatures.

Wildfire, climate, and perceptions in Northeast Oregon

Year of Publication
2016
Publication Type

Wildfire poses a rising threat in the western USA, fueled by synergies between historical fire suppression, changing land use, insects and disease, and shifts toward a drier, warmer climate. The rugged landscapes of northeast Oregon, with their historically forest- and resource-based economies, have been one of the areas affected.

Evaluating Prescribed Fire Effectiveness Using Permanent Monitoring Plot Data: A Case Study

Year of Publication
2016
Publication Type

Since Euro-American settlement, ponderosa pine forests throughout the western United States have shifted from high fire frequency and open canopy savanna forests to infrequent fire and dense, closed canopy forests. Managers at Zion National Park, USA, reintroduced fire to counteract these changes and decrease the potential for high-severity fires.

Using Prescribed Fire as a Management Strategy in the Turnbull NWR

Year of Publication
2015
Publication Type

Management strategies developed for Turnbull NWR call for the integration of a variety of techniques to restore natural stand conditions, reduce hazard fuels and improve wildlife habitat. These strategies include various types of thinning followed by the application of prescribed fire.

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.