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Using focus groups for knowledge sharing: Tracking emerging pandemic impacts on USFS wildland fire operations

Year of Publication
2024
Publication Type

In early 2020 the US Forest Service (USFS) recognized the need to gather real-time information from its wildland fire management personnel about their challenges and adaptations during the unfolding COVID-19 pandemic. The USFS conducted 194 virtual focus groups to address these concerns, over 32 weeks from March 2020 to October 2020.

Remote sensing applications for prescribed burn research

Year of Publication
2024
Publication Type

Prescribed burning is a key management strategy within fire-adapted systems, and improved monitoring approaches are needed to evaluate its effectiveness in achieving social-ecological outcomes. Remote sensing provides opportunities to analyse the impacts of prescribed burning, yet a comprehensive understanding of the applications of remote sensing for prescribed burn research is lacking.

Matching the scales of planning and environmental risk: an evaluation of Community Wildfire Protection Plans in the western US

Year of Publication
2024
Publication Type

Theory predicts that effective environmental governance requires that the scales of management account for the scales of environmental processes. A good example is community wildfire protection planning. Plan boundaries that are too narrowly defined may miss sources of wildfire risk originating at larger geographic scales whereas boundaries that are too broadly defined dilute resources.

Forest fire management, funding dynamics, and research in the burning frontier: A comprehensive review

Year of Publication
2024
Publication Type

We indexed 8,970 scientific publications on forest fires in order to bridge the gap between research and policy discussions on forest fires. Journal articles and conference papers dominated the literature, with an emphasis on environmental science, agricultural and biological sciences, earth and planetary sciences, engineering, and computer science.