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Wildfire activity has increased dramatically in the western United States over the last three decades, leading to a significant impact on air quality and human health. This study highlights the substantial role of anthropogenic climate…
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Aerial retardant drops are widely used in wildfire suppression, yet their effectiveness in slowing fire spread remains difficult to quantify at scale. This study evaluates their impact on wildfire rate of spread (ROS) using a framework that combines…
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Platoon leaders in the fire services are responsible not only for firefighting and rescue operations but also for a wide range of administrative and managerial duties (for example, personnel supervision). However, existing competency models and…
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Landscape fires are a major source of greenhouse gases and other atmospheric constituents. Most global inventories of landscape fire emissions have converged at around 2 petagram of carbon (Pg C) y−1 since satellite information on burned areas…
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The “Long-term ecological effects of forest fuel and restoration treatments” Special Feature focuses on the status of the national Fire and Fire Surrogates study (FFS) after twenty years of research. The FFS study was initially proposed in response…
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United States wilderness areas face increasing challenges from altered fire regimes and climate change, and land managers face ever more complex decisions about fire use. While federal policies permit various fire management…
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Wild and intentionally ignited fires are not new to North American landscapes or to the Indigenous cultures whose ancestral places encompass them. For millennia, Indigenous fire stewardship has been regionally and locally distributed across North…
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Rangeland fires can quickly change the structure of wildlife habitat and cause changes that persist for years to decades. To facilitate habitat recovery, postfire restoration actions often involve sowing seeds of native and nonnative perennial…
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Wildfires heighten the risks of ecosystem degradation and increase carbon emissions, significantly impacting ecological stability and climate change. However, changes in extreme wildfire regimes and their consequential impact on carbon emissions and…
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Post-disaster support is critical for responders’ well-being who navigate the physical, mental, and emotional challenges of crisis intervention. The January 2025 Eaton Fire destroyed structures and disproportionately impacted Black and Latino…
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Wildfires are a source of air pollution, which impacts air quality in proximity to and at great distances from fires. Wildfire smoke exposure is seasonal and episodic, with exposure levels and durations that can vary considerably. Exposure to…
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Restoring a low-intensity, frequent-fire regime in fire-prone forests offers a promising natural climate solution. Management interventions that include prescribed fire and/or mechanical treatments have effectively reduced fire hazards in the…
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DAP and lidar were evaluated for modeling fire effects.
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DAP augmented with Sentinel-2 approached the performance of lidar.
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Lidar and DAP heights exhibit weaker correlations as lidar cover decreases.
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DAP struggled in high…
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Understanding where animals graze and why they choose to graze there can be critical to rangeland and ecosystem management with misunderstandings of grazing distribution and behavior often being detrimental to management goals. Over time, grazing…
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Global fire regime change is threatening terrestrial biodiversity. Understanding how these changes affect biota is essential to protect biodiversity now and into the future. A targeted examination of the mechanisms through which fire influences…
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An overview, including background motivation for the event and plans for future events, of the 2025 Fire and Fuels Monitoring Workshop hosted by NW Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), US Forest Service (USFS) PNW region, Northern Rockies Fire Science…
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This paper numerically investigates the effects of ambient wind and sloped terrains on the behavior of moving fire whirls using Fire Dynamics Simulator (6.7.6). Five configurations were designed, including small- and large-scale L-shaped fire…
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Fire regimes are shifting around the world due to climate and land-use change, resulting in an increased frequency of large and severe wildfires. However, the impact of extreme wildfire events on animal species remains poorly understood.…
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Forest fires not only destroy vegetation and directly decrease forested areas, but they also significantly impair forest stand structures and habitat conditions, ultimately leading to imbalances within the entire forest ecosystem. Therefore,…
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Tree phenotypes vary because of genotype–climate interactions, and this variation influences host selection by tree-killing bark beetles. As climate-driven bark beetle outbreaks intensify, identifying phenotypic traits that best predict resistance…
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