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Barriers to Prescribed Fire in the US Great Plains, Part II: Critical Review of Presently Used and Potentially Expandable Solutions

Land, 2022
This is the second paper of a two-part series on the barriers to prescribed fire use in the Great Plains of the USA. While the first part presented a systematic review of published papers on the barriers to prescribed fire use, specifically regarding ...
Autumn S. Clark, Devan Allen McGranahan, Benjamin A. Geaumont, Carissa L. Wonkka, Jacqueline P. Ott, Urs P. Kreuter   +5 more
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Downwind Fire and Smoke Detection during a Controlled Burn—Analyzing the Feasibility and Robustness of Several Downwind Wildfire Sensing Modalities through Real World Applications

Fire, 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 ...
Patrick Chwalek, Hall Chen, Prabal Dutta, Joshua Dimon, Sukh Singh, Constance Chiang, Thomas Azwell   +6 more
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Impact of opioid law on prescriptions and satisfaction of pediatric burn and orthopedic patients: An epidemiologic study.

PLoS ONE, 2023
ObjectivesThe objective of this study was to determine the reduction in prescribed opioid pain dosage units to pediatric patients experiencing acute pain and to assess patient satisfaction with pain control 90-day post discharge following the 2017 Ohio ...
Megan Armstrong, Jonathan I Groner, Julie Samora, Vanessa A Olbrecht, Nguyen K Tram, Dana Noffsinger, Edward W Boyer, Henry Xiang   +7 more
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Silviculture can facilitate repeat prescribed burn programs with long-term strategies

California Agriculture, 2022
A significant expansion of prescribed fire activity will be necessary to mitigate growing wildfire hazard in California forests. Forest managers can facilitate this expansion by promoting forest structures that allow for more effective implementation of ...
Robert A. York, Jacob Levine, Daniel Foster, Scott Stephens, Brandon Collins   +4 more
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Soil Burn Severities Evaluation Using Micromorphology and Morphometry Traits After a Prescribed Burn in a Managed Forest

Spanish Journal of Soil Science, 2023
Prescribed burn is a tool that must imply low soil burn severity (SBS) levels; however, a wide range of soil impacts have been demonstrated because of the influence of very variable factors.
S. Moreno-Roso, S. Moreno-Roso, B. Chávez-Vergara, B. Chávez-Vergara, E. Solleiro-Rebolledo, S. Quintero-Gradilla, A. Merino, M. Ruiz-Rojas   +7 more
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Elk forage response to prescribed fire in Boyes meadow, Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park, California

California Fish and Wildlife Journal, 2020
Prescribed fire should increase plant and forage biomass for herbivores in meadows, but the response is likely to be influenced by environmental conditions.
Lee H. Williamson, Floyd W. Weckerly
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Factors Influencing County Commissioners’ Decisions about Burn Bans in the Southern Plains, USA

Land, 2021
Woody plant encroachment in North American rangelands has led to calls for greater use of prescribed fire to reduce fuel loads and restore grazing productivity and grassland biodiversity.
Thomas W. McDaniel, Carissa L. Wonkka, Morgan L. Treadwell, Urs P. Kreuter   +3 more
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High-severity wildfire leads to multi-decadal impacts on soil biogeochemistry in mixed-conifer forests. [PDF]

, 2020
During the past century, systematic wildfire suppression has decreased fire frequency and increased fire severity in the western United States of America.
Bell C. W., Dillon G. K., Fox J., Johnson D. W., Parker K. W., R Development Core Team, Restaino C. R., Sun H.   +7 more
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Effects of prescribed burning on understory Quercus species of Pinus yunnanensis forest

Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 2023
IntroductionPositioning studies on prescribed burning in Pinus yunnanensis forests have been conducted for several years, focusing on the effects of fire on the composition and structure, growth, regeneration, relative bark thickness, and bark density of
Ruicheng Hong, Jialin Li, Jin Wang, Xilong Zhu, Xiaona Li, Cheng Ma, Hengmao Cao, Leiguang Wang, Qiuhua Wang   +8 more
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Particulate Levels Underneath Landscape Fire Smoke Plumes in the Sydney Region of Australia

Fire, 2023
Smoke pollution from landscape fires is a major health problem, but it is difficult to predict the impact of any particular fire. For example, smoke plumes can be mapped using remote sensing, but we do not know how the smoke is distributed in the air ...
Owen F. Price, Simin Rahmani, Stephanie Samson   +2 more
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