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EDIS, 2023 This publication gives an introductory overview of the role of fire in forest systems, the benefits of using prescribed fire as a part of forest management, and the necessary safety and regulatory precautions that landowners and land managers need to ...
Michael G. Andreu +2 more
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Baptism of Fire: Modeling the Effects of Prescribed Fire on Lyme Disease. [PDF]
Can J Infect Dis Med Microbiol, 2022 Recently, tick-borne illnesses have been trending upward and are an increasing source of risk to people’s health in the United States. This is due to range expansion in tick habitats as a result of climate change. Thus, it is imperative to find a practical and cost-efficient way of managing tick populations.
Guo E, Agusto FB.
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Prescribed fire gains momentum [PDF]
California Agriculture, 2019 In recent decades, California has made sparing use of fire as a land management tool. But policy changes, partnerships and attitude shifts are creating conditions for expanded use of prescribed fire.
Lucien Crowder
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Encountering Prescribed Fire: Characterizing the Intersection of Prescribed Fire and Wildfire in the CONUS. [PDF]
ACS EST AirPrescribed fire is applied across the United States as a fuel treatment to manage the impact of wildfires and restore ecosystems. While the recent application of prescribed fire has largely been confined to the southeastern US, the increase in catastrophic wildfires has accelerated the growth of prescribed fire more broadly.
Beidler JL +3 more
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Fire, 2021 Prescribed burning by Indigenous people was once ubiquitous throughout California. Settler colonialism brought immense investments in fire suppression by the United States Forest Service and the California Department of Forestry and Fire Prevention (CAL ...
Tony Marks-Block, William Tripp
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California Prescribed Fire Monitoring Program: dataset 2019-2024 [PDF]
Scientific DataThe California Prescribed Fire Monitoring Program dataset (2019–2024) provides comprehensive ecological monitoring data from prescribed fire treatments across California’s diverse forest ecosystems.
Rut Domènech +11 more
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Optimizing prescribed fire allocation for managing fire risk in central Catalonia [PDF]
Science of the Total Environment, 2018 We used spatial optimization to allocate and prioritize prescribed fire treatments in the fire-prone Bages County, central Catalonia (northeastern Spain). The goal of this study was to identify suitable strategic locations on forest lands for fuel treatments in order to: 1) disrupt major fire movements, 2) reduce ember emissions, and 3) reduce the ...
Fermín J Alcasena +2 more
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Land, 2022 Prescribed fire is increasingly being considered as a viable management tool by public and private land managers. Fully expanding prescribed fire use in a land management context, where it is an ecologically effective but not commonly applied tool ...
Autumn S. Clark +5 more
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We’re Not Doing Enough Prescribed Fire in the Western United States to Mitigate Wildfire Risk
Fire, 2019 Prescribed fire is one of the most widely advocated management practices for reducing wildfire hazard and has a long and rich tradition rooted in indigenous and local ecological knowledge. The scientific literature has repeatedly reported that prescribed
Crystal A. Kolden
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How do invasive predators and their native prey respond to prescribed fire? [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionFire shapes animal communities by altering resource availability and species interactions, including between predators and prey. In Australia, there is particular concern that two highly damaging invasive predators, the feral cat (Felis catus) and ...
Darcy J. Watchorn +4 more
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