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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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Short-Term Belowground Responses to Thinning and Burning Treatments in Southwestern Ponderosa Pine Forests of the USA [PDF]
, 2016 Microbial-mediated decomposition and nutrient mineralization are major drivers of forest productivity. As landscape-scale fuel reduction treatments are being implemented throughout the fire-prone western United States of America, it is important to ...
Hart, Stephen C, Overby, Steven T
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Ecological Solutions and Evidence, 2022 Fire was important to pre‐colonization prairies. In today's remnant and reconstructed prairies, managers frequently employ prescribed fire, a historical management practice that limits woody encroachment, suppresses non‐native species and promotes ...
Erin G. Rowland‐Schaefer +3 more
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Biodiversidade Brasileira, 2020 The Serra da Canastra National Park has 200,000 hectares, with extensive continuous native wilderness areas, and historically is hit by large fires that mainly damage forest formations and wildlife.
Fernando Augusto Tambelini Tizianel +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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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 +3 more
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Invigorating Prescribed Fire Science Through Improved Reporting Practices
Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, 2021 Interest in prescribed fire science has grown over the past few decades due to the increasing application of prescribed fire by managers to mitigate wildfire hazards, restore biodiversity, and improve ecosystem resilience. Numerous ecological disciplines
Sophie R. Bonner +11 more
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Pyric‐carnivory: Raptor use of prescribed fires [PDF]
Ecology and Evolution, 2017 AbstractFire is a process that shaped and maintained most terrestrial ecosystems worldwide. Changes in land use and patterns of human settlement have altered fire regimes and led to fire suppression resulting in numerous undesirable consequences spanning individual species and entire ecosystems.
Torre J. Hovick +4 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 ...
Alcasena FJ +4 more
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Fire, 2021 The benefits of prescribed fires are recognized throughout the United States, but the ability to assist with prescribed fire application on private land by government agencies has many possible constraints and challenges.
Ryan Wilbur +3 more
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