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Perceptions of Prescribed Fire Among Ranchers near Northern US National Grasslands

open access: yesFire
Many barriers prevent ranchers from supporting prescribed fire on grazing leases or their own land. Barriers include negative perceptions of fire resources limitations, and fear of liability.
Kaylee Boland   +5 more
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The Dunn Ranch Academy: Developing Wildland Fire Literacy through Hands-on Experience with Prescribed Fire Science and Management

open access: yesFire, 2022
Wildland fire literacy is the capacity for wildland fire professionals to understand and communicate fundamentals of fuel and fire behavior within the socio-ecological elements of the fire regime.
Devan Allen McGranahan   +4 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Exploring Prescribed Fire Severity Effects on Ground Beetle (Coleoptera: Carabidae) Taxonomic and Functional Community Composition

open access: yesFire, 2023
Prescribed fire is a management tool that is frequently used to foster biodiversity. Simultaneously, insects that provide essential ecosystem services are globally declining.
Stephen C. Mason   +4 more
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Bees and Fire: How does Fire in Longleaf Pine Savannas Affect Bee Communities?

open access: yesEDIS, 2022
Bees are efficient pollinators known to be key components of healthy forests. Thus, bees are often used as indicators of community response to restoration and disturbances, including fire.
Nicole Mitchell   +2 more
doaj   +3 more sources

Is Wildfire Suppression in Giant Sequoia Groves a Problem, a Solution, or Neither? [PDF]

open access: yesEcology and Evolution
In 1910, the U.S. federal government began an official policy of suppressing wildfires. Decades later it became understood that the giant sequoia, the world's most massive tree, is serotinous and depends upon fire to effectively reproduce. For a century,
Chad T. Hanson
doaj   +2 more sources

Terrestrial Laser Scan Metrics Predict Surface Vegetation Biomass and Consumption in a Frequently Burned Southeastern U.S. Ecosystem

open access: yesFire, 2023
Fire-prone landscapes found throughout the world are increasingly managed with prescribed fire for a variety of objectives. These frequent low-intensity fires directly impact lower forest strata, and thus estimating surface fuels or understory vegetation
Eva Louise Loudermilk   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Prescribed Fire Size, Patchiness, and Pyrodiversity in the Southeastern United States

open access: yesEDIS, 2023
This publication aims to provide information on how variation in prescribed fire size and heterogeneity and their impact over time relate to the habitat needs of animals and plants that live in frequently burned savannas. Written by Jennifer M. Fill and
Jennifer M. Fill, Raelene M. Crandall
doaj   +3 more sources

Delayed fire mortality has long‐term ecological effects across the Southern Appalachian landscape

open access: yesEcosphere, 2022
Fire is a critical ecological process to the forests of the Southern Appalachians. Where fire was excluded from forest types that historically burned frequently, unanticipated changes can occur when fire is reintroduced.
Zachary J. Robbins   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Spatiotemporal Prescribed Fire Patterns in Washington State, USA

open access: yesFire, 2021
We investigate the spatiotemporal patterns of prescribed fire and wildfire within Washington State, USA using records from the state’s Department of Natural Resources (DNR).
Harry Podschwit   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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