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Prescribed fire gains momentum [PDF]

open access: yesCalifornia 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
doaj   +6 more sources

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

California Prescribed Fire Monitoring Program: dataset 2019-2024. [PDF]

open access: yesSci Data
The California Prescribed Fire Monitoring Program dataset (2019–2024) provides comprehensive ecological monitoring data from prescribed fire treatments across California’s diverse forest ecosystems.
Domènech R   +11 more
europepmc   +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
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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
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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

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

Mapping fire history and quantifying burned area through 35 years of prescribed fire history at an Illinois tallgrass prairie restoration site using GIS

open access: yesEcological 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
doaj   +1 more source

Early prescribed fire in the Serra da Canastra National Park as a strategy to contain large fires within the integrated fire management plan

open access: yesBiodiversidade 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
doaj   +3 more sources

Factors Influencing County Commissioners’ Decisions about Burn Bans in the Southern Plains, USA

open access: yesLand, 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
doaj   +1 more source

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