Publication Year: 2021Publication Series: Scientific Journal (JRNL)Authors:
Hogland, John S.
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Dunn, Christopher J.
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Johnston, James D.
Source: Forests. 12: 1084.
Data-driven decision making is the key to providing effective and efficient wildfire protection and sustainable use of natural resources. Due to the complexity of natural systems, management decision(s) require clear justification based on substantial amounts of information that are both accurate and precise at various spatial scales.
Publication Year: 2021Publication Series: General Technical Report (GTR)Authors:
Maxwell, Dillon M.
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Rhoades, Charles C.
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Bramwell, Lincoln
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Paschke, Mark W.
Source: Gen. Tech. Rep. RMRS-GTR-427. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 20 p. https://doi.org/10.2737/RMRS-GTR-427.
For centuries, humans occupied and altered California Park, a unique high-elevation rangeland in northwestern Colorado. The area’s rich biodiversity attracted Native American hunters and successive European-American cattlemen, sheepherders, homesteaders, and recreationists.
Publication Year: 2021Publication Series: General Technical Report (GTR)Authors:
Berkey, Julia K.
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Miller, Carol L.
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Larson, Andrew J.
Source: Gen. Tech. Rep. RMRS-GTR-428. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 88 p. https://doi.org/10.2737/RMRS-GTR-428.
Suppression of most wildland fire ignitions has defined fire management in the United States since 1935. These past suppression activities, along with climate change impacts and other factors, have resulted in longer fire seasons and increased frequency of large fires in many forest ecosystems across the western United States, thus resulting in a fire management crisis.
Publication Year: 2021Publication Series: Scientific Journal (JRNL)Authors:
Fillmore, Stephen D.
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McCaffrey, Sarah M.
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Smith, Alistair M. S.
Source: Fire. 4: 62.
There is increasing discussion in the academic and agency literature, as well as popular media, about the need to address the existing deficit of beneficial fire on landscapes. One approach allowable under United States federal wildland fire policy that could help address this condition is by deliberately managing wildfire with a strategy other than full suppression (hereafter referred to as 'managed wildfire').
Publication Year: 2021Publication Series: Scientific Journal (JRNL)Authors:
Garfin, Gregg
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Falk, Donald A.
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O'Connor, Christopher D.
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Jacobs, Katharine
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Sagarin, Raphael D.
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Haverland, Arin C.
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Haworth, Anna
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Baglee, Alastair
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Weiss, Jeremy
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Overpeck, Jonathan
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Zuñiga-Terán, Adriana A.
Source: Climate Services
The United States Department of Defense (DoD) recognizes growing climate risks across its responsibilities as land manager, operator of hundreds of installations, and in its core mission to protect national security. However, DoD climate risk reduction is complicated by frequent leadership turnover among base commanders, which encourages focus on near-term challenges, and changing US government priorities that downplay climate risk.
Publication Year: 2021Publication Series: Scientific Journal (JRNL)Authors:
Almeida, Rosiane F.
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Machado, Patrícia S.
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Damacena, Michelle B.
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Santos, Samuel A.
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Guimaraes, Lucio M. S.
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Klopfenstein, Ned B.
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Alfenas, Acelino C.
Source: Forest Pathology. 51: e12679.
Myrtle rust (MR) caused by Austropuccinia psidii is one of the most important diseases affecting eucalypt (Eucalyptus) plantations in Brazil. Over the years, selection and planting of MR-resistant clones has been the primary strategy for MR management. In May 2013, young trees of the GG100 hybrid (E. grandis × E. urophylla) clone - widely planted in Brazil and previously classified as resistant to MR - were infected by A.
Publication Year: 2021Publication Series: General Technical Report (GTR)Authors:
Graham, Russell T.
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Battaglia, Mike A.
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Jain, Terrie B.
Source: Gen. Tech. Rep. RMRS-GTR-422. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 61 p. https://doi.org/10.2737/RMRS-GTR-422
Since 2000, the Black Hills National Forest (BHNF) has experienced several disturbances that have reduced standing live sawtimber volume which will affect future harvest levels.
Publication Year: 2021Publication Series: Scientific Journal (JRNL)Authors:
Armatas, Christopher (Chris) A.
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Borrie, William T.
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Watson, Alan E.
Source: Society and Natural Resources. https://doi.org/10.1080/08941920.2021.1996666.
The application of scientifically rigorous public engagement approaches is lacking. In this context, we present a “social vulnerability protocol” which has now been applied in several broad-scale planning efforts. The protocol aims to understand the multitude of relationships that people have with public land through a prioritization of ecosystem services and a selection of relevant drivers of change.
Publication Year: 2021Publication Series: Scientific Journal (JRNL)Authors:
McKelvey, Kevin S.
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Block, William M.
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Jain, Terrie B.
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Luce, Charles H.
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Page-Dumroese, Deborah S.
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Richardson, Bryce A.
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Saab, Victoria A.
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Schoettle, Anna W.
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Sieg, Carolyn H.
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Williams, Daniel R.
Source: Frontiers in Forests and Global Change. 4: 644696.
Wildland research, management, and policy in western democracies have long relied on concepts of equilibrium: succession, sustained yield, stable age or species compositions, fire return intervals, and historical range of variability critically depend on equilibrium assumptions. Not surprisingly, these largely static concepts form the basis for societal expectations, dominant management paradigms, and environmental legislation.
Publication Year: 2021Publication Series: Scientific Journal (JRNL)Authors:
Menon, Mitra
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Bagley, Justin C.
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Page, Gerald F. M.
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Whipple, Amy V
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Schoettle, Anna W.
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Still, Christopher J.
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Wehenkel, Christian
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Waring, Kristen M.
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Flores-Renteria, Lluvia
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Cushman, Samuel A.
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Eckert, Andrew J.
Source: Communications Biology. 4: 160.
Extant conifer species may be susceptible to rapid environmental change owing to their long generation times, but could also be resilient due to high levels of standing genetic diversity. Hybridisation between closely related species can increase genetic diversity and generate novel allelic combinations capable of fuelling adaptive evolution.
