The Joint Fire Science Program has posted some new “Fire Science Briefs” on their web site.
Some of the new ones include:
- How Does a Sierran Forest Grow? Fire, Thinning, and Regenerating Trees
- Searching, Witnessing, Testing: Plants and Fire in Southern California
- All Fired Up: Whitebark Pines are Crucial in the Cascades and Beyond
- In a Ponderosa Pine Forest, Prescribed Fires Reduce the Likelihood of Scorched Earth
- Earth and Fire: Forest Rely on Healthy Soils for a Well-rounded Diet
- Something In the Air: Climate, Fire, and Ponderosa Pine in Southwestern Colorado
- When Chaparral and Coastal Sage Scrub Burn: Consequences for Mammals, Management and More
Next week they will add several research publications under their “Science You Can Use” section, including:
- Southern Beetles: Effects of Prescribed Fire and Fire Surrogates on Saproxylic Coleoptera in the Southern Appalachians of North Carolina
- Black Hills: Can Prescribed Fire Be Used to Maintain Fuel Treatment Effectiveness Over Time in Black Hills Ponderosa Pine Forests?
- Alaska: Fire History and Fire Management Implications in the Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge, Interior Alaska
- Postfire Valuations for BAER: Nonmarket Resource Valuation in the Postfire Environment
- Southwest: Fuel Loadings in Forests, Woodlands, and Savannas of the Madrean Province
- Cheatgrass: Fire, Native Species, and Soil Resource Interactions Influence the Spatio-temporal Invasion Pattern of Bromus tectorum
- Wildland Fire Suppression Costs: Factors Influencing Large Wildland Fire Suppression Expenditures
- Burn Probability: Evaluating Spatially-Explicit Burn Probabilities for Strategic Fire Management Planning
- Interior West Fuel Treatments: Objectives and Considerations for Wildland Fuel Treatment in Forested Ecosystems of the Interior Western United States
- Shrubland Proceedings: Shrublands Under Fire: Disturbance and Recovery in a Changing World
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