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Fuels and Fuel Treatments

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Road fragment edges enhance wildfire incidence and intensity, while suppressing global burned area

Year of Publication
2024
Publication Type

Landscape fragmentation is statistically correlated with both increases and decreases in wildfire burned area (BA). These different directions-of-impact are not mechanistically understood. Here, road density, a land fragmentation proxy, is implemented in a CMIP6 coupled land-fire model, to represent fragmentation edge effects on fire-relevant environmental variables.

The cost of operational complexity: A causal assessment of pre-fire mitigation and wildfire suppression

Year of Publication
2024
Publication Type

Pre-fire mitigation efforts that include the installation and maintenance of fuel breaks are integral to wildfire suppression in Southern California. Fuel breaks alter fire behavior and assist in fire suppression at strategic locations on the landscape. However, the combined effectiveness of fuel breaks and wildfire suppression is not well studied.

Tribal stewardship for resilient forest socio-ecosystems

Year of Publication
2024
Publication Type

The Yurok Tribe, along with other tribal communities in northwest California, non-profit organizations, universities, and governmental agencies are working to restore forests and woodlands to be more resilient to wildfires, drought, pests and diseases.

Long-term sensitivity of ponderosa pine axial resin ducts to harvesting and prescribed burning

Year of Publication
2024
Publication Type

Forest restoration treatments primarily aimed at reducing fuel load and preventing high-severity wildfires can also influence resilience to other disturbances. Many pine forests in temperate regions are subject to tree-killing bark beetle outbreaks (e.g., Dendroctonus, Ips), whose frequency and intensity are expected to increase with future climatic changes.