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The Efficacy of Red Flag Warnings in Mitigating Human-Caused Wildfires across the Western United States

Year of Publication
2024
Publication Type

Red flag warnings (RFWs) are issued by the U.S. National Weather Service to alert fire and emergency response agencies of weather conditions that are conducive to extreme wildfire growth. Distinct from most weather warnings that aim to reduce exposure to anticipated hazards, RFWs may also mitigate hazards by reducing the occurrence of new ignitions.

Climate change mitigation-adaptation relationships in forest management: perspectives from the fire-prone American West

Year of Publication
2024
Publication Type

Minimizing negative impacts of climate change on human and natural systems requires mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions and adaptation to new climate conditions. Forestry provides grounds to study the relationship between these two concepts: carbon flux and storage are ecosystem services of forests, while forests are growing increasingly vulnerable to climate-driven disturbances.

Estimation of Wildfire Size and Risk Changes Due to Fuels Treatments

Year of Publication
2012
Publication Type

Human land use practices, altered climates, and shifting forest and fire management policies have increased the frequency of large wildfires several-fold. Mitigation of potential fire behaviour and fire severity have increasingly been attempted through pre-fire alteration of wildland fuels using mechanical treatments and prescribed fires.