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Effectiveness of firebreaks: a review

“This review synthesizes current knowledge on firebreak design, application, and performance, focusing…

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Louisville Wildfire and Conflagration Risk Assessment

“The Louisville Fire Protection District teamed up with the Ember Alliance to…

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Improving understandings of public experiences with prescribed fire in the wildland–urban interface: a co-produced rapid survey approach

“This study sought to determine whether small-scale, time-sensitive surveying techniques are a…

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Invest in People and Community Resilience Will Follow

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The ecology of a smoke plume: bioaerosol patterns reveal abiotic and biotic drivers of diversity

“Wildland fire is known to play an important role in aerosolizing microbes sourced from vegetation and…

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Relationship of satellite-derived fire severity to archaeological fire severity and fire effects in the Jemez Mountains, New Mexico, USA

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Society for the Protection of Underground Networks: Underground Atlas

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Mature and Old-Growth Forests: Analysis of Threats on LandsManaged by the Forest Service andBureau of Land Management

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Landscape Position and Burn Intensity Influence Heat-Induced Soil Chromium Contamination

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User feedback on the Interagency Fuel Treatment Decision Support System

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Reducing fuels on steep slopes

New Tools for Modern Land Management Decisions – New tools for the Upper CO River Basin

Invasive grass influences on the fire-cycle and treatment effectiveness to control their abundance in the Intermountain West, USA

Loss of Ecosystem Resistance to Invasion after Wildfire Facilitated by a Pulse of Soil Nitrogen Availability: Experimental Evidence in the Burned Sagebrush Steppe: Loss of Resistance Explained by Soil N PulseT. M. Maxwell and others

Science You Can Use Tool: Raster Tools: Leveraging spatial analysis and AI towards a fire-resilient future, in minutes

Fuel treatments are supposed to protect forests from wildfire. How do we know if they’re working?

USU study: more days over 80 degrees means more fire

National Significant Wildland Potential Outlook: Predictive Services National Interagency Fire center

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This regional Fire Exchange is one of 15 regional fire science exchanges sponsored by the Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP).
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