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A Double Whammy: Climate Change and Stand-Replacing Wildfires

From Rocky Mountain Research Station:

“In the Intermountain region of the Western United States, most forested landscapes are fire prone and adapted to a semiarid climate. With the severity of wildfires increasing as a result of excessive fuels, land managers are concerned about forest converting to non-forest types such as shrubland or grassland. “And then when you throw climate change into the mix, the wildfire conversion risk goes even higher,” said Sean Parks, a research ecologist with the USDA Forest Service Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute (ALWRI), Rocky Mountain Research Station (RMRS).”

Read the rest here.

Posted by:
Gloria Edwards
Published on:
March 27, 2020

Categories: PublicationTags: all regions, Climate & Fire, climate change, climate change adaptation, disturbance, ecotype conversion, Forest Management, Forest Restoration, landscape restoration and resilience, USFS, wildfire, wildfire risk reduction

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