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Consequences of an endless summer: Untangling the link between summer precipitation and western wildfires

From the Rocky Mountain Research Station:

U.S. Forest Service scientists suspected another weather factor was being overlooked as a contributor to recent trends in wildfire: precipitation, specifically summer precipitation. Zachary Holden, an ecologist with the USFS Northern Region, Charles Luce, a research hydrologist, and Matt Jolly, a research ecologist, both with the Rocky Mountain Research Station anecdotally noticed low summer precipitation was associated with the 1988 Yellowstone fire and the major wildfire season of 2017 in the Pacific Northwest.

Read the brief here.

Read the original research here.

Posted by:
Gloria Edwards
Published on:
April 8, 2020

Categories: Publication, Research Brief/SynthesisTags: Climate & Fire, climate change, climate change vulnerability, coupled disturbance, disturbance, disturbance interactions, drought, fire management, fire-adapted communities and fire response, fuels availability, landscape restoration and resilience, Rocky Mountain Research Station, USFS, wildfire, wildfire behavior, wildfire hazard

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