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2021 Interagency Standards for Fire and Fire Aviation Operations

New “Redbook” from the Interagency Standards for Fire and Fire Aviation Operations Group, National Interagency Fire Center, in Boise, ID. Full PDF
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Post-fire conditions in various fuel models in the Southern Rockies region

Full Infographic Here Forested landscapes in Colorado are highly diverse. The Rocky Mountains create incredible variation in topography, soils, and moisture gradients, and this variability strongly influences the enormous diversity of understory and forest vegetation that grows in different places. Even with all this diversity, Colorado’s forests can be divided into several major forest types…
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Community-based forestry on federal lands in the western United States: A synthesis and call for renewed research

Abstract: An approach to community-based forestry (CBF) on federal forestlands in the western United States consists of a number of informal civil society institutions for communities to better organize internally and interact with government. We review the body of research on this topic, which has an explicit focus on the three interlinked aspects of democratic…
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Cameron Peak Fire Forest Service Burned Area Emergency Response (BAER) Executive Summary

Burned Area Emergency Response (BAER) executive summary for the Cameron Peak Fire. Full Summary Here
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Classifying large wildfires in the United States by land cover

Full Publication Abstract: Fire is an ecological process that also has socio-economic effects. To learn more about fire occurrence, I examined relationships between land classes and about 12,000 spatially delineated large wildfires (defined here as uncontrolled fires _200 ha, although definitions vary) during 1999 to 2017 in the conterminous United States. Using random forests, extreme…
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FireCLIME VA: A New Fire and Climate Vulnerability Assessment Tool for the U.S. Southwest

New fire and climate vulnerability assessment tool for the SW US. FireCLIME VA allows users to compare mgmt. strategies under changing climate scenarios. RMRS: https://research.fs.usda.gov/treesearch/64912 FireCLIME VA: https://bit.ly/3mYMafI Thumbnail image credit Rachel Loehman, USGS.
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Response of Big Sagebrush Plant Communities to Climate Change, Grazing, and Cheatgrass Throughout the 21st Century

How will a changing climate effect big sagebrush communities? Watch this webinar from USGS to learn more about just that. Recording and more info here Additional info: Big Sagebrush Response to Wildfire and Invasive Grasses in the 21st Century
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Mental Health After a Wildfire

Traumatic events such as a wildfire can have devastating effects on a persons mental health. This resource from the Boulder County website has tools for the whole family regarding how to observe these often subtle but meaningful changes in yourself and others. https://www.bouldercounty.org/safety/fire/mental-health-after-a-fire/
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Prescribed Fire Training Exchange (TREX) adapts to COVID-19

TREX coaches and coordinators are adapting to local standards and expectations regarding COVID-safe practices to offer cooperative burns with training opportunities; these events are coordinating local resources and limiting integration of personnel from afar. If you are interested in taking part in a cooperative burn in your area, reach out to Jeremy Bailey (contact info…
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Bark beetle outbreak enhances biodiversity and foraging habitat of native bees in alpine landscapes of the southern Rocky Mountains

By Thomas Seth Davis, Paul R. Rhoades, Andrew J. Mann & Terry Griswold Landscape-scale bark beetle outbreaks alter forest structure with direct and indirect effects on plants and animals in forest ecosystems. Using alpine spruce forest and a native bee community as a study system, we tested how tree mortality from bark beetles impacts bee…
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