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The Diffusion of Risk Management Assistance for Wildland Fire Management in the United States

“This paper evaluated the use of an emerging wildfire DST, the Risk Management Assistance (RMA) dashboard, during the 2021 and 2022 wildfire seasons. We used a mixed-method approach, consisting of an online survey and in-depth interviews with fire managers. “ Read HERE Beeton, T. A., Aldworth, T., Colavito, M. M., vonHedemann, N., Huayhuaca, C., & Caggiano,…
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A big fire with low fire severity: Lessons from the Black Fire

“When the Black Fire ignited in southwestern New Mexico in 2022, it had all the ingredients for disaster: record-high winds, extremely low humidity, and over 131,000 hectares (323,708 acres) of forest fuels to feed on. But something unexpected happened. Instead of becoming another catastrophic megafire, it burned mostly at low to moderate severity. The secret?…
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Active-fire landscapes demonstrate structural resistance to subsequent fire and drought

” In this study, we used overlapping airborne lidar datasets spanning active-fire landscapes in the Sierra Nevada, California, to evaluate how tree densities, clumping patterns, and height distributions changed during a decade of moderate-intensity wildfires and extreme drought.” Read HERE
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A systematic review and meta-analysis of post-fire seeding and herbicide treatment effectiveness for controlling exotic annual grasses in the sagebrush biome

“We asked if statistically based generalizations about the effects of pre-emergent herbicide and drill seeding of perennials, implemented following wildfires when threats of annual-grass invasion are greatest, could be made from the available literature.” Read HERE Bennion, Leland D.; Anthony, Christopher R.; Zimmer, Scott N.; Pilliod, David S.; Germino, Matthew J. 2025. A systematic review…
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Burning questions answered: New review examines 30 years of fuel treatment effects on wildfire severity

“More high-severity wildfire is occurring in the U.S. West and affecting people and forests in challenging ways. In places where mitigating high-severity wildfire is desirable, returning low-severity fire through fuel treatments is common practice. The last quantitative review of fuel treatment research happened 10 years ago. Much has been learned since then.” Read HERE Moore,…
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Two More Chains: What did We Learn in 2025

“This issue of Two More Chains reflects a year that tested us in the wildlandfire community in new, familiar, and sobering ways. We highlight lessonsfrom assault-related incidents over the past two decades, examinespecific events from 2025, and offer practical considerations you canapply immediately whether that’s threat planning, managing fatigue during travel,recognizing electrical hazar.” Read HERE
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Wildfire research and mental health: impacts, reflections, and a call to action

“We highlight the mental health risks of conducting wildfire research, in which both direct and secondary traumatic experiences can often be compounded by feelings of climate anxiety and ecological grief.” Read HERE
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What determines the effectiveness of Pinyon-Juniper clearing treatments? Evidence from the remote sensing archive and counter-factual scenarios

“Here, we evaluated PJ reduction treatment outcomes leveraging large, curated databases of land treatments, new remotely sensed fractional cover time-series products, gridded climate and soils data, and analytical approaches adopted from the econometric literature.” Read HERE
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Vulnerability of different Colorado plateau land types to drivers of change

“We assess management-relevant drivers of change—aridification, livestock grazing, invasive species, surface disturbance, and fire—across a patchwork of land management units and agencies on the Colorado Plateau, focusing on southeastern Utah, USA.” Read HERE
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Mapping ecological states in the upper Colorado River basin: implications for fire management

“We aimed to quantify ecological dynamics of two ES groups in the Upper Colorado River Basin from 1986 to 2022 through annual maps of ecological states and assess potential drivers of observed state change.” Read HERE
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Test Blog Grid

The Diffusion of Risk Management Assistance for Wildland Fire Management in the United States

A big fire with low fire severity: Lessons from the Black Fire

Active-fire landscapes demonstrate structural resistance to subsequent fire and drought

A systematic review and meta-analysis of post-fire seeding and herbicide treatment effectiveness for controlling exotic annual grasses in the sagebrush biome

Burning questions answered: New review examines 30 years of fuel treatment effects on wildfire severity

Two More Chains: What did We Learn in 2025

Wildfire research and mental health: impacts, reflections, and a call to action

What determines the effectiveness of Pinyon-Juniper clearing treatments? Evidence from the remote sensing archive and counter-factual scenarios

Vulnerability of different Colorado plateau land types to drivers of change

Mapping ecological states in the upper Colorado River basin: implications for fire management

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