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Assessment of Community Wildfire Protection Plans (CWPP) in Arizona & Throughout the West

This white paper shares lessons learned and recommendations for Community Wildfire Protection Plan (CWPP) design and plan elements that can help facilitate and guide implementation, while acknowledging the importance of local context in effective community wildfire planning. Technical report: Colavito, M.M. 2019. Assessment of Community Wildfire Protection Plans (CWPP) in Arizona and Communities-at-Risk throughout the…
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The Pinaleño Ecological Restoration Project and Demonstration Unit: Effects of Restoration Treatment and Wildfire in a Mixed-Conifer Forest

This report briefly summarizes early restoration demonstration work on the Coronado National Forest (2008-2009), results from mechanical treatments initiated in 2016-2017, and the effects of the Frye Fire in 2017. Read the full report from the Ecological Restoration Institute here.
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How the Natural Range of Variability of Frequent-Fire Forests Informs Restoration Treatments

This one-page topics paper is written for the general public and describes how a forest’s natural range of variability can inform restoration treatments. Read the full report from the Ecological Restoration Institute here.
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Fire Weather Alert System

From the Rocky Mountain Research Station: The Fire Weather Alert System (FWAS) is designed to warn on-the-ground firefighters of dangerous weather conditions in their area. Learn more here.
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Next Generation Fire Severity Mapping

From the Rocky Mountain Research Station: The Next Generation Fire Severity Mapping is a tool designed to depict the probability of high-severity fire, if a fire were to occur, for several ecoregions in the contiguous western U.S. Statistical models were used to generate “wall-to-wall” maps for 13 of the 19 ecoregions. Read the full brief here.
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Quantifying long-term post-fire sediment delivery and erosion mitigation effectiveness

From the Rocky Mountain Research Station: Large wildfires can have profound and lasting impacts not only from direct consumption of vegetation but also longer term effects such as persistent soil erosion. The 2002 Hayman Fire burned in one of the watersheds supplying water to the Denver metropolitan area; thus there was concern regarding hillslope erosion…
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The Missoula Fire Lab Wildfire Emission Inventory

From the Rocky Mountain Research Station: To address the need of air regulators and land managers for improved wildfire pollutant emission estimates, we developed the Missoula Fire Lab Emission Inventory (MFLEI), a retrospective, daily wildfire emission inventory for the US. MFLEI was produced using multiple datasets of fire activity and burned area, a wildland fuels…
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Wildfires Know No Boundaries

From the Rocky Mountain Research Station: For the first time, U.S. Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station and Oregon State University scientists have assessed cross-boundary wildfire exposure in the western United States by mapping potential fire transmission among public and private lands, and identifying areas where ignitions are most likely to expose communities to wildfire.
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Soil Fungi Recover Slowly Following High-Severity Wildfires

From the Rocky Mountain Research Station: In recent decades, wildfires in ponderosa pine forests have increased in size and severity. These wildfires can remove large, contiguous patches of mature forests, alter dominant plant communities and increase woody debris, potentially altering fungal community composition. Additionally, post-fire conditions may shift dominant fungal functional groups from plant-symbiotic ectomycorrhizal…
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Wildland Fire Management under COVID-19

Read the full brief here. Summary: COVID-19 will have major implications for wildland fire management, because of severe social distancing and hygiene requirements. We collected procedures and guidance created round the world to help prepare wildland fire professionals globally for fire management during this pandemic. Citation: Moore, P., Hannah, B., deVries, J.,Poortvliet, M.,Steffens, R.,Stoof, C.R.…
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