This website hosts an abundance of curricula that focuses on the fire ecology of the Cross Timbers ecoregion, which is the largest …
Colorado Dept of Public Health & Environment Post-Fire Playbook
Developed for counties, tribes, municipalities, and water providers, the post-fire playbook was designed to fill in the gaps in …
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Reducing Wildfire Risk in the Wildland-Urban Interface: Policy, Trends, and Solutions
Increasing home development in wildfire-prone areas, coupled with climate change, are exacerbating wildfire risks to many …
Federal wildfire policy and the legacy of suppression
Federal wildfire policy that emphasizes suppression—a legacy of early-1900s forest management—has resulted in a paradox: …
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Fires & Soils in Frequent-Fire Landscapes of the Southwest
This working paper provides a summary of the current literature on the interaction of forest soils and fire in the southwestern …
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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 …
Big Trees, Bark Beetles, Goshawks & Timber
From the Rocky Mountain Research Station:Throughout the Rocky Mountains over the last century, large ponderosa pine trees provided …
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How Does Fire Kill Trees?
From the Rocky Mountain Research Station:Fires burn millions of acres annually and being able to predict what trees will die …