Fire, Fuel Treatments, and Restoration Ecology
Land managers have invested considerable funding to decrease fuel loads and restore resilient ecosystems in forests and rangelands, using techniques such as grazing, mowing, herbicides, and thinning. Yet, little information is available about how such restoration activities have influenced wildlife species and habitats. We are conducting empirical studies and developing novel approaches to better quantify and predict the ecological effects and effectiveness of fuel manipulations. We combine field sampling, experimental manipulations, remote sensing, and modeling at relevant scales from plots to landscapes. The assessments will help resource managers and scientists to predict fire risk, assess effects of management activities on fuel loads and native species, and assess short- and long-range fire effects and fuel treatment effectiveness.
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Below are data or web applications associated with this project.
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Refining the cheatgrass–fire cycle in the Great Basin: Precipitation timing and fine fuel composition predict wildfire trends
Long-term trends in restoration and associated land treatments in the southwestern United States
Weather-centric rangeland revegetation planning
Seventy-five years of vegetation treatments on public rangelands in the Great Basin of North America
Challenges of establishing big sgebrush (Artemisia tridentata) in rangeland restoration: effects of herbicide, mowing, whole-community seeding, and sagebrush seed sources
Quantifying and predicting fuels and the effects of reduction treatments along successional and invasion gradients in sagebrush habitats
Long-term effects of seeding after wildfire on vegetation in Great Basin shrubland ecosystems
Land Treatment Digital Library
Data entry module and manuals for the Land Treatment Digital Library
Index for characterizing post-fire soil environments in temperate coniferous forests
Pattern and process of prescribed fires influence effectiveness at reducing wildfire severity in dry coniferous forests
Amphibian responses to wildfire in the western united states: Emerging patterns from short-term studies
Land managers have invested considerable funding to decrease fuel loads and restore resilient ecosystems in forests and rangelands, using techniques such as grazing, mowing, herbicides, and thinning. Yet, little information is available about how such restoration activities have influenced wildlife species and habitats. We are conducting empirical studies and developing novel approaches to better quantify and predict the ecological effects and effectiveness of fuel manipulations. We combine field sampling, experimental manipulations, remote sensing, and modeling at relevant scales from plots to landscapes. The assessments will help resource managers and scientists to predict fire risk, assess effects of management activities on fuel loads and native species, and assess short- and long-range fire effects and fuel treatment effectiveness.
Below are other science projects associated with this project.
Below are data or web applications associated with this project.
Below are publications associated with this project.