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Flames consume woody fuels in a managed wildfire, New Mexico
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Wildland Fire Science

Wildland Fire Science

USGS Fire Science is fundamental to understanding the causes, consequences, and benefits of wildfire and helps prevent and manage larger, catastrophic events. USGS scientists possess diverse technical capabilities that are used to address a variety of problems posed by wildland fires. Outcomes of USGS science can be used by fire and land managers to respond to fire-related issues when they arise.

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Wildland Fire Science

Wildland Fire Science

USGS Fire Science is fundamental to understanding the causes, consequences, and benefits of wildfire and helps prevent and manage larger, catastrophic events. USGS scientists possess diverse technical capabilities that are used to address a variety of problems posed by wildland fires. Outcomes of USGS science can be used by fire and land managers to respond to fire-related issues when they arise.

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Introduction to Claim Evidence Reasoning - Example and Student Instructions

Introduction to Claim Evidence Reasoning - Example and Student Instructions

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Fire and aquatic ecosystems of the western USA: Current knowledge and key questions

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Grassification and fast-evolving fire connectivity and risk in the Sonoran Desert, United States

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Simulating the effects of frequent fire on southern california coastal shrublands

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Fire history, effects and management in southern Nevada

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Putting people first: Using social science to reduce risk

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USGS science for a changing world

Role of Fire and Fuels in Ecological Restoration

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Assessing Seasonal Wildfire Forecasting Methods in Alaska

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Animation of Landsat Level-3 science product - Burned Area

Level-3 Burned Area Product Saves Preprocessing Time, Answers Fire Questions

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Predicting Recovery of Sagebrush Ecosystems Across the Sage-grouse Range from Remotely Sensed Vegetation Data

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Evaluating and optimizing the use of logistic regression for tree mortality models in the First Order Fire Effects Model (FOFEM)

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Human influence on California fire regimes

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Analysis adapted from text mining quantitively reveals abrupt and gradual plant-community transitions after fire in sagebrush steppe

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Extracting exotic annual grass phenology and climate relations in western U.S. rangeland ecoregions

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Managing Fire in the Northern Chihuahuan Desert: A Review and Analysis of the Literature

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Drilling firn cores on the Juneau Icefield, Alaska

Terrestrial Records of Holocene Climate Change: Fire, climate and humans

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Britt W Smith

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Sagebrush on fire in a controlled burn

Fuel Break Science in the Great Basin

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LANDFIRE Map Viewer

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Photo of a plane dropping flame retardant on a wildfire

Balancing Fire Hazards and Resource Protection

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Numerical simulations examining the possible role of anthropogenic and volcanic emissions during the 1997 Indonesian fires

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A firefighter in safety gear and holding a drop torch walks away from a line of burning vegetation

Firefighter with drip torch and burning vegetation

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USGS June Public Lecture Flyer

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Predicting watershed post-fire sediment yield with the InVEST sediment retention model: Accuracy and uncertainties

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Ponderosa pine snag densities following multiple fires in the Gila Wilderness, New Mexico

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Fire effects on the Point Reyes Mountain Beaver at Point Reyes National Seashore, California

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Climate change and wildfire risk in an expanding wildland–urban interface: a case study from the Colorado Front Range Corridor

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USGS scientist doing weather station repairs in Glacier National Park.

USGS scientist doing weather station repairs in Glacier National Park.

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Color illustration of fires near Elgin Air Force Base

Landsat Enables Mapping of Fire Histories Across Florida

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Image: A Wall of Fire in Southern California

Characterizing the Influence of Fire on Hydrology in Southern California

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