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Restoring the West Conference: Climate, Disturbance and Restoration in the Intermountain West
Video presentations from the conference held October 18-19, 2016 at Utah State University. As climate changes, forests are being impacted by severe drought, longer fire seasons, and impressive insect epidemics. New approaches to landscape restoration are needed to cope with these disturbances. The 2016 Restoring the West Conference offered presentations by experts in climate science, landscape restoration, and forest ecology on techniques for this uncertain future, and gave examples where these techniques are working.
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Quantifying the influence of previously burned areas on suppression effectiveness and avoided exposure: A case study of the Las Conchas Fire
2016 article by Matthew P. Thompson et al. in International Journal of Wildland Fire. 25(2): 167-181.
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Young Scientists Measure Wildfire Threat
Audio Postcard from KUNM's Anna Lande and YCC crew leaders at the Valle de Oro Wildlife Refuge. Aired July 8, 2016.
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Rio Grande Water Fund: Wildfire and Water Source Protection - Annual Report 2016
Second Annual Report of the Rio Grande Water Fund
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Wildfire Management (vs Suppression) Benefits Forests and Watersheds
An unprecedented 40-year experiment in a 40,000 acre valley of Yosemite National Park strongly supports the idea that managing fire, rather than suppressing it, makes wilderness areas more resilient to fire, with the added benefit of increased water availability and resistance to drought. After a three-year assessment of the Park's Illilouette Creek Basin, UC Berkeley researchers concluded that a strategy dating to 1973 of managing wildfires with minimal suppression and almost no prescribed burns has created a landscape more resistant to catastrophic fire, with more diverse vegetation, forest structure and increased water storage. "When fire is not suppressed, you get all these benefits: increased stream flow, increased downstream water availability, increased soil moisture, which improves habitat for the plants in the watershed. And it increases the drought resistance of the remaining trees and also increases the fire resilience because you have created these natural firebreaks," said Gabrielle Boisramé, graduate student at UC Berkeley's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and first author of the study. The Cohesive Wildland Fire Strategy supports management of fires where possible. Managing fires is part of the Cohesive Strategy vision: to safely and effectively suppress fires, use fire where allowable, manage our natural resources, and as a Nation, live with wildland fire. Read the full article and find the published study at: ttp://wildfireinthewest.blogspot.com/2016/10/wildfire-management-vs-suppression.html.
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Greater Santa Fe Fireshed Coalition Meeting - Draft Notes, August 2, 2016
Draft notes from the 08/02/16 GSFFC meweting
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The True Cost of Wildfire in the Western U.S.
Report published by the Western Forestry Leadership Coalition, April 2010. Dr. Lisa Dale, lead author.
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Playing with Fire: How Climate Change and Development Patterns Are Contributing to the Soaring costs of Western Wildfires
Report by Union of Concerned Scientists, July 2014
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The Total Cost of Wildfires: Implications for Taxpayers and Policymakers
Presentation by Molly Mowery and Robert Gray, NFPA Backyards and Beyond Wildland Fire Conference, November 2013
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US Department of Interior Wildland Fire Management Program Benefit-Cost Analysis: A Review of Relevant Literature
Prepared by the Office of Policy Analysis, June 2012
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