Additional resources available on WeatherSHIELD - Colin McFayden presented about WeatherSHIELD at the Spring 2017 Alaska Fire Science Workshop. Access the recordings of his talk and PowerPoint.
The LANDFIRE program delivers dozens of spatial datasets representing historic fire regimes, current vegetation, current fuels and much more. Each of these datasets labels more than 9 billion 30m pixels…
Fire is a natural part of the ecosystems in the Great Lakes region. Several factors including harvesting, insect outbreaks, and fire suppression have had an impact on these ecosystems. Of…
Lowland brushlands in Minnesota are disturbance-dependent ecosystems that provide habitat for 80 wildlife species on the MN DNR Species in Greatest Conservation Need (SGCN) list, nearly half of which are…
Prescribed fire in pine stands, tree mortality and the response of insects and pathogens: Fire injury can kill older pine trees outright, creating breeding material for bark and wood boring…
Aspen is a ubiquitous component of many forest types across northeastern North America, including many fire-dependent ecosystems, and contributes a range of ecosystem services from habitat provisioning to fiber supplies.…
Donald Brown School of Natural Resources, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia / Northern Research Station, US Forest Service, Parsons, West [email protected]
Presentation gives an overview of several escaped prescribed fires in the Lake States dating back to the infamous 1980 Mack Lake Fire and the most recent escape on the Superior…