JFSP Fire Science Exchange Network
The authors conducted prescribed burns in two masticated areas in northern California to assess fire effects in treated stands, compare fire behavior and effects with outputs from commonly used models, and evaluate the ability of mastication to increase stand resilience under a range of hypothetical wildfire scenarios.
Read MoreIn this paper, Agee and Skinner reviewed related literature, simulated fire behavior in different treatment types, and considered five real-‐world examples of fuels treatments and wildfire. Using these methods, they distilled a set of basic principles underlying effective treatments that reduce fuels and limit wildfire severity and extent.
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This study assessed the effects of both prescribed burning and stand structure management through thinning on bark beetle activity and associated levels of tree mortality.
Read MoreThis 2011 review synthesizes the growing body of scientific literature on the carbon balance of fuel treatments (i.e. the ability of treatments to achieve net carbon offsets.) The purpose of this synthesis is to highlight research relevant to forest managers and policymakers interested in the potential for forest management to contribute to climate change solutions.
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This brief summarizes fire ecology and management issues in California mixed-conifer forests for an audience without a background in fire, including the general public and media.
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This paper tests hypotheses pertaining to the impact of past fire suppression on southernCalifornia shrubland fire regimes.
Read MoreThis project verified the common assumption that annual growth rings can be used to determine age in California’s woody chaparral species.
Read MoreWith dangerous chaparral fires on the rise in the 1970’s, Clive Countryman asks and answers, “[Must] such [conflagrations] be accepted as inevitable in southern California? I think not!” And he outlines a set of fuel modification solutions...
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Alien plants and fire have recently been recognized as significant land management problems in the Mojave and Colorado deserts, especially as they relate to management of the federally threatened desert tortoise.
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This study looked at alien plant invasion in chaparral and sage scrub ecosystems over a period of five years after fire across a six-county area in southern California.
Read MoreExtreme fire intervals are one obvious concern for managers of fire dependent species such as the serotinous knobcone pine (Pinus attenuata).
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This 1987 paper by Richard Minnich summarizes newspaper accounts for selected fires between 1868 and 1900 in the San Gabriel Mountains of southern California, and describes in detail the behavior of three summer fires in 1896, 1898 and 1900 on Mt. Wilso.
Read MoreIn this study, prototype summaries are constructed for varying time intervals using California wildfire data from 1990 to 2006, as well as summaries of spatial patterns of fires within each wildfire season.
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A model has been developed to predict wildfire risk in northeastern Mojave Desert. The model incorporates remote sensing data as well as field sampling data to generate the predicted fire risk.
Read MoreThis report is one of the first and most dramatic accounts of the southern California “fire-‐flood” cycle that documented the magnitude of postfire debris flows in denuded watersheds.
Read MoreThis book analyses the current state of the art of participatory research in community-based natural resource management.
Read MoreThis guide provides advice to homeowners on fire-safe building materials and home design.
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Collaborations between management agencies and tribes and other Native American groups can incorporate traditional ecological knowledge to facilitate placed-based understanding of how fire and various management practices affect such tribal cultural resources and values.
Read MoreThis technical guide focuses on how to prevent invasive species spread through fire and fuels treatments.
Read MoreThis discussion paper addresses issues around Native American fire use and federal fire policies.
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The California Fire Science Consortium is divided into 4 geographic regions and 1 wildland-urban interface (WUI) team. Statewide coordination of this program is based at UC Berkeley.
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This regional Fire Science Exchange is one of 15 regional fire science exchanges sponsored by Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP).
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