Many natural resource agencies and organizations recognize the importance of fuel
treatments as tools for reducing fire hazards and restoring ecosystems. However, there …

Our motivation for assembling this book came from the escalating debate in both scientific
forums and the public media about the need to emulate natural disturbance in forest …

Climatic variability is a dominant factor affecting large wildfires in the western United States,
an observation supported by palaeoecological data on charcoal in lake sediments and …

Fire is well recognized as a key Earth system process, but its causes and influences vary
greatly across spatial and temporal scales. The controls of fire are often portrayed as a set of …

International Journal of Wildland Fire Page 1 P ublishing Address manuscripts and editorial
enquiries to: International Journal of Wildland Fire Editor in Chief Dr Gwynfor Richards …

The severity of fire varies in time and space depending not only on the biophysical
environment, but also on the location on the fire's perimeter (head vs. flank vs. rear). Spatial …

Abstract Fire regimes in North American forests are diverse and modern fire records are
often too short to capture important patterns, trends, feedbacks, and drivers of variability …

Abstract Knowledge on forest structure is vital for sustainable forest management decisions.
Currently, Airborne Laser Scanning (ALS) has been well established as an effective tool to …

Abstract “Fire regime” has become, in recent decades, a key concept in many scientific
domains. In spite of its wide spread use, the concept still lacks a clear and wide established …

Abstract Brown, James K.; Smith, Jane Kapler, eds. 2000. Wildland fire in ecosystems:
effects of fire on flora. Gen. Tech. Rep. RMRS-GTR-42-vol. 2. Ogden, UT: US Department of …