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Unpacking the Taxonomy of Wildland Fire Collaboratives in the United States West: Impact of Response Diversity on Social-Ecological Resilience
Year: 2025
We offer the first study unpacking the taxonomy of collaboratives that undertake wildland fire management and how that taxonomy relates to resilience. We developed a comprehensive inventory totaling 133 collaboratives across twelve states in the western United States. We extracted each collaborative’s vision, mission, program goals, actions, and stakeholder composition. Based on this data we summarize temporal and spatial trends in collaborative formation and discuss formation drivers. Furthermore, we developed a cluster map of collaboratives based on patterns of co-occurrence of…
collaborative governance, social ecological systems, Social and ecological resilience, adaptive management
Publication Type: Journal Article
Containment lines, PODs and suppression success: a case study of the 2021 Schneider Springs Fire
Year: 2025
BackgroundWildfire suppression is shaped by a complex interplay of environmental conditions, resource allocation and management strategies.AimsExamining the containment of the 2021 Schneider Springs Fire in the Eastern Cascades of Washington State, USA, we emphasise critical roles of variable selection, representative sampling and suppression-specific factors.MethodsUsing descriptive, predictive and causal models, we assessed the influence of weather conditions, terrain features, personnel availability, tree canopy cover, fire containment…
Publication Type: Journal Article
Fire refugia in forest ecosystems of the Pacific Northwest, USA: Science and applications for conservation, adaptation, and stewardship
Year: 2025
Concepts and models of fire refugia are increasingly important components of forest management and adaptation discussions in the context of wildland fire, forest and habitat conservation, and global change. Recent stand-replacing fires in mature and old-growth forests of the Pacific Northwest (PNW) region of the western United States have increased land manager and scientific interest in fire refugia that can provide important ecosystem services. Here we provide an overview of fire refugia concepts and products being actively developed and applied in forests of the PNW (Washington, Oregon,…
Publication Type: Journal Article