Joint Fire Science Program

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This JFSP publication is a summarization of a current issue and is produced several times each year.

JFSP Briefs

These JFSP publications are a summarization of a completed research project.

Burned Landscapes of Southwestern Oregon: What is In It for Northern Spotted Owls?
Have It Your Way: Open Source Software Brings Common Ground to Smoke Management and Emissions Inventories
Keep the Home Fires Burning: Rare Birds and Better Abodes in Southeastern Arizona
Testing the Conventional Wisdom: Fuel Management Approaches for the Central Hardwood Region
The Impossible Summer Burn: Techniques for Fuel Reduction, Habitat Restoration and Happy Locals in Northeastern Pine Barrens
The Tao of Treating Weeds: Reaching for Restoration in the Northern Rocky Mountains

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JFSP New Research

Wildland Fire Use
The history and evolution of wildland fire use
Patterns in lightning caused fires at Great Smokey Mountains National Park
Effects of multiple wildland fires on ponderosa pine stand structure in two southwestern wilderness areas USA
Simulation of the consequences of different fire regimes to support wildland fire use decisions
Firescarring patterns in Sierra Nevada wilderness areas burned by multiple wildland fire use fires
Spatial patterns of large natural fires in Sierra Nevada wilderness areas
Interactions Among Wildland Fires in a long-established Sierra Nevada natural fire area
Forest Community Connections
New Book On Evolving Forest Communities
Fire Decision Modeling
Decision modeling for determining fire action outcomes
Great Basin
Effects of a spring prescribed burn on the soil seed bank in a sagebrush steppe exhibiting pinyon-juniper expansion
Ecology, Management, and Restoration of Pinon-Juniper and Ponderosa Pine Ecosystems: Combined Proceedings of the 2005 St. George, Utah and 2006 Albuquerque, New Mexico Workshops
Smoke Management
Sensitivity of air quality simulation to smoke plume rise

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