Joint Fire Science Program

Fire Science Digest

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

Big Changes in the Great Basin

The Rothermel Fire-Spread Model: Still Running Like a Champ

The Fire-Climate Connection

JFSP Briefs

Fire Science Briefs

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

All Fired Up: Whitebark Pines are Crucial in the Cascades and Beyond
Earth and Fire: Forest Rely on Healthy Soils for a Well-rounded Diet
Forecast for the Southern Boreal Forest: An Increasing Incidence of Severe Disturbance
How Does a Sierran Forest Grow? Fire, Thinning, and Regenerating Trees
In a Ponderosa Pine Forest, Prescribed Fires Reduce the Likelihood of Scorched Earth
Sagebrush Steppe: A Story of Encroachment and Invasion
Searching, Witnessing, Testing: Plants and Fire in Southern California
Something In the Air: Climate, Fire, and Ponderosa Pine in Southwestern Colorado
When Chaparral and Coastal Sage Scrub Burn: Consequences for Mammals, Management and More

All Fired Up: Whitebark Pines are Crucial in the Cascades and Beyond

Earth and Fire: Forest Rely on Healthy Soils for a Well-rounded Diet

Forecast for the Southern Boreal Forest: An Increasing Incidence of Severe Disturbance

How Does a Sierran Forest Grow? Fire, Thinning, and Regenerating Trees

In a Ponderosa Pine Forest, Prescribed Fires Reduce the Likelihood of Scorched Earth

Sagebrush Steppe: A Story of Encroachment and Invasion

Searching, Witnessing, Testing: Plants and Fire in Southern California

Something In the Air: Climate, Fire, and Ponderosa Pine in Southwestern Colorado

When Chaparral and Coastal Sage Scrub Burn: Consequences for Mammals, Management and More

You can read more Briefs here.

JFSP New Research

Science You Can Use

Communication
Overcoming Barriers to the Use of Science in National Parks
Biomass
Woody Biomass Supply from Thinnings to Reduce Fire Hazard in the U.S. West and Its Potential Impact on Regional Wood Markets
Southern Beetles
Effects of Prescribed Fire and Fire Surrogates on Saproxylic Coleoptera in the Southern Appalachians of North Carolina
Eastern Invasives
Patterns of Exotic Plant Invasions in Pennsylvania’s Allegheny National Forest Using Intensive Forest Inventory and Analysis Plots
Black Hills
Can Prescribed Fire Be Used to Maintain Fuel Treatment Effectiveness Over Time in Black Hills Ponderosa Pine Forests?
Alaska
Fire History and Fire Management Implications in the Yukon Flats National Wildlife Refuge, Interior Alaska
Postfire Valuations for BAER
Nonmarket Resource Valuation in the Postfire Environment
Southwest
Fuel Loadings in Forests, Woodlands, and Savannas of the Madrean Province
Cheatgrass
Fire, Native Species, and Soil Resource Interactions Influence the Spatio-temporal Invasion Pattern of Bromus tectorum
Wildland Fire Suppression Costs
Factors Influencing Large Wildland Fire Suppression Expenditures
Burn Probability
Evaluating Spatially-Explicit Burn Probabilities for Strategic Fire Management Planning
Interior West Fuel Treatments
Objectives and Considerations for Wildland Fuel Treatment in Forested Ecosystems of the Interior Western United States
Emissions
Tropical Forest and Fire Emissions Experiment: Laboratory Fire Measurements and Synthesis of Campaign Data
Shrubland Proceedings
Shrublands Under Fire: Disturbance and Recovery in a Changing World

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