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  • Citizen-agency interactions : an investigation of postfire environments

    Creator:
    Olsen, Christine Shaw
    Abstract:
    Wildfire management has grown increasingly complex in recent years, particularly in the West and in the Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) where a steady population growth has resulted in greater risk to people and property. Recent trends suggest the process of recovering from large fires (>100,000 acres) will become increasingly important to...
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
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    agencies and communities (National Interagency Fire Center 2007). However, many forest management

  • Post-fire vegetation response to snow in the western United States

    Creator:
    Blauvelt, Katie
    Abstract:
    The western United States is experiencing significant changes in wildfire and snow regimes as a result of warming temperatures. An amplification of wildfire activity and reduction in snow water equivalent, snow covered area, and earlier spring snowmelt are documented trends that are projected to continue into the future. With an...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    , lightning strikes ignited the Biscuit Fire in the Siskiyou National Forest of southwestern Oregon and