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Association for Fire Ecology

About
Welcome to AFE
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Fire Ecology
Cultural Fire
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Code of Ethics
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SAFE Overview
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SAFE Chapters
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World of Wildland Fire
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Fire Ecology Journal
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Fire Ecology Chats: A Podcast Series

Administrative Director
August 29, 2023

Episode 24: Fuel treatment effectiveness at the landscape scale: a systematic review of simulation studies comparing treatment scenarios in North America

Administrative Director
August 29, 2023
Episode 24: Fuel treatment effectiveness at the landscape scale: a systematic review of simulation studies comparing treatment scenarios in North America

Hear from Francis Kilkenny and Jeff Ott, USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, about a systematic literature review of fuel treatment studies and effectiveness at landscape scales.

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Administrative Director
July 13, 2023

Episode 23: New types of investments needed to address barriers to scaling up wildfire risk mitigation

Administrative Director
July 13, 2023
Episode 23: New types of investments needed to address barriers to scaling up wildfire risk mitigation

Laurie Yung shares results from a study that examined how the wildfire problem is framed, how those frames influence potential solutions, and how reframing can reveal a broader set of solutions.

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Administrative Director
June 21, 2023

Episode 22: A systematic review of empirical evidence for landscape-level fuel treatment effectiveness

Administrative Director
June 21, 2023
Episode 22: A systematic review of empirical evidence for landscape-level fuel treatment effectiveness

Shawn McKinney discusses the main findings from a literature review of studies that tested the influence of landscape-level fuel treatments on subsequent wildfires in North America over the past 30 years.

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Administrative Director
April 17, 2023

Episode 21: Multitemporal lidar captures heterogeneity in fuel loads and consumption on the Kaibab Plateau

Administrative Director
April 17, 2023
Episode 21: Multitemporal lidar captures heterogeneity in fuel loads and consumption on the Kaibab Plateau

Benjamin Bright discusses using airborne lidar data to predict and map canopy and surface fuels across large landscapes.

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Administrative Director
February 17, 2023

Episode 20: Potential operational delineations: new horizons for proactive, risk-informed strategic land and fire management

Administrative Director
February 17, 2023
Episode 20: Potential operational delineations: new horizons for proactive, risk-informed strategic land and fire management

Matt Thompson and Kit O’Connor summarize the growing use of PODs (potential operational delineations) and discuss future opportunities for PODs in cross-boundary and collaborative land and fire management planning.

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Administrative Director
December 1, 2022

Episode 19: Decoupling between soil moisture and biomass drives seasonal variations in live fuel moisture across co-occurring plant functional types

Administrative Director
December 1, 2022
Episode 19: Decoupling between soil moisture and biomass drives seasonal variations in live fuel moisture across co-occurring plant functional types

Tegan Brown shares results from research conducted in Lubrecht Experimental Forest in Montana, USA that explored the drivers of seasonal fluctuations in live fuel moisture content.

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Administrative Director
September 18, 2022

Episode 18: Pre-Columbian red pine fire regimes of north-central Pennsylvania, USA

Administrative Director
September 18, 2022
Episode 18: Pre-Columbian red pine fire regimes of north-central Pennsylvania, USA

Joseph Marschall and Daniel Dey discuss their work in a study that resulted in the longest fire-scar record in eastern North America.

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Administrative Director
July 13, 2022

Episode 17: Prescribed fire limits wildfire severity without altering ecological importance for birds

Administrative Director
July 13, 2022
Episode 17: Prescribed fire limits wildfire severity without altering ecological importance for birds

Co-authors Quresh Latif, Victoria Saab, and Jonathan Dudley share results of a nine year study that assessed avian relationships with prescribed fire and wildfire.

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Administrative Director
April 22, 2022

Episode 16: Drivers of understory plant communities in Sierra Nevada mixed conifer forests with pyrodiversity

Administrative Director
April 22, 2022
Episode 16: Drivers of understory plant communities in Sierra Nevada mixed conifer forests with pyrodiversity

Kate Wilkin shares results from a study exploring how pyrodiversity relates to plant diversity in Sierra Nevada mixed conifer forests.

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Administrative Director
March 16, 2022

Episode 15: Assessing the role of short-term weather forecasts in fire manager tactical decision-making: a choice experiment

Administrative Director
March 16, 2022
Episode 15: Assessing the role of short-term weather forecasts in fire manager tactical decision-making: a choice experiment

Claire Rapp and Matt Jolly share the results of an experiment assessing the role of short-term weather forecasts in fire managers’ decision-making.

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Administrative Director
March 4, 2022

Episode 14: Housing arrangement and vegetation factors associated with single-family home survival in the 2018 Camp Fire, California

Administrative Director
March 4, 2022
Episode 14: Housing arrangement and vegetation factors associated with single-family home survival in the 2018 Camp Fire, California

Yana Valachovic and Eric Knapp discuss results from their 2021 article in Fire Ecology, “Housing arrangement and vegetation factors associated with single-family home survival in the 2018 Camp Fire, California.”

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Administrative Director
January 27, 2022

Episode 13: Predicting wildfire impacts on the prehistoric archaeological record of the Jemez Mountains, New Mexico, USA

Administrative Director
January 27, 2022
Episode 13: Predicting wildfire impacts on the prehistoric archaeological record of the Jemez Mountains, New Mexico, USA

Megan Friggens and Rachel Loehman share results reported in their 2021 article, “Predicting wildfire impacts on the prehistoric archaeological record of the Jemez Mountains, New Mexico, USA.”

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Administrative Director
April 16, 2021

Podcast Episode 12: Detecting Shrub Recovery in Sagebrush Steppe

Administrative Director
April 16, 2021

Cara Applestein and Matt Germino share results reported in their recent article, “Detecting shrub recovery in sagebrush steppe: comparing Landsat-derived maps with field data on historical wildfires.”

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Administrative Director
March 17, 2021

Podcast Episode 11: Spatial Scale in Prescribed Fire Regimes

Administrative Director
March 17, 2021
Podcast Episode 11: Spatial Scale in Prescribed Fire Regimes

David Mason and Marcus Lashley discuss their recent article focused on the spatial scale of fire and its influence on conservation outcomes.

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Administrative Director
March 17, 2021

Podcast Episode 10: Spectral Indices and Soil Burn Severity

Administrative Director
March 17, 2021
Podcast Episode 10: Spectral Indices and Soil Burn Severity

In this episode, Cristina Fernández, discusses the applicability of remote sensing to determining changes in soil properties after wildfire.

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Administrative Director
February 18, 2021

Podcast Episode 9: Fire Management, Policies, and Change

Administrative Director
February 18, 2021
Podcast Episode 9: Fire Management, Policies, and Change

In this episode, Courtney Schultz (Colorado State University) and Matthew Thompson (US Forest Service) discuss US Forest Service fire management and why changes have been elusive.

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Administrative Director
February 18, 2021

Podcast Episode 8: Post-fire Tree Mortality Models

Administrative Director
February 18, 2021
Podcast Episode 8: Post-fire Tree Mortality Models

Learn about a recent evaluation of the accuracy of post-fire tree mortality models from Alina Cansler at the University of Washington.

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Administrative Director
January 5, 2021

Podcast Episode 7: Tree Regeneration in the Western US

Administrative Director
January 5, 2021
Podcast Episode 7: Tree Regeneration in the Western US

In this episode, Camille Stevens-Rumann discusses the findings of a scientific literature review on post-fire tree regeneration in the western US.

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Administrative Director
November 6, 2020

Podcast Episode 6: Communicating Fire Science through Art

Administrative Director
November 6, 2020
Podcast Episode 6: Communicating Fire Science through Art

This episode features Melanie Colavito, Collin Haffey, and Cari Kimball discussing the Fires of Change collaborative art exhibit, which was designed to communicate about shifting fire regimes in the Southwest.

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Administrative Director
October 9, 2020

Podcast Episode 5: Empowering Strategic Decision-making for Wildfire Management

Administrative Director
October 9, 2020
Podcast Episode 5: Empowering Strategic Decision-making for Wildfire Management

Marc Castellnou and Marta Miralles discuss a methodology for strategic decision-making for wildland firefighters, managers, and responders.

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