Annual Growth Rings Reliably Tell Age of Chaparral: Research Brief
/This project verified the common assumption that annual growth rings can be used to determine age in California’s woody chaparral species.
Read MoreAn Early View on Stopping Wildfire Conflagrations: Research Brief
/With dangerous chaparral fires on the rise in the 1970’s, Clive Countryman asks and answers, “[Must] such [conflagrations] be accepted as inevitable in southern California? I think not!” And he outlines a set of fuel modification solutions...
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Alien Plants and Fire in Desert Tortoise Habitat: USGS Research Brief
/Alien plants and fire have recently been recognized as significant land management problems in the Mojave and Colorado deserts, especially as they relate to management of the federally threatened desert tortoise.
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Alien Plant Invasion Following Fire in California Shrublands: USGS Research Brief
/This study looked at alien plant invasion in chaparral and sage scrub ecosystems over a period of five years after fire across a six-county area in southern California.
Read MoreAge and structure of mature knobcone pine forests: Research brief
/Extreme fire intervals are one obvious concern for managers of fire dependent species such as the serotinous knobcone pine (Pinus attenuata).
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A Snapshot of Fire Activity Prior to Fire Suppression: Research Brief
/This 1987 paper by Richard Minnich summarizes newspaper accounts for selected fires between 1868 and 1900 in the San Gabriel Mountains of southern California, and describes in detail the behavior of three summer fires in 1896, 1898 and 1900 on Mt. Wilso.
Read MoreA New Statistical Tool for Delineating Fire Seasons in California: USGS Research Brief
/In this study, prototype summaries are constructed for varying time intervals using California wildfire data from 1990 to 2006, as well as summaries of spatial patterns of fires within each wildfire season.
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A new model for predicting wildfire risk in northeastern Mojave Desert landscapes: USGS Research Brief
/A model has been developed to predict wildfire risk in northeastern Mojave Desert. The model incorporates remote sensing data as well as field sampling data to generate the predicted fire risk.
Read MoreA Historic 1934 Flood after a Chaparral Fire: Research Brief
/This report is one of the first and most dramatic accounts of the southern California “fire-‐flood” cycle that documented the magnitude of postfire debris flows in denuded watersheds.
Read MoreLiDAR survey helps discern fire severity impacts on Yosemite conifer forests: USGS Research Brief
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LiDAR surveys in conjunction with satellite-based remote sensing analysis can help forest managers better understand the changes in forest structure due to fires. Surveys can suggest whether prescribed burns can be used to thin canopy structure in different forest types and restore them to historic patterns.
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