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Connecting Fuels Treatments in the Salish Mountains and Whitefish Range
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Rhishja Cota
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Oct 27, 2022
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Wildland Fire,
Research
This landscape-scale fuels reduction project targets connecting 25 miles of cross boundary fuel reduction treatments within the rapidly expanding wildland urban interface (WUI) and communities at risk of catastrophic wildfire near the Salish Mountains west of Kalispell and north to the Whitefish Range.
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Central Sierra Recovery and Restoration
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Rhishja Cota
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Oct 27, 2022
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Wildland Fire,
State
Treatments to more than 3,100 acres helped create a defensible space for fire fighters to protect four communities during the 2018 Ferguson Fire. This Joint Chiefs’ project helped in reducing fuel loads and removing hazard trees in the wildland urban interface. These practices are critical in reducing the threat of catastrophic wildfire to local communities and sensitive habitats.
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Nebraska Northwest Landscape Restoration
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Rhishja Cota
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Oct 27, 2022
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Wildland Fire,
Projects,
Research
USFS, NRCS, and partners have conducted prescribed burns or mechanically removed cedar on approximately 40,000 acres in the Sandhills grasslands.
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WildfireSAFE: Real-Time Data to Improve Wildfire Management
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Rhishja Cota
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Oct 27, 2022
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Wildland Fire,
Research
WildfireSAFE provides an intuitive platform to access fire weather, hazard and behavior information from the Wildland Fire Assessment System (WFAS) for specific incidents. It supports the greater interagency fire community in the planning, response, and recovery phases of wildfire management.
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Innovation in Fire Tools, Thinking & Approaches
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Comparing Remote Sensing and Field-Based Approaches to Estimate Ladder Fuels and Predict Wildfire Burn Severity
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Rhishja Cota
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Nov 02, 2022
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Remote Sensing,
Research,
Fire Mapping,
Products,
Science and Research Products,
Wildland Fire,
Projects,
Ladder Fuels
A comparative study on remote sensing and field-based approaches to estimate ladder fuel density. Can densities from different approaches predict wildfire burn severity?
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Western Fire Chiefs Association (WFCA) Fire Map
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Rhishja Cota
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Nov 02, 2022
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last modified
Nov 08, 2022 12:22 PM
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Wildland Fire,
Fire Mapping,
Remote Sensing,
Products,
Research
The WFCA Fire Map pulls data from the US Forest Service via National Interagency Fire Center IRWIN feed, and 911 Dispatch data via PulsePoint to track the location of the wildfire as they start and while they’re burning. The WFCA Fire Map is the first map of its kind to pull such data from 911 Dispatch in relevant areas.
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Bootjack Fire Station Water Storage Project
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Rhishja Cota
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Nov 02, 2022
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Wildland Fire,
Communities,
Wildlands Urban Interface,
Product,
Water Storage
The “Bootjack Fire Station Water Storage Project” included the installation of a new water tank at a local fire station in the disadvantaged community of Bootjack. The project’s purpose was to increase local water storage to fight the growing number of wildfires in the region.
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Overwintering behavior reduces mortality for a terrestrial turtle in forests managed with prescribed fire
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Rhishja Cota
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Nov 08, 2022
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Turtle,
Wildlife,
Eastern Box Turtle,
Reptile,
Product,
Brumation,
Prescribed Burn,
Forests,
Wildland Fire,
Research,
Longleaf Pine
Using radiotelemetry, we studied overwintering behavior and interactions with fire in a forest-dwelling terrestrial turtle, the Eastern Box Turtle (Terrapene carolina carolina), over an eight-year period at two sites that use prescribed fire in forest management.
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SFE Webinar: Introduction to the SE FireMap 1.0 - A New Tool to Map Fires Across the South
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Web Editor
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Dec 30, 2020
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last modified
Jun 17, 2025 12:37 PM
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WLFW,
Webinar,
SE FireMap,
Video,
Wildland Fire,
News
The SE FireMap 1.0 is a new fire mapping system for the Southeastern United States. Developed with funding provided by the USDA NRCS, SE FireMap uses a remote sensing-based approach to track both prescribed fire and wildfire activity on public and private lands across the range of the longleaf pine.
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Growing-Season Prescribed Fires and Ground-Nesting Birds: Answers for Longleaf Restoration
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Rhishja Cota
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Apr 24, 2023
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Apr 11, 2024 07:31 PM
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WLFW,
WLFW Training Resources,
Wildland Fire,
Prescribed Burn,
Landscape Conservation,
Birds
This presentation will look at the science behind the use of fire during the "lightning season" (the months of April – July) and its effects on ground-nesting birds such as quail and Bachman’s sparrow.
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