aFor many decades, the policy of the United States Forest Service was to prevent all tires. The policy began to be questioned in the 1960s, when it was realized that fire is an essential part of the life cycle of some trees. This produced the policy of controlled burns to educe underbr...
aThe risk of major wildfires can be reduced partly by a reduction of the amount of fuel present. In wild land, this can be accomplished by either conducting controlled burns, deliberately setting areas on fire under less dangerous weather when conditions are more favorable, or physical fuel remov...
months post-burn (0.25 and 0.02 ± 0.03, respectively), with minimal evidence of recovery (very few burrows detected) 23 months post-burn. We discuss opportunities to develop an adaptive, community-based program for reinstating collaborative, cultural methods of fire management and monitoring regimes...