The Black Hills region of South Dakota and Wyoming has a unique wildland fire and urban interface problem unlike most other areas in the Western United States. Like many other forested regions of the West, however, forest fuels have become more abundant during the last century. Long-term fire...
Large wildland fires across the Western US occur more frequently during periods of drought and/or excessively warm temperatures; however, the effects of long-term precipitation and temperature anomalies on fire season severity across the varied fuel models of South Dakota are less understood. In this...