Fire Ecology Chats

In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Kathleen Uyttewaal about results of a study that analyzed local social contexts in rural areas of Spain, Italy and France and assessed how these may inform adaptive capacity to wildland fire.  Full journal article can be found at https://fireecology.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s42408-023-00168-5

In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Francis Kilkenny and Jeff Ott about a systematic literature review, which examined the results of 86 fuel treatment studies and summarized what they reveal about factors determining fuel treatment effectiveness at landscape scales. Full journal article can be found at https://fireecology.springeropen.com/articles/10.1...

In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Laurie Yung at the University of Montana about 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 which may better address key barriers. Full journal article can be found at https://fireecology.springeropen.c...

In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Shawn McKinney, Rocky Mountain Research Station, USDA Forest Service, to learn about the results of 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. Full journal article can be found at https://fireecology.sprin...

In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Benjamin Bright, Rocky Mountain Research Station, USDA Forest Service, to learn about using airborne lidar data to predict and map canopy and surface fuels across large landscapes. Full journal article can be found at https://fireecology.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s42408-022-00142-7

In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Matt Thompson and Kit O’Connor of the Rocky Mountain Research Station, USDA Forest Service, to learn about PODs (potential operational delineations) and discuss current and future opportunities for using PODs in cross-boundary and collaborative land and fire management planning. Full journal article can be found at ht...

In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Tegan Brown, postdoctoral research fellow at the Missoula Fire Sciences Laboratory of the USFS Rocky Mountain Research Station. Tegan shares results from research conducted in Lubrecht Experimental Forest in Montana, USA that explored the drivers of seasonal fluctuations in live fuel moisture content in a herbaceous g...

In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks to co-authors Joseph Marschall and Daniel Dey about a study that resulted in the longest fire-scar record in eastern North America and offers unique foundational ecological information regarding pre-Columbian fire regimes of northeastern USA fire-adapted forest communities. Full journal article can be found at https://fire...

In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks to co-authors Quresh Latif, Victoria Saab, Jonathan Dudley about the results of a nine year study that assessed avian relationships with prescribed fire and wildfire in the Payette National Forest in the central Rocky Mountains, USA. Full journal article can be found at https://fireecology.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186...

In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks to lead author Kate Wilkin, Assistant Professor of Fire Ecology at San Jose State University, about research exploring how pyrodiversity relates to plant diversity in Sierra Nevada mixed conifer forests. Full journal article can be found at https://fireecology.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s42408-021-00111-6

In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Claire Rapp and Matt Jolly about a recently published article that shared results of an experiment assessing the role of short-term weather forecasts in fire managers’ decision-making. Full journal article can be found at https://fireecology.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s42408-021-00119-y

In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Yana Valachovic and Eric Knapp about results from their study that assessed housing arrangement and vegetation-related factors associated with home loss in the 2018 Camp Fire and to determine whether California’s 2008 adoption of exterior building codes improved survival. Full journal article can be found at https://f...

In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane talks with Megan Friggens and Rachel Loehman about results from their study that identified the environmental and climate variables that best predict observed fire severity and fire effects to archaeological features and artifacts in the Jemez Mountains of New Mexico. Full journal article can be found at https://fireecology.sprin...

In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane talks with Cara Applestein and Matthew J. Germino (US Geological Survey, Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center) about results from their recent study that compared on the ground monitoring with remote sensing data for post-fire regeneration and recovery of sagebrush. Full journal article can be found at https://firee...

In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane talks with David Mason and Marcus Lashley at the Department of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, University of Florida about their recent article focused on the spatial scale of fire and its influence on conservation outcomes, with examples from the southeastern US. Full journal article can be found at https://fireecology.s...

In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane talks with Cristina Fernández, a researcher at Centro de Investigación Forestal de Lourizán in Spain, about the potential applicability of remote sensing to determining changes in soil properties after wildfire. Full journal article can be found at https://fireecology.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s42408-020-00089-7

In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane talks with Courtney Schultz (Colorado State University) and Matthew Thompson (US Forest Service) about US Forest Service fire management policies, goal ambiguity, and why change is elusive. Full journal article can be found at https://fireecology.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s42408-019-0028-x

In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Alina Cansler at the School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, University of Washington to share insights on a recent evaluation of the accuracy of post-fire tree mortality models. Full journal article can be found at https://fireecology.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s42408-020-00082-0

In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane is joined by Camille Stevens-Rumann, Assistant Professor at Colorado State University, to discuss the key findings of a literature review on post-fire tree regeneration. Full journal article can be found at https://fireecology.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s42408-019-0032-1

In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane is joined by three authors from a recent paper describing the Fires of Change collaborative art exhibit which was designed to communicate about shifting fire regimes in the Southwest. Hear from Melanie Colavito, Collin Haffey, and Cari Kimball as they describe the exhibit and its impacts on communicating complex ecological issues...

In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane interviews Marc Castellnou and Marta Miralles with the Catalan Fire and Rescue Service in Spain to learn about their methodology for integrating uncertainty and values into decision-making by wildland firefighters, managers, and responders. Full journal article can be found at https://fireecology.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186...

In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane interviews Monique Wynecoop, an Ecologist with the USDA Forest Service stationed at Colville National Forest, to learn about her research focused on integrating traditional knowledge into fuels treatments to improve adaptive management strategies. Full journal article can be found at https://fireecology.springeropen.com/articles/...

In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane interviews Sarah Flanary, Forester with the USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, to explore the findings of a case study surveying the encroachment of whitebark pine into adjacent lower-elevation sagebrush grasslands and higher-elevation subalpine meadows in southwestern Montana, USA. Full journal article can be...

In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane interviews Jessica Halofsky, USDA Forest Service, and David Peterson, University of Washington, to discuss the key points of their paper that synthesizes understanding of the potential effects of changing climate and fire regimes on Pacific Northwest forests. Full journal article can be found at https://fireecology.springeropen.c...

In this inaugural episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane interviews Morgan Varner, Director of Fire Research and Senior Scientist at Tall Timbers Research Station. Morgan shares the ideas and key messages presented by a team of 20 authors in the recent forum article "Prescribed fire science: the case for a refined research agenda." Full journal article can be found at https:/...