Indigenous communities in the Pacific West of North America have long depended on fire to
steward their environments, and they are increasingly asserting the importance of cultural …

Extreme wildfire events in recent years are shaking our established knowledge of how fire
regimes respond to climate variables and how societies need to react to fire impacts. Albeit …

The intersection of expanding human development and wildland landscapes—the “wildland–
urban interface” or WUI—is one of the most vexing contexts for fire management because it …

Prior research suggests that Indigenous fire management buffers climate influences on
wildfires, but it is unclear whether these benefits accrue across geographic scales. We use a …

Fire suppression is the primary management response to wildfires in many areas globally.
By removing less-extreme wildfires, this approach ensures that remaining wildfires burn …

The development and application of luminescence dating and dosimetry techniques have
grown exponentially in the last several decades. Luminescence methods provide age …

Fire suppression has become a fundamental approach for shaping contemporary wildfire
regimes. However, a growing body of research suggests that aggressive fire suppression …

Land management for conservation alters the abiotic and biotic components that underly
belowground ecosystem health and function. We know that prescribed burning and grazing …

In landscapes that support economic and cultural activities, human communities actively
manage environments and environmental change at a variety of spatial scales that …

Fire frequency and intensity are increasing due to higher temperatures and more droughts.
The distributions of fuels (vegetation in natural conditions) are also changing in response to …