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.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s42408-022-00146-3

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 https://fireecology.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s42408-022-00139-2

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 groundcover plant, an understory shrub, and an overstory tree species.

Full journal article can be found at https://fireecology.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s42408-022-00136-5

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://fireecology.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s42408-022-00135-6

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/s42408-021-00123-2

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://fireecology.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s42408-021-00117-0

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.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s42408-021-00103-6