Research Brief: Invasive Insects and the Persistence of Oak-Pine Forests in the Mid-Atlantic Region
How will accelerating changes in forest composition and structure driven by insects affect future wildfire activity and forest resilience?
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NAFSE
- Dec 10, 2019
Research Brief: Discovering Red Pine Fire History in New England
An investigation of pine fire history in the Adirondack Mountains of New York by the Missouri Tree Ring Laboratory.
NAFSE
- Jul 17, 2019
Research Brief– Fire and Invasives: Ailanthus altissima
Understanding how prescribed fire and herbicide affect the non-native species Ailanthus altissima (stink tree).
NAFSE
- Dec 6, 2018
Research Brief: Insect damage versus prescribed fire: comparing long-term carbon impacts
Disturbances such as prescribed fire and insect defoliation have different impacts on carbon storage in forests.
NAFSE
- Oct 30, 2018
North Atlantic Fire Science Exchange – Fire Science Research Needs Synthesis Report
What fire research was most needed in our region as of 2018? Read this report to delve into the perspectives of NAFSE’s community.
NAFSE
- Sep 7, 2018
Research Brief: Fire and Wildlife- Eastern hognose snakes prefer managed habitat
For animals that like an open canopy, mechanical thinning and prescribed fire can help create and maintain the habitat they need.
NAFSE
- Jul 18, 2018
Research Brief: Understanding fire behavior using modern equipment and methods
A description of instrumentation used to measure prescribed burns in the pinelands of New Jersey.
NAFSE
- May 14, 2018
Prescribed fire effects: Tick management
Summary of a study by Shane Tripp highlighting the interactions between prescribed fire and ticks in the North Atlantic region.
NAFSE
- Oct 6, 2017
Prescribed fire effects: Aspen’s varied response
This research brief helps set the stage for our Maine fire history panel and field trip. The research covered here focuses on short and...
NAFSE
- Aug 24, 2017
Monitoring techniques: Using citizen science to gather fuels data
A summary of a smartphone app designed to engage the public in estimating forest fuels.
NAFSE
- Jun 28, 2017
Fire and Soil: Effects of seasonality and frequency
Review and summary of "Fire and Soil: Effects of seasonality and frequency".
NAFSE
- Mar 3, 2017
Social science: Fire and fuel management communication strategies
Results of a paper by Dr. Eric Toman and colleagues looking at how to communicate fire and fuel management information to the public.
NAFSE
- Dec 16, 2016
New England Fire History ‘Stress Test’ Project: NE Forest Fire Protection Compact
Documents for each state and province as well as analyses of trends and mega-fire preparedness needs, put together by The Irland Group.
NAFSE
- Dec 5, 2016
Suppression science: Effects of Suppression on the Ecology of the Wildland Urban Interface
How effective suppression in the wildland urban interface results in different forest ecology in these areas.
NAFSE
- Oct 18, 2016
Smoke science: Understanding turbulence effects on smoke during prescribed fires
Research highlighting important observations of how turbulence forms in different types of fires and how this research might be applied.
NAFSE
- Aug 31, 2016
Canada focus: Extreme fire analysis of New England and Atlantic provinces
Summary of a paper by Lloyd Irland which focused on the fire history of extreme fires in New England, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia.
NAFSE
- Aug 22, 2016
Canada focus: Improved delineation of the wildland-urban interface and fire risk in Nova Scotia
A sound method for prioritizing resources in fire-fighting or mitigation, applied to a municipal wildland-urban interface in Nova Scotia.
NAFSE
- Jul 10, 2016
Recent Research: Oak regeneration with prescribed fire
Dr. Jeffrey Ward's research in Connecticut investigating silvicultural treatments in combination with prescribed fire.
NAFSE
- Jul 10, 2016
Fire-oak research synthesis: What do we know?
Highlights from the recent Joint Fire Science Program-funded Fire-Oak Synthesis by Brose, Dey, and Waldrop from 2014.
NAFSE
- Feb 26, 2016
Prioritizing prescribed fire areas: a geographical approach
Using LANDFIRE vegetation and fire return intervals to help pinpoint high priority areas for prescribed fire in the WUI.
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