Advancing Dendrochronological Studies of Fire in the United States

Harley, Grant L.; Baisan, Christopher H.; Brown, Peter M.; Falk, Donald A.; Flatley, William T.; Grissino-Mayer, Henri D.; Hessl, Amy; Heyerdahl, Emily K.; Kaye, Margot W.; Lafon, Charles W.; Margolis, Ellis Q.; Maxwell, Richard; Naito, Adam T.; Platt, William; Rother, Monica T.; Saladyga, Thomas; Sherriff, Rosemary L.; Stachowiak, Lauren A.; Stambaugh, Michael C.; Sutherland, Elaine Kennedy; Taylor, Alan H.

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“…Her notable works include an evaluation of the impacts of drought and regional climate on fire occurrence in the northwestern United States [139,140] and the interaction of fires, herbivory, and humans on aspens stands in western Wyoming [141]. Her recent works have included an assessment of climate and fire in Mongolia over the last 500 years [142] and contributions to an article calling for advances in the use of dendrochronological assessments of fires in the United States [143].Jill F. Johnstone is a freelance researcher at the Northern Plant Ecology Lab (NPEL). Dr. Johnstone was formerly a professor at the University of Saskatchewan and is now an adjunct professor at the [158] and furthering the understanding of the biotic and abiotic constraints on fire occurrence [159,160].…”

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Recognizing Women Leaders in Fire Science

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Kolden

Prichard

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Across the breadth of fire science disciplines, women are leaders in fire research and development. We want to acknowledge some of these leaders to promote diversity across our disciplines. In Fire, we are also happy to announce a new Special Collection, through which we will continue to acknowledge current and future Diversity Leaders in Fire Science by inviting contributions from the leaders in this editorial, among others.Keywords: leadership; women in science The Need to Recognize Women Leaders in Fire ScienceIn 1965, Alice Rossi asked a fundamental question: "Why so few women in science?" [1]. It has long been recognized that women are underrepresented in science, technology, engineering, and mathematical (STEM) disciplines, with a substantial dialogue in the literature as to the impacts of such underrepresentation. As representation has increased, the debate now focuses on additional questions of equity in leadership, funding, advancement, and mechanisms of support for female scientists. These questions are embedded in three foundational concepts: (1) all scientists, regardless of gender, deserve equal access to opportunities; (2) the smartest and most talented people (regardless of gender) should be conducting scientific research, such that the most critical breakthroughs and contributions are realized; and (3) to understand and solve complex fire science problems, a broad diversity of perspectives, modes of problem attack, and epistemologies are needed [2]. We also acknowledge the need to recognize other underrepresented voices in the fire science community, such as indigenous and racial minorities, individuals with disabilities, and the LGBTQIA community, who all bring different ways of doing and knowing to science.The reader may understandably ask: Why this journal? In fire science, there is a distinct and critical need to increase the recognition of women. Natural hazards research more broadly has widely recognized that women are more vulnerable to natural disasters, and female scientists in other natural hazard disciplines have brought an important perspective to the research that facilitates understanding and reducing such gender disparities. An equivalent gender dialogue does not yet exist in wildfire science but will be necessary to reduce vulnerabilities (e.g., smoke impacts on health, post-traumatic stress disorder following evacuation) and also understand the unique perspectives women have on wildfire as an ecological process. For example, women globally bear much of the childrearing duties; a key fire science question one might ask is whether acceptance of prescribed fire by communities is gendered based on perceptions of impacts to children? The reader may also question the mixed genders of the authors of this editorial. Many proponents of increased recognition of women in science have highlighted that a major part of the problem has been that not enough male allies stand up publicly for their female colleagues, in part because some are embarrassed, fearful, or even feel, and are so...

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“…Her notable works include the assessment of the impacts of repeated prescribed fires on mixed-oak forests in Ohio [260,261], and an assessment of fire-scar formations in oak species [262]. Her recent works include an assessment of fire scars in three North American conifer species [263], and contributions to a recent perspective on the future of dendrochronology in fire science [264].…”

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Recognizing Women Leaders in Fire Science: Revisited

Smith

Strand

2018

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In August, 2018, an editorial in Fire entitled Recognizing Women Leaders in Fire Science was published. This was intended to ignite a conversation into diversity in fire science by highlighting several women leaders in fire research and development. This editorial was released alongside a new Topical Collection in Fire called Diversity Leaders in Fire Science. The response on social media was fantastic, leading to numerous recommendations of women leaders in fire science that had been inadvertently missed in the first editorial. In this editorial, we acknowledge 145 women leaders in fire science to promote diversity across our disciplines. Fire is continually committed to improving diversity and inclusion in all aspects of the journal and welcomes perspectives, viewpoints, and constructive criticisms to help advance that mission.

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“…In recent decades, tree-ring fire histories have advanced our understanding of fire regimes in a range of ecosystems across planet Earth (e.g., in Fennoscandia [7], Mongolia [8], and Patagonia [9]), as well as locally in New Mexico, including in piñon-juniper savannas [10], dry and wet mixed-conifer forests [11], and oak shrubfields [12]. These century-long records can provide information about historical fire frequency, severity, seasonality, and size and the fire-climate relationships prior to widespread grazing, timber harvest, and fire suppression [13]. Networks of cross-dated fire scars with sub-annual (seasonal) precision ( Figure 1) can provide a unique and local understanding of the drivers of the spatial and temporal variabilities of fire regimes [14].…”

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Surface Fire to Crown Fire: Fire History in the Taos Valley Watersheds, New Mexico, USA

Johnson

Margolis

2019

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Tree-ring fire scars, tree ages, historical photographs, and historical surveys indicate that, for centuries, fire played different ecological roles across gradients of elevation, forest, and fire regimes in the Taos Valley Watersheds. Historical fire regimes collapsed across the three watersheds by 1899, leaving all sites without fire for at least 119 years. Historical photographs and quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides Michx.) ages indicate that a high-severity fire historically burned at multiple high-elevation subalpine plots in today's Village of Taos Ski Valley, with large high-severity patches (>640 ha). Low-severity, frequent (9-29-year median interval) surface fires burned on the south aspects in nearby lower elevation dry conifer forests in all watersheds. Fires were associated with drought during the fire year. Widespread fires commonly burned synchronously in multiple watersheds during more severe drought years, preceded by wet years, including fire in all three watersheds in 1664, 1715, and 1842. In contrast, recent local "large" wildfires have only burned within single watersheds and may not be considered large in a historical context. Management to promote repeated low-severity fires and the associated open stand structures is within the historical range of variability in the dry conifer forests of these watersheds. In the high-elevation, subalpine forests, different management approaches are needed, which balance ecological and socioeconomic values while providing public safety.

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Advancing Dendrochronological Studies of Fire in the United States

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Recognizing Women Leaders in Fire Science

Recognizing Women Leaders in Fire Science

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Surface Fire to Crown Fire: Fire History in the Taos Valley Watersheds, New Mexico, USA

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