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Fire Science

Monitoring, understanding, and projecting the spatial and temporal patterns of ecosystem disturbances and their impacts on society, water supplies, carbon cycling, and other ecosystem disturbances is a pressing need.

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Buffelgrass

Mapping When and Where Invasive Buffelgrass is Green at Saguaro National Park in Arizona.
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Buffelgrass

Mapping When and Where Invasive Buffelgrass is Green at Saguaro National Park in Arizona.
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Integrated Wildland Fire Science

The size and number of large wildland fires in the western United States have grown dramatically over the past decade, with a contingent rise in damages and suppression costs. This trend will likely continue with further growth of the wildland urban interface (WUI) into fire prone ecosystems, hazardous fuel conditions from decades of fire suppression, and a potentially increasing effect from...
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Integrated Wildland Fire Science

The size and number of large wildland fires in the western United States have grown dramatically over the past decade, with a contingent rise in damages and suppression costs. This trend will likely continue with further growth of the wildland urban interface (WUI) into fire prone ecosystems, hazardous fuel conditions from decades of fire suppression, and a potentially increasing effect from...
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