Fire Science
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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SBSC: Providing Unbiased Actionable Science & Information to Support Natural Resource Management Needs of the U.S. & Department of the Interior Priorities
The U.S. Geological Survey Southwest Biological Science Center (SBSC) is uniquely positioned in the Colorado River Basin to provide sound information, specialized expertise, and innovative tools to support the management and sustained use of natural resources on public and Tribal lands in the Southwest U.S.
Buffelgrass
Mapping When and Where Invasive Buffelgrass is Green at Saguaro National Park in Arizona.
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...