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Despite the pandemic, Future of Fire postdoc Dr. Nina Fontana developed and contributed to a range of projects with cultural fire practitioners from 2021-2023. This funding will provide her an additional year to complete and grow projects started with partners as a Future of Fire fellow. Fontana’s work focuses on two broad areas: (1) improving best practices in teaching and learning about cultural fire, and (2) developing culturally relevant decision support tools to support cultural fire practitioners. Fontana will continue to develop and assess group experiential learning and practices that expand cultural fire education for different audiences. She will also continue her collaborations with tribal partners...
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Tags: 2023,
CASC,
Climate Refugia,
Collaboration,
Cultural Fire, All tags...
Decision Support Tools,
Drought, Fire and Extreme Weather,
Drought, Fire and Extreme Weather,
Fire,
Fire,
High-Impact Learning Practices,
Indigenous Burning,
Indigenous Peoples,
Indigenous Peoples,
Projects by Region,
Science Tools for Managers,
Science Tools for Managers,
Social Science,
Social Science,
Southwest,
Southwest CASC,
Tribes and Tribal Organizations,
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Climate change is altering the patterns and characteristics of fire across natural systems in the United States. Resource managers in the Southwest are faced with making natural resource and fire management decisions now, despite a lack of accessible information about how those decisions will play out as fire regimes, and their associated disturbances, will change across the landscape. Decision makers in natural-resource management increasingly require information about projected future changes in fire regimes to effectively prepare for and adapt to climate change impacts. An accessible and forward-looking summary of what we know about the “future of fire” is urgently required in the Southwest and across the country...
Categories: Project;
Types: Map Service,
OGC WFS Layer,
OGC WMS Layer,
OGC WMS Service;
Tags: 2020,
CASC,
Drought, Fire and Extreme Weather,
Drought, Fire and Extreme Weather,
Drought, Fire and Extreme Weather, All tags...
Fire,
Fire,
Fire,
Indigenous Peoples,
Indigenous Peoples,
Projects by Region,
Projects by Region,
Southwest,
Southwest,
Southwest CASC,
Tribes and Tribal Organizations,
Tribes and Tribal Organizations, Fewer tags
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The US faces multiple challenges in facilitating the safe, effective, and proactive use of fire as a landscape management tool. This intentional fire use exposes deeply ingrained communication challenges and distinct but overlapping strategies of prescribed fire, cultural burning, and managed wildfire. We argue for a new conceptual model that is organized around ecological conditions, capacity to act, and motivation to use fire and can integrate and expand intentional fire use as a tool. This result emerges from more considered collaboration and communication of values and needs to address the negative consequences of contemporary fire use. When applied as a communication and translation tool, there is potential...
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