Liability and prescribed fire: Perception and reality

JR Weir, UP Kreuter, CL Wonkka, D Twidwell… - Rangeland Ecology & …, 2019 - Elsevier
Changing climate and fuel accumulation are increasing wildfire risks across the western
United States. This has led to calls for fire management reform, including the systematic use …

[HTML][HTML] Barriers to prescribed fire in the US great plains, part I: systematic review of socio-ecological research

AS Clark, DA McGranahan, BA Geaumont, CL Wonkka… - Land, 2022 - mdpi.com
Prescribed fire is increasingly being considered as a viable management tool by public and
private land managers. Fully expanding prescribed fire use in a land management context …

The meaning (s) of place: Identifying the structure of sense of place across a social–ecological landscape

K Rajala, MG Sorice, VA Thomas - People and Nature, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Sense of place holds promise to understand how people perceive and respond to social and
ecological change; however, using this concept to explore vulnerability and adaptation first …

Extreme prescribed fire during drought reduces survival and density of woody resprouters

D Twidwell, WE Rogers, CL Wonkka… - Journal of Applied …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Management intervention in ecosystems with degraded environmental services requires
innovative resource management strategies that go beyond conventional restoration and …

The role of prescribed burn associations in the application of prescribed fires in rangeland ecosystems

D Toledo, UP Kreuter, MG Sorice… - Journal of environmental …, 2014 - Elsevier
Risk and liability concerns regarding fire affect people's attitudes toward fire and have led to
human-induced alterations of fire regimes. This has, in turn, contributed to brush …

Smokey comes of age: unmanned aerial systems for fire management

D Twidwell, CR Allen, C Detweiler… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
During the past century, fire management has focused on techniques both to protect human
communities from catastrophic wildfire and to maintain fire‐dependent ecological systems …

Challenges for rotational grazing practice: views from non-adopters across the Great Plains, USA

T Wang, H **, U Kreuter, H Feng, DA Hennessy… - Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Many ranchers who practice rotational grazing have experienced economic and ecological
benefits. However, the adoption rate of rotational grazing has stagnated. To identify major …

Perceptions regarding active management of the Cross-timbers forest resources of Oklahoma, Texas, and Kansas: A SWOT-ANP analysis

M Starr, O Joshi, RE Will, CB Zou - Land Use Policy, 2019 - Elsevier
The Cross-timbers ecoregion, which stretches from north central Texas, through central
Oklahoma, and up into southern Kansas, represents the broad ecotone between the eastern …

Too much, too late: fires and reactive wildfire management in northern Botswana's forests and woodland savannas

L Cassidy, JS Perkins, J Bradley - African Journal of Range & …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Across much of southern Africa's savanna wildernesses, wildfires burn unchecked. This is
particularly true in the woodland savannas of northern Botswana, where wildfires originate …

Forest landowner values and perspectives of prescribed fire in the Northeast/Mid-Atlantic region of the United States

A Regmi, JK Kreye, MM Kreye - Fire Ecology, 2024 - Springer
Background Fire is an important ecological process that shapes structures and compositions
in many ecosystems worldwide. Changes in climate, land use, and long-term fire exclusion …