International Journal of Wildland Fire update

             

The most recent edition of the International Journal of Wildland Fire is issue 19, number 6. All IAWF members have free online access to all Journal abstracts and articles via the IAWF website. The Journal publishes new and significant papers that advance basic and applied research concerning wildland fire. It attracts papers on a broad range of wildland fire issues and takes an international perspective because wildland fire plays a major social, economic and ecological role around the globe.

This issue's feature paper is “Adoption and perceptions of shelter-in-place in California's Rancho Santa Fe Fire Protection District” by Travis B. Paveglio, Matthew S. Carroll and Pamela J. Jakes. This article explores public and professional perception of emerging U.S. strategies for protecting local residents during wildland fire events. The authors focus on the social factors leading to implementation of one version of alternatives to evacuation — a broad category of strategies designed to allow residents to remain at home when a wildfire threatens their area.

This most recent issue includes the following research in addition to the featured paper:

• “Building bridges to fight fire: the role of informal social interactions in six Colorado wildland-urban interface communities,” Hannah Brenkert-Smith

• “Field estimation of ash and char colour-lightness using a standard grey scale,” David P. Roy, Luigi Boschetti, Stefan W. Maier and Alistair M.S. Smith

• “Global assessment of the temporal reporting accuracy and precision of the MODIS burned area product,” Luigi Boschetti, David P. Roy, Christopher O. Justice and Louis Giglio

• “Burn severity mapping using simulation modelling and satellite imagery,” Eva C. Karau and Robert E. Keane

• “Integrating fuel treatment into ecosystem management: a proposed project planning process,” Keith D. Stockmann, Kevin D. Hyde, J. Greg Jones, Dan R. Loeffler and Robin P. Silverstein

• “Prescribed burning of thinning slash in regrowth stands of jarrah (Eucalyptus marginata) following bauxite mining in southwest Australia,” Andrew H. Grigg, Melanie A. Norman and Carl D. Grant

• “Minimal effectiveness of native and non-native seeding following three high-severity wildfires,” Ken A. Stella, Carolyn H. Sieg and Pete Z. Fulé

• “Effect of heat shock on germination of 23 plant species in pine-oak and montane cloud forests in western Mexico,” Susana Zuloaga-Aguilar, Oscar Briones and Alma Orozco-Segovia

• “Methods to determine the impact of rainfall on fuels and burned area in southern African savannas,” S. Archibald, A. Nickless, R.J. Scholes and R. Schulze

• “Fuel loading and flammability in the Mediterranean Basin woody species with different post-fire regenerative strategies,” S. Saura-Mas, S. Paula, J.G. Pausas and F. Lloret

• “Understory fire propagation and tree mortality on adjacent areas to an Amazonian deforestation fire,” J.A. Carvalho Jr., C.A. Gurgel Veras, E.C. Alvarado, D.V. Sandberg, S.J. Leite, R. Gielow, E.R.C. Rabelo and J.C. Santos

• “Effect of drying temperature on fuel moisture content measurements,” Stuart Matthews