@article{39c65925ffd240deb93e7cf2c2ef7131,
title = "Adaptation Strategies and Approaches for Managing Fire in a Changing Climate",
abstract = "As the effects of climate change accumulate and intensify, resource managers juggle existing goals and new mandates to operationalize adaptation. Fire managers contend with the direct effects of climate change on resources in addition to climate-induced disruptions to fire regimes and subsequent ecosystem effects. In systems stressed by warming and drying, increased fire activity amplifies the pace of change and scale of severe disturbance events, heightening the urgency for management action. Fire managers are asked to integrate information on climate impacts with their professional expertise to determine how to achieve management objectives in a changing climate with altered fire regimes. This is a difficult task, and managers need support as they incorporate climate adaptation into planning and operations. We present a list of adaptation strategies and approaches specific to fire and climate based on co-produced knowledge from a science–management partnership and pilot-tested in a two-day workshop with natural resource managers and regional stakeholders. This {"}menu{"} is a flexible and useful tool for fire managers who need to connect the dots between fire ecology, climate science, adaptation intent, and management implementation. It was created and tested as part of an adaptation framework used widely across the United States and should be applicable and useful in many fire-prone forest ecosystems.",
keywords = "Adaptive management, Climate adaptation, Fuel treatments, Prescribed fire, Resilience, Resistance, Restoration, Transition, Wildfire",
author = "Martha Sample and Thode, {Andrea E.} and Courtney Peterson and Gallagher, {Michael R.} and William Flatley and Megan Friggens and Alexander Evans and Rachel Loehman and Shaula Hedwall and Leslie Brandt and Maria Janowiak and Christopher Swanston",
note = "Funding Information: Funding: This project was funded by the Joint Fire Science Program grant number 15-1-03-26, and the US Forest Service Northern Research Station. Funding Information: Acknowledgments: We thank Larissa Yocom, Craig Wilcox, Peter Ful{\'e}, and Donald Falk for their contributions to the first phase of the Southwest FireCLIME project, which were critical for moving toward concepts discussed above. We also thank Stephen Handler (NIACS) for review and discussion, which have improved this manuscript. We thank Ariel Leonard, Alexander Spannuth, Andrew Leiendecker, and Delane Strohmeyer for their ideas, planning, and coordination, which made the workshop with the Kaibab National Forest to test and refine the Fire Menu possible, and additionally thank the workshop participants. This research was supported in part by the USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. The findings and conclusions in this publication are those of the authors and should not be construed to represent any official USDA or US Government determination or policy. This article has been peer reviewed and approved for publication consistent with USGS Fundamental Science Practices (https://pubs.usgs.gov/circ/1367/ accessed on 21 March 2022). Any use of trade, product, or firm names is for descriptive purposes only and does not imply endorsement by the US Government. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland",
year = "2022",
month = apr,
doi = "10.3390/cli10040058",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "10",
journal = "Climate",
issn = "2225-1154",
publisher = "MDPI AG",
number = "4",
}