Document Type
Newsletter
Journal/Book Title/Conference
Tremblings
Volume
16
Issue
2
Editor
Paul Rogers
Publisher
Western Aspen Alliance
Publication Date
5-2025
First Page
1
Last Page
4
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Abstract
Aspen, Fire, and People: Then and Now
Eva Strand. Professor of Rangeland Ecology, University of Idaho
People living and working in the Great Basin, USA, are observing changing fire conditions. Larger and more frequent fires across the West are well-documented, but less is known about how these changes manifest across Great Basin ecosystems, including in quaking aspen. In our recent Ecosphere paper, mean fire return interval (mFRI) changes across major Great Basin vegetation types between 1961–1990 and 1991–2020, were compared with LANDFIRE’s historical (pre-1900) estimates. For those not familiar with mFRI, it is the average number of years between successive fires at a specific location in a given vegetation type.
Recommended Citation
Western Aspen Alliance, "Tremblings, May 2025" (2025). Tremblings. Paper 61.
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/tremblings/61