Publications

Tribal leaders, scholars and others working with tribes on climate change issues are increasingly engaged in bringing tribal voices to academic literature, agency climate reports, and other publications to demonstrate the impacts of climate change on indigenous communities in the United States, and the measures tribes across the country are taking to address climate change. Abstracts and materials provided by the publications are included in the descriptions.

Publication Year Geography Website
Tania Schoennagel, Penny Morgan, Jennifer Balch, Philip Dennison, Brian Harvey, Richard Hutto, Meg Krawchuk, Max Moritz, Ray Rasker, and Cathy Whitlock. 2016. Insights from wildfire science: a resource for fire policy discussions.

Categories: Wildfire, Climate Adaptation

2016 National Link
Matt Richtel and Fernanda Santosapril. 2016. Wildfires, Once Confined to a Season, Burn Earlier and Longer. New York Times.

Categories: Wildfire, Climate Change

2016 National Link
Littell, J. S., McKenzie, D., Wan, H. Y., & Cushman, S. A. (2018). Climate Change and Future Wildfire in the Western United States: An Ecological Approach to Nonstationarity. Earth's Future, 6(8). doi:https://doi.org/10.1029/2018EF000878

Categories: wildfire, climate change, climate projections, wildfire preparedness

2018 Western United States Link
W. Matt Jolly, Mark A. Cochrane, Patrick H. Freeborn, Zachary A. Holden, Timothy J. Brown, Grant J. Williamson & David M. J. S. Bowman. 2015. Climate-induced variations in global wildfire danger from 1979 to 2013. Nature Communications (6).

Categories: Wildfire, Climate Impacts, Wildfire Variability

2015 National, International Link
Schick, Tony. “Can 'Moneyball' Fix How The West Manages Wildfire? .” OPB, 16 July 2018, www.opb.org/news/article/fire-wildfire-west-management-science-data-risk-moneyball/?utm_campaign=FirstLook&utm_source=firstlook&utm_medium=email.

Categories: wildfire, controlled burns

2018 National Link
Tribal Wildfire Resource Guide. 2006

Categories: Wildfire, federal forest, fire policy, programs, planning, prevention, case studies

2006 Midwest, United States, National Link
Halofsky, J.E., Peterson, D.L. & Harvey, B.J. Changing wildfire, changing forests: the effects of climate change on fire regimes and vegetation in the Pacific Northwest, USA. fire ecol 16, 4 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1186/s42408-019-0062-8

Categories: wildfire, fire management, changing climate, forest management, risk assessment

2020 Pacific Northwest Link
Reilly, M.J., Dunn, C.J., Meigs, G.W., Spies, T.A., Kennedy, R.E., Bailey, J.D. and Briggs, K., 2017. Contemporary patterns of fire extent and severity in forests of the Pacific Northwest, USA (1985–2010). Ecosphere, 8(3):e01695. DOI 10.1002/ecs2.1695

Categories: wildfire, fire, fuels, management, climate change, adaption, reduction, mitigation, planning policy, prevention

2017 Western United States. Link
Hallema, D.W., Sun, G., Bladon, K.D., Norman, S.P., Caldwell, P.V., Liu, Y. and McNulty, S.G. In press. Regional Patterns of Post‐Wildfire Streamflow Response in the Western United States: The Importance of Scale‐Specific Connectivity. Hydrological Processes. DOI: 10.1002/hyp.11208.

Categories: wildfire, fire, fuels, suppression, prevention, climate change, management, planning, policy, mitigation, adaptation

2017 Western United States Link
WRSC. 2016. Western Region 2016 Accomplishment Report.

Categories: wildfire, fire, management, climate change, prevention, adaptation, mitigation, planning, policy

2016 Western United States Link
US Senate Committee on Energy & Natural Resources.2016. Senators Work to Improve Forest Management and Wildfire Budgeting. Press Release.

Categories: Wildfire, Forest Management, Natural Resource Management

2016 National Link
Butsic, V.; Kelly, M.; Moritz, M.A. Land Use and Wildfire: A Review of Local Interactions and Teleconnections. Land 2015, 4, 140-156. https://doi.org/10.3390/land4010140

Categories: wildfire, land use, fire management

2015 California, American West Link
Lundgren, H., Cook, K. 2017. Telling the “Good Fire” Story: Two Communities’ Prescribed Fire Outreach Efforts.

Categories: wildfire, managed burn, prescribed burn, management, planning, policy, adaptation, mitigation, community resilience, air quality, ecosystem, habitat

2017 Washington state, United States, National Link
Stephen Pyne. 2017. Recreating forests of the past isn't enough to fix our wildfire problem.

Categories: wildfire, managed fire, prescribed burn, management, prevention, ecosystem, beneficial, fuels, fire science, ecology, resilience

2017 United States, National Link
Haugo, R. D., Kellogg, B. S., Cansler, C. A., Kolden, C. A., Kemp, K. B., Robertson, J. C., . . . Restaino, C. M. (2019). The missing fire: Quantifying human exclusion of wildfire in Pacific Northwest forests, USA. Ecosphere, 10(4). doi:10.1002/ecs2.2702

Categories: wildfire, PNW, fire regimes, ecosystems, adaptation

2019 Pacific Northwest Link
Gerretsen, Isabelle. “Fight Fires with Indigenous Knowledge, Researchers Say.” Thomas Reuters Foundation News, 13 Aug. 2018, news.trust.org//item/20180813085232-1lw0o/.

Categories: wildfire, traditional knowledge, controlled burn, indigenous stewardship

2018 International Link
USDA Forest Service. Science Update: Fuel Treatments: Are We Doing Enough? vol. 25, pp. 1–16, Science Update: Fuel Treatments: Are We Doing Enough?

Categories: wildfire, unhealthy forests, forest management, fire-adapted forests, fuel treatments, land management, fire-resilient

2018 Pacific Northwest Link
Collins, Brandon M., et al. “How Does Forest Recovery Following Moderate-Severity Fire Influence Effects of Subsequent Wildfire in Mixed-Conifer Forests?” Fire Ecology, 30 Aug. 2018, doi:https://doi.org/10.1186/s42408-018-0004-x.

Categories: wildfire, wildfire impacts, forests, tree species, reburn

2018 North America Link
Indian Country Today

Categories: wildfires, mitigation, Apache, BIA

2019 U.S. Link
Hasan, Mejs. “Native Tribes Are Taking Fire Control Into Their Own Hands.” Wired, Conde Nast, 13 Aug. 2018, https://www.wired.com/story/wildfires-native-tribes-controlled-burns/

Categories: wildfires, traditional knowledge, controlled burns, indigenous stewardship

2018 Oregon, California Link

Categories: world hunger, malnutrition, obesity, climate variability, climate change, agriculture

2018 International Link
Jenni K, Graves D, Hardiman J, Hatten J, Mastin M, Mesa M, Montag JM, Nieman T, Voss F, Maule A (2014) Identifying stakeholder-relevant climate change impacts: a case study in the Yakima River Basin, Washington, USA. Clim Chang

Categories: Yakima River Basin, Climate change, Traditional Knowledge, tribe, indigenous

2014 Northwest Link
Sloan, K. (2009). Climate Change Issues & Needs for the Yurok Tribe. Impacts of Climate Change on Tribes in the United States, National Tribal Air Association. Attachment L.

Categories: Yurok tribe, tribe, indigenous, Climate change

2009