Sentences with phrase «service fire ecologist»

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A study led by ecologists at UC Berkeley has found significant flaws in the research used to challenge the U.S. Forest Service plan to restore Sierra Nevada forests to less dense, and less fire - prone, environments.

The easiest way to keep cheatgrass from out - competing the native plants after a fire, says Dave Pyke, a rangeland research ecologist for the U.S. Geological Service, is to spread sugar on the charred ground.

The worst of the fire season in Southern California may be yet to come, said Hugh Safford, a U.S. Forest Service ecologist based in Vallejo, Calif..

The findings track with the growing body of research on the impact of insects on forest fire severity, said Carolyn Sieg, a research plant ecologist with the U.S. Forest Service.

is a Research Ecologist in the Fire, Fuel and Smoke Science Program at the US Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Missoula Fire Sciences Laboratory.

Matt Jolly, a Forest Service research fire ecologist and the study's lead author, attributed the changes in fire behavior to human - caused changes in climate.

They interviewed U.S. Forest Service ecologist James Vose who stated, «It's very rare to have this many fires burning this amount of area in the Southeast.»

Wildfires have important implications for how much carbon dioxide the land surface can absorb and store, says lead author Dr Matt Jolly, research ecologist in the fire, fuel and smoke program of the US Forest Service.

This could culminate in a feedback loop that adds to global carbon accumulations, said Matt Jolly, a Forest Service researcher and fire ecologist whose study was published in Nature Communications.