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Beyond the 1984 Perspective: Narrow Focus on Modern Wildfire Trends Underestimates Future Risks to Water Security
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Title | Beyond the 1984 Perspective: Narrow Focus on Modern Wildfire Trends Underestimates Future Risks to Water Security |
| Creator | Murphy, Brendan P. Yocom, Larissa L. Belmont, Patrick |
| Description | The western United States remains well below historical wildfire activity, yet misconceptions abound in the public and news media that the area burning by wildfire each year in the American West is unprecedented. We submit that short‐term records of wildfire and a disproportionate focus on recent fire trends within high‐profile science stoke these misconceptions. Furthermore, we highlight serious risks to long‐term water security (encompassing water supply, storage, and quality) that have... |
| Date | 2018-10-23T07:00:00Z |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Identifier | https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/eco_pubs/53 info:doi/10.1029/2018EF001006 https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/context/eco_pubs/article/1052/viewcontent/Murphy_et_al_2018_Earth_27s_Future.pdf |
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| Source | Ecology Center Publications |
| Publisher | Hosted by Utah State University Libraries |
| Contributor | American Geophysical Union |
| Subject | Wildfire fire ecology water resources geomorphology reservoir sedimentation western United States Forest Sciences Life Sciences Terrestrial and Aquatic Ecology |
