Rangeland Ecology & Management最新文献

{"title":"Editorial Board/Journal Info","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/S1550-7424(25)00053-3","DOIUrl":"10.1016/S1550-7424(25)00053-3","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":49634,"journal":{"name":"Rangeland Ecology & Management","volume":"100 ","pages":"Page IFC"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143906272","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Evaluating High-Frequency, Moderate-Resolution Satellite Imagery for Assessment and Monitoring of Invasive Annual Grasses","authors":"Chloe M. Mattilio ,&nbsp;Octave Lepinard ,&nbsp;Jaycie N. Arndt ,&nbsp;Andrea De Stefano ,&nbsp;Walker Billings ,&nbsp;Brian A. Mealor","doi":"10.1016/j.rama.2024.10.004","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rama.2024.10.004","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Invasive annual grasses (IAGs) represent an unprecedented threat to native plant communities in rangeland ecosystems, displacing native vegetation, altering fire regimes, affecting wildlife species that depend on native perennials for food and shelter, and causing immense economic costs. Remote sensing allows the monitoring of IAGs through multispectral imagery, using phenological differences to separate invasive species from native vegetation. Our research goal was to evaluate the use of high-frequency, moderate-resolution multispectral Planet imagery and machine learning in detecting IAG species – specifically ventenata (<em>Ventenata dubia</em> [Leers] Coss.), medusahead (<em>Taeniatherum caput-medusae</em> [L.] Nevski), cheatgrass (<em>Bromus tectorum</em> L.), and Japanese brome (<em>Bromus japonicus</em> Thunb.). Our research questions were: 1) do IAG species groupings influence remote detection rates? and 2) can high spatio-temporal resolution imagery accurately identify IAG response to large-scale herbicide applications? Ventenata was best represented in our invasive grass training data and by classification models and accuracy indices. Models detected differences in IAG presence likelihood in pastures treated aerially with indaziflam at 73 g · ai · ha⁻¹ and untreated pastures, even in treated locations where no ground mapping took place. This suggests the possibility of extending these invasive grass prediction models beyond ground-mapped training areas in similar mixed-grass prairie environments to increase the efficiency of IAG monitoring.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49634,"journal":{"name":"Rangeland Ecology & Management","volume":"100 ","pages":"Pages 140-149"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143906270","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Atlantic Forest Gross Primary Productivity Dynamics: Remote Sensing and Micrometeorological Perspective","authors":"Romário O. de Santana ,&nbsp;Rafael C. Delgado ,&nbsp;Henderson S. Wanderley ,&nbsp;Renato S. de Souza ,&nbsp;Marcos G. Pereira ,&nbsp;Lúcia Helena C. dos Anjos","doi":"10.1016/j.rama.2025.03.012","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rama.2025.03.012","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The Atlantic Forest, a biodiversity hotspot and critical carbon sink, is under threat from deforestation and fragmentation. This study evaluates gross primary productivity (GPP) in the Itatiaia National Park (PNI), one of Brazil's oldest conservation units, using 19 years of Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer remote sensing data (2001–2020) and 3 years of micrometeorological tower data (2018–2020). GPP was estimated through models integrating vegetation indices (Enhanced Vegetation Index [EVI] and Normalized Difference Vegetation Index) and photosynthetically active radiation (PAR), and validated against FLUXNET data. Seasonal analysis revealed higher GPP values during the rainy season, peaking at 8.07 g C m⁻² day⁻¹ in September, while agricultural areas exhibited the highest GPP, with annual averages above 9.00 g C m⁻² day⁻¹. Temporal trends indicated a decline in GPP across all land use classes, with the most pronounced reduction in vegetative refuges (<em>Z_mk</em> = −1.65, <em>P</em> &lt; 0.10). Among the models tested, the GPP equation using EVI and PAR yielded the highest accuracy (<em>R</em>² = 0.49, <em>d</em> = 0.89, standard error of estimate = 1.91). The study highlights the effectiveness of remote sensing and micrometeorological data in monitoring ecosystem health and underscores the role of conservation units in carbon sequestration. These findings support integrating protected areas into carbon market initiatives, emphasizing their value for biodiversity conservation and climate change mitigation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49634,"journal":{"name":"Rangeland Ecology & Management","volume":"101 ","pages":"Pages 1-12"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143879375","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"15-Yr Biomass Production in Semiarid Nebraska Sandhills Grassland: Part 2-Response to Seasonal Precipitation and Temperature","authors":"Biquan Zhao ,&nbsp;Mitchell B. Stephenson ,&nbsp;Tala Awada ,&nbsp;Jerry D. Volesky ,&nbsp;Brian Wardlow ,&nbsp;Yuzhen Zhou ,&nbsp;Yeyin Shi","doi":"10.1016/j.rama.2025.03.007","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rama.2025.03.007","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Aboveground plant biomass production can exhibit varied responses to within- and across-season weather variability. Using a long-term data set (2007–2021) collected annually from grazing exclosures in a Sandhills grassland in Nebraska, USA, our part-1 paper reported 15 yr of changes in grassland plant production. In this paper, we modeled seasonal weather impacts on total plant biomass and biomass of three plant functional groups using stepwise (forward) linear regression. Biomass data were measured for the following three periods each year: early season (April to midJune), late season (midJune to midAugust), and full season (April to midAugust). Weather variables, derived from precipitation and temperature, were categorized into amount, index, and pattern variables. The temporal variability of each weather variable was quantified across four time periods: three within-season conditions (early season, late-season, and full-season periods of the current year) and an across-season condition (the full-season period of the previous year). The results indicated that plant production responses varied among functional groups and across time periods. Late-season C₄-grass production significantly increased under wetter summer conditions (<em>P</em> &lt; 0.05). A dry growing season in the previous year tended to decrease subsequent-year early season C₃-grass production (<em>P</em> &lt; 0.05), and a warmer growing season in the previous year was likely to enhance subsequent-year forb production (<em>P</em> &lt; 0.001). Total plant production exhibited more complex seasonal patterns, primarily driven by the differences in individual plant functional groups during specific growing periods. This complexity reflects the collective responses of mixed plant functional groups to weather variability. Understanding these complex relationships is fundamental to predicting grassland plant production as well as developing and implementing appropriate grazing strategies that adapt to changing climate variability. This study will ultimately support the enhancement of ecological sustainability and resilience of the Sandhills semiarid grassland ecosystem.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49634,"journal":{"name":"Rangeland Ecology & Management","volume":"101 ","pages":"Pages 13-27"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143879377","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Assessing the Influence of Defoliation on Medusahead (Taeniatherum caput-medusae) Seed Production and Viability in Eastern Oregon","authors":"William J. Price ,&nbsp;April Hulet ,&nbsp;K. Scott Jensen ,&nbsp;Yanming Di ,&nbsp;Jonathan B. Dinkins ,&nbsp;Sergio A. Arispe","doi":"10.1016/j.rama.2025.03.003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rama.2025.03.003","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The invasive annual grass medusahead (<em>Taeniatherum caput-medusae</em> [L.] Nevski) degrades the ecosystem function throughout the sagebrush biome of the western United States. Currently, there are knowledge gaps regarding the fecundity of medusahead and the ability of defoliation treatments (grazing and mowing) to reduce annual seed production. Our research aimed to 1) determine if the timing of defoliation impacts the quantity of seeds produced, and 2) evaluate the impacts of defoliation on the viability of medusahead seeds produced. We used a randomized complete block design (n = 20) in a near-monoculture of medusahead located in southeast Oregon to assess the effectiveness of defoliation three times (November, March, and May) against a nondefoliated control from 2019 to 2022. Outcomes included gross seed production, germination statistics, and a linear regression to rapidly estimate seed production dependent on inflorescence length. We found no evidence that defoliation in November or March reduced seed production relative to the control in all years (<em>P</em> &gt; 0.05). However, the May defoliation produced fewer seeds than the control in all 3 yr (<em>P</em> &lt; 0.05). Defoliation of medusahead had no impact on the viability of seeds produced, with mean germination rates &gt;80% in all treatment-year combinations. Findings did indicate that the number of seeds produced per tiller is strongly correlated with the length of inflorescence (<em>R</em>² = 0.856), indicating that a generalized equation could be used to rapidly assess seed production in future works. The results of this study demonstrate that the effectiveness of defoliation is temporally limited and that the most effective treatments may still fail to reduce seed production by a meaningful degree. These findings indicate that defoliation treatments may be most effective included as a part of multifaceted, ecologically based treatments to effectively manage medusahead in the sagebrush biome.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49634,"journal":{"name":"Rangeland Ecology & Management","volume":"100 ","pages":"Pages 133-139"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143833804","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Manual Soil Resmoothing After Wild Boar Rooting Enables Resuming Mowing Management in Hay Meadows Without Hindering Vegetation Recovery","authors":"Alida A. Hábenczyus ,&nbsp;Csaba Biró ,&nbsp;Csaba Tölgyesi","doi":"10.1016/j.rama.2025.03.002","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rama.2025.03.002","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Wild boar (<em>Sus scrofa</em>) is a widespread megaherbivore that can intensively disturb large areas of its habitat both in its native and non-native ranges, when populations reach high densities. The main problem is its rooting habit, which entails intensive disturbance of the topsoil and herbaceous layer. The extent of concomitant habitat degradation varies across ecoregions; some ecosystems are rather resilient, although the damages are long-lasting in others. In mown meadows, a secondary problem is the inability to resume mowing due to the uneven soil surface of rooted patches. This can lead to both economic loss and a loss of management-dependent biodiversity. We assessed the short-term effects of rooting on vegetation cover and composition in central European permanent hay meadows and tested the utility of manual soil surface resmoothing to enable the continuation of mowing. We found that rooting increased bare soil surface but vegetation recovery occurred within a year. Similarly, high resilience was found for species composition. We could not detect any difference between rooted and intact grassland patches after 1 yr. This short-term perturbation of the composition could be associated with a temporary decrease in grassland specialist species and an increase in ruderal and pioneer species. Soil surface resmoothing was an additional disturbance, but vegetation cover returned to the level of intact grasslands within a year. Vegetation composition needed a slightly longer time (2 yr) to recover than that without resmoothing. We thus recommend the application of manual resmoothing in hay meadows with high short-term resilience to rooting, but a risk of long-term degradation (e.g., shrub encroachment) if mowing is not resumed. In hay meadows with lower resilience (because of, e.g., steep slopes), resmoothing should be applied with caution and may be supplemented with seeding to support the recovery of the vegetation and prevent soil erosion.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49634,"journal":{"name":"Rangeland Ecology & Management","volume":"100 ","pages":"Pages 126-132"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143833805","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Variability in Weight Gains of Cows and Their Calves Across Grazing Management and Dam Age Class: Implications for Maternal Productivity","authors":"Devan Allen McGranahan ,&nbsp;Megan R. Wanchuk ,&nbsp;Kevin K. Sedivec ,&nbsp;Marisol Berti ,&nbsp;Kendall C. Swanson ,&nbsp;Torre J. Hovick","doi":"10.1016/j.rama.2025.03.001","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rama.2025.03.001","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Many beef producers in commercial rangelands rely on cow-calf operations. Unlike stocker operations, which typically seek to increase the weight of each animal over a grazing season, cow-calf producers often consider maternal productivity—the performance of both dam and calf—which affects a cow's lifetime reproductive output and longevity. Generally speaking, longer productive lives for cows reduce herd turnover and decrease costs for the producer. As rangeland grazing management strategies are evaluated, it is important also to consider their effects on maternal productivity, not just season-long weight gains. We compared 3 yr of cow and calf weight gains by dam age class to inform how patch-burn grazing, continuous grazing without fire, and rotational grazing might affect maternal productivity in an experimental Angus cow-calf herd in central North Dakota, United States. Overall, grazing management strategy explained variation in weight gain among cows, and dam age class explained variation in calf weight gains, leading us to conclude that mature cows (those with 4+ calves) on patch-burning and continuously grazed pastures had higher maternal productivity than cow-calf units on rotational grazing. When considered alongside previously published evidence that burned areas provided approximately twice as much net energy for maintenance, our data suggest that maternal productivity might be greatest among mature cows on patch-burned pastures, but this remains speculative until the actual intake of metabolizable energy for each cow-calf unit can be determined. These findings contribute further evidence of the potential for marginal gains to be found in grazing burned rangeland, with potentially direct positive effects on the financial viability of cow-calf operations.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49634,"journal":{"name":"Rangeland Ecology & Management","volume":"100 ","pages":"Pages 121-125"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143816822","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Costs of Land Treatments on Public Lands in the Western United States","authors":"James R. Meldrum ,&nbsp;Christopher Huber ,&nbsp;Adrian P. Monroe ,&nbsp;Bryan C. Tarbox ,&nbsp;Michelle I. Jeffries ,&nbsp;David S. Pilliod ,&nbsp;Cameron L. Aldridge","doi":"10.1016/j.rama.2025.03.004","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rama.2025.03.004","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Public land managers often conduct rehabilitation and restoration actions to achieve desired conditions or specific natural resource objectives. These “land treatments” include a variety of techniques, such as biomass removal or manipulation, seeding, and herbicide application. Limited information exists on the costs of conducting many common types of land treatments, but such information can be paired with treatment effectiveness data to prioritize application of limited resources where they may have the greatest benefit and improve efficiency. Here, we investigated cost information recorded in the Land Treatment Digital Library, a catalog of legacy land treatment information on public lands managed by the U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management. Based on 1,701 treatment records across eleven western U.S. states, we developed empirical per-acre cost estimates for representative land treatments in eight categories: three seeding categories (aerial seeding, drill seeding, and seedling planting), prescribed burning, soil disturbance, soil stabilization, vegetation disturbance, and weed control. We evaluated spatio-temporal factors that may be associated with variation in treatment costs and found strong evidence for nonlinear decreases in per-acre costs as treatment areas increased and that per-acre treatment costs have increased in real terms in recent decades. We also found evidence that per-acre costs for drill seeding, prescribed burns, and soil stabilization increased with the average slope of the terrain of a treated area and that per-acre costs for prescribed burns, seedling planting, and soil stabilization were influenced by distance to urban areas or major roads. These results can inform planning, prioritization, and assessment of common land treatments on public lands in the western United States, in particular supporting greater consideration of costs and cost effectiveness.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49634,"journal":{"name":"Rangeland Ecology & Management","volume":"100 ","pages":"Pages 99-110"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143808378","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Developing Large-Scale Pasture Approaches to Quantify Forage Mass in Rangelands Using Drones","authors":"Michael T. Page ,&nbsp;Humberto L. Perotto-Baldivieso ,&nbsp;J. Alfonso Ortega-S ,&nbsp;Evan P. Tanner ,&nbsp;Jay P. Angerer ,&nbsp;Rider C. Combs ,&nbsp;Bradley K. Johnston ,&nbsp;Melaine Ramirez ,&nbsp;Annalysa M. Camacho ,&nbsp;Alexandria M. DiMaggio ,&nbsp;Dwain Daniels ,&nbsp;Tony Kimmet","doi":"10.1016/j.rama.2025.03.005","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rama.2025.03.005","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The use of drones has increased in recent years for monitoring and managing rangelands. High-resolution cameras and improved sensors provide an opportunity to investigate pasture-scale sampling methodology as an operational approach to estimate forage mass on rangelands using canopy height models derived from drone data. Our objectives were (1) to compare double sampling and vegetation clipping methods with very fine 3D data derived from drone-based imagery, (2) to compare forage mass estimation between methods using different numbers of drone-derived samples, and (3) estimate time efficiency of each one of these methods. To accomplish this, we acquired drone imagery in a 1 060-ha pasture in the South Texas Plains ecoregion in June 2020. We used two different pixel sizes for the drone image acquisition: 1.5 cm (50 m above ground level [AGL]) and 3.0 cm (100 m AGL). We compared six forage mass sampling approaches: double sampling (DS-ground), vegetation clipping (VC-ground), drone-double sampling at 50 m (drone-DS50) and 100 m (drone-DS100) AGL, and drone-vegetation clipping at 50 m (drone-VC50) and 100 m (drone-VC100) AGL. We generated 100 and 500 digital samples per site (total 700 and 3500 digital samples) to compare our estimates. Simple linear regression analyses were used to evaluate relationships between drone derived vegetation volume and the forage mass derived from DS and VC. We compared three sampling sizes: 70 field-based quadrats, 700, and 3,500 digital samples. Drone-VC50 with 700 5818 ± 78 kg · ha^-1) and 3,500 (5653 ± 34 kg · ha^-1) samples provided the smallest forage mass estimations at a large-pasture scale. Number of samples.h^-1 increased from 22 to 52 with the DS methods and 1.2 to 38 with the VC methods. Our results suggest that a combination of DS and VC with drone data collection could be a reliable approach for future drone-based forage estimation.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49634,"journal":{"name":"Rangeland Ecology & Management","volume":"100 ","pages":"Pages 111-120"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143808307","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Awareness and Social Interactions Influence Natural Resource Professionals’ Recommendations for Prescribed Fire Use","authors":"Urs P. Kreuter ,&nbsp;Carissa L. Wonkka ,&nbsp;Dirac Twidwell ,&nbsp;Morgan L. Treadwell ,&nbsp;N. Lee May","doi":"10.1016/j.rama.2025.02.003","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.rama.2025.02.003","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Restoring fire in fire-adapted ecosystems is necessary to curtail woody plant expansion, enhance biodiversity, and reduce wildfire risks, yet prescribed fire is promoted less by federal agencies than other grassland conservation practices. The U.S. Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) is the primary federal agency responsible for the delivery of rangeland conservation incentives to private landowners in the Great Plains. The degree to which NRCS employees choose to offer technical guidance on prescribed fire and whether they encourage landowners to consider financial support is not well-understood and varies among states. Our study explored the extent to which <em>prescribed fire awareness</em> and <em>social interaction</em> factors influence NRCS employees' knowledge and comfort level regarding prescribed fire and the frequency with which they recommend this conservation practice. The results show that while <em>prescribed fire awareness</em> influences knowledge, it was not significantly associated with frequency of prescribed fire recommendations. Rather, <em>social interaction</em> factors were significantly related to recommendation frequency; these included priority of prescribed fire education in their jobs, positive interactions with landowners regarding prescribed fire, and how often they were asked to deal with brush management. An important implication is that while better knowledge about prescribed fire is necessary, it is not sufficient for more frequent prescribed fire recommendation by natural resource professionals. Instead of focusing primarily on technical proficiency, federal agencies tasked with expanding the application of prescribed fire as an ecosystem restoration and wildfire mitigation tool should focus more on building stronger social networks through, for example, providing greater support of existing and new prescribed burning associations. Our findings also have implications for a national unified policy that supports the application of prescribed fire on privately-owned rangelands because negative fire culture at the federal level has an erosive effect on agencies’ willingness to assist landowners with prescribed fire applications.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":49634,"journal":{"name":"Rangeland Ecology & Management","volume":"100 ","pages":"Pages 89-98"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143761022","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}