Science You Can Use
By Rocky Mountain Research Station
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Episodes: 44
Description
Science You Can Use is a product of USDA Forest Service Research & Development that summarizes and synthesizes current scientific research. In each episode, we read aloud the latest Science You Can Use publication. Each episode delivers key science findings and management implications to people who make and influence decisions about managing land and natural resources in the Intermountain West and beyond.
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How wildland fire incident catering can improve morale and nourish wildland firefighters
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May 25, 2026 |
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Hatch me if you can: New hatchR tool helps predict and protect fish development
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May 11, 2026 |
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Post-fire seeding in the Great Basin: Is more better? Depends on the weather
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May 04, 2026 |
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Trails and Tails: Using smart-phone GPS data to balance recreation and wildlife management
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Apr 27, 2026 |
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Picture Perfect: Inventory snapshots provide valuable forest data at a glance
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Apr 20, 2026 |
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Wildfire and communities: Are there tradeoffs when promoting fire mitigation versus evacuation preparedness?
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Apr 13, 2026 |
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Co-producing Science With Managers: Finding the right time-and-effort balance for those involved
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Mar 30, 2026 |
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First come, first served or lottery—Informing recreation allocation strategies with visitor preferences
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Mar 12, 2026 |
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A big fire with low fire severity: Lessons from the Black Fire
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Mar 03, 2026 |
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Raster Tools: Leveraging spatial analysis and AI towards a fire-resilient future, in minutes
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Feb 17, 2026 |
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Selecting a focal species under the 2012 Planning Rule? A new focal species toolkit streamlines the process
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Feb 10, 2026 |
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It's Alive! "Living Maps" offer a state-of-the-art wildlife habitat monitoring system
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Jan 20, 2026 |
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Quantifying danger: New data on wildland firefighter injuries
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Jan 06, 2026 |
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Trees in distress: Prefire drought increases postfire mortality
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Nov 18, 2025 |
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Birds of a feather benefit from fire together: How prescribed burning can benefit ground-nesting birds
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Nov 18, 2025 |
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Clearing the air: The truth about smoldering duff
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Oct 13, 2025 |
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Build like a beaver: Evaluation of stream restoration success based on plant traits
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Sep 09, 2025 |
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Prickly questions: What is fire's place in the Sonoran desert scrub community?
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Sep 01, 2025 |
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A panoramic picture of fires in ponderosa pine ecosystems
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Aug 11, 2025 |
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Big data on a little chip: New eDNA tools save time and money on invasive species detection and monitoring
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Jul 18, 2025 |
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Preparing for wildfire: Meeting communities where they're at
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Jun 17, 2025 |
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Survive and thrive: Identifying factors that enhance the growth and survival of tree seedlings planted after wildfire
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Apr 29, 2025 |
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Roosts and woodrats: Forest restoration can provide both nesting habitat and food for spotted owls in the Sierra Nevada
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Feb 25, 2025 |
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Untrammeling the wilderness: Restoring natural conditions through the return of human‑ignited fire
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Jan 07, 2025 |
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Growing consensus: Diverse stakeholders collaborate on easy-to-use guide for restoring riparian forests
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Dec 03, 2024 |
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When more blackberries is a bad thing: Invasive plant management support
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Oct 22, 2024 |
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Twenty years of science and management with LANDFIRE
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Sep 24, 2024 |
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Trees dying, dangers rising: Major tree mortality events rapidly increase forest fuels and snag hazards
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Sep 17, 2024 |
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Fall fires bring many microbes and surprise guests: Fall prescribed burns can build healthy ecosystems on sagebrush rangeland
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Aug 27, 2024 |
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StockSmart tool: Big data for big landscape grazing decisionmaking
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Aug 20, 2024 |
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The story in the understory: Mechanical treatments stimulate expansion of native understory plants in dry conifer forests
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Aug 13, 2024 |
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Anything to conserve moisture: Seedlings planted after wildfire benefit from shade, north aspects, and depressions
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Aug 06, 2024 |
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Funnel focal analysis: Exploring risks in the wildland urban interface
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Jul 30, 2024 |
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Promoting healthy forests: Limber pine in the Rockies is vulnerable to long-term decline
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Jul 09, 2024 |
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"Sack lunch" for seedlings: Fall fertilization of rangeland shrub seedlings to improve outplanting success
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Jul 02, 2024 |
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The alchemy of addition: Cutting and burning together most effective in reducing fuels and improving forest resilience
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Jun 25, 2024 |
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Burning questions answered: New review examines 30 years of fuel treatment effects on wildfire severity
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Jun 21, 2024 |
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Fire Weather Alert System Mobile App (FWAS): Realtime data could save lives on the fireline
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Jun 11, 2024 |
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Burning insights: How wildfires reshape the soil microbiome and impact soil health and forest regeneration
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Jun 04, 2024 |
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The devil Is in the details: Understanding community acceptance of fuels treatments
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Jun 04, 2024 |
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GRAIP-lite: Taking the easy street to road erosion estimates
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May 28, 2024 |
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Misconceptions around strategy: Managing fire response and public communication to support risk-based decisionmaking
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May 07, 2024 |
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Prescribed fire and wilderness: Barriers and opportunities in a time of change
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Mar 19, 2024 |
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Don't judge a lamprey by its teeth: Genetic analysis shows need to reconsider species classification, possibly influencing conservation decisions
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Mar 12, 2024 |