New Mexico Highlands University

The Wages of Abolition: Liberation Beyond Labor in Edward Rushton’s West-Indian Eclogues and the Pamphlet War surrounding James Ramsay’s Essay on the Treatment and Conversion of African Slaves

This essay brings together British abolitionist poetry and pro-slavery essays from the 1780s, when British abolition was not yet a foregone conclusion. The examined texts center enslaved people’s rejection of wage labor schemes. When read together, a theory of self-emancipatory p...

Right on time: evaluating accuracy and timing of burn-severity assessments to support post-fire management

Abstract Effective wildfire impact assessment and post-fire management rely on burn-severity maps that accurately characterize fire effects on vegetation and soils. These maps inform time-sensitive activities such as post-fire flood and debris-flow modeling, risk mitigation for h...

Effects of small-scale forest treatments on reducing wildfire burn severity

Background Intensive fire suppression and climate change have escalated wildfire intensity in fire-adapted forests. Although the consequences of fire suppression policies are well documented, fuel reduction treatment effectiveness – particularly across varying treatment sizes – r...