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Name: 2nd Fire Behavior and Fuels Conference: Fire Behavior Fundamentals and Applications
Description: The 2nd Fire Behavior and Fuels Conference will be held from March 26-30, 2007 in Destin, Florida. It will focus on the fire environment - the 'fire environment' consists of fire weather, fire behavior, fire danger rating, predictive services, fuels,...
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Name: 2nd International Wildland Fire Ecology and Fire Management Congress
Description: This conference was held in conjunction with the Fifth Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology, November 16-20, 2003 in Orlando, Florida. Land management agencies and organizations and private landholders are increasingly faced with the complex...
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Name: 3rd International Fire Ecology and Fire Management Congress
Description: This conference was held November 13-17, 2006, in San Diego, California. It focused on the science and technology that are the basis for the management of wildland fire. The plenary session addressed the context and consequences of changing fire...
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Name: A 7600-year Vegetation and Fire History of Mt. Constitution, Orcas Island, Washington
Description: Pollen and charcoal from three small hollows were used to reconstruct 7600 years of vegetation and fire history on the Mt. Constitution plateau with a unique combination of temporal depth and spatial resolution. These records resolve stand-level...
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Name: A Comparison of Historical Fire Occurrence in Riparian and Upslope Forests in the Blue Mountains and Southern Cascades of Oregon
Description: The fire history study reconstructed the historical occurrence of fire within riparian forests in three different national forests in Oregon. Two study areas were located in mostly dry, low-severity fire regime forests in the Blue Mountains, and the...
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Name: A National Study of the Consequences of Fire and Fire Surrogate Treatments
Description: Objectives of the project are as follows: 1. Quantify the initial effects (first five years) of fire and fire surrogate treatments on a number of specific core response variables within the general groupings of (a) vegetation, (b) fuel and fire...
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Name: Applied Wildland Fire Research in Support of Project Level Hazardous Fuels Planning - Economics and Utilization
Description: The Economics and Utilization Team is clarifying the economic requirements of NEPA analysis and developing a summary of the existing scientific information on costs and revenues associated with hazardous fuels treatments. It isl also providing tools,...
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Name: Applied Wildland Fire Research in Support of Project Level Hazardous Fuels Planning - Environmental Consequences
Description: The mission of the Environmental Consequences team is to provide fuel treatment planners with the means to estimate the environmental consequences of proposed fuel treatment activities in the dry, interior forests of the western U.S. on: 1) air, 2)...
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Name: Applied Wildland Fire Research in Support of Project Level Hazardous Fuels Planning - Social Science
Description: The Social Science Team is synthesizing research that answers five key questions that might be helpful when planning or implementing fuels treatment projects: 1) what information and tools are available to help land managers and communities...
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Name: Applied Wildland Fire Research in Support of Project Level Hazardous Fuels Planning - Wildland Fire Behavior and Forest Structure
Description: The goal of the Forest Structure and Fire Hazard team is to increase and improve the understanding of available research which can aid in making informed, defensible decisions on managing forest structure and disclosing the treatment effects on fire...
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