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Accepting uncertainty, assessing risk: decision quality in managing wildfire, forest resource values, and new technology

Borchers
The risks, uncertainties, and social conflicts surrounding uncharacteristic wildfire and forest resource values have defied conventional approaches to planning and decision-making. Paradoxically, the adoption of technological innovations such as…
Type: Document
Year: 2005

Bandelier National Monument fire management plan 2005

Rodgers, Kemp, Koontz
Bandelier National Monument and the surrounding Jemez Mountains have a long history of wildland fire. The restoration of fire, as a natural disturbance process, to its historic role at Bandelier is one of the Monument's highest management priorities.
Type: Document
Year: 2005

California references

Williams
From the introduction to the document ... '... In summary there are eleven major reasons for American Indian ecosystem burning, which are drived from well over 300 studies: Hunting ...Crop management ... Improve growth and yields ... Fireproof areas…
Type: Document
Year: 2005

Central and South America

Williams
From the introduction to the document ... '... In summary there are eleven major reasons for American Indian ecosystem burning, which are drived from well over 300 studies: Hunting ...Crop management ... Improve growth and yields ... Fireproof areas…
Type: Document
Year: 2005

Cultural practices for restoring and maintaining ecosystem function

Van Lear, Wurtz
Forest restoration, in a general sense, suggests a transition from a degraded state to some 'natural' condition, presumably devoid of human influence (Stanturf, this volume). Yet, because nearly all temperate and boreal forests have been influenced…
Type: Document
Year: 2005

Culturally scarred trees in the Bob Marshall Wilderness, Montana, USA- interpreting Native American historical forest use in a wilderness area

Ostlund, Keane, Arno, Andersson
Wilderness areas are primarily set aside to protect natural ecosystems and processes. However, most protected areas have a long history of native peoples' land use predating their protection. The general paucity of evidence in the form of historical…
Type: Document
Year: 2005

Demographic and geographic approaches to predicting public acceptance of fuel management at the wildland-urban interface - Final Report to the Joint Fire Science Program

Fried, Winter, Vogt
A conceptual model of how people living at the wildland-urban interface evaluate acceptability of three fuel management approaches (prescribed fire, mechanical treatment, and enforcement of defensible space ordinances) was developed from focus group…
Type: Document
Year: 2005

Determining reference ecosystem conditions for disturbed landscapes within the context of contemporary resource management issues

Goebel, Wyse, Corace
In this article, we present a framework to assess the potential influence of forest ecosystem restoration on the landscape of Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore, the core of which is an approach to determine the distribution of forest ecosystems…
Type: Document
Year: 2005

East Wildland Fire, Remote Sensing, Modeling, and Management Decision Support Systems (Eastfire)

Foster, Riebau
This conference will specifically address wildland fire in the Eastern US, a topic of cruicial interest to the USDA, Forest Service and Department of Interior fire managers. Although the conference will focus on the East, the scientific and…
Type: Project
Year: 2005

Fire as a galvanizing and fragmenting influence on communities: the case of the Rodeo-Chediski fire

Carroll, Cohn, Seesholtz, Higgins
Large wildfires that burn through the 'forest-residential intermix' are complex events with a variety of social impacts. This study looks at three northern Arizona community clusters directly affected by the 2002 Rodeo-Chediski fire. Our analysis…
Type: Document
Year: 2005