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Type: Journal Article
Publication Date: 2014
The relative variation in predicted fireline intensity and the wind speed thresholds for the onset of crowning and active crown fire spread in a lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta Dougl. ex Loud.) stand subjected to a commercial thinning operation were examined. This involved seven distinct scenarios, each with different assumptions regarding fine dead fuel moisture contents and fire behavior models. This case study illustrates that widely varying results can be expected, depending on how the environmental inputs are handled and which fire behavior characteristic is analyzed.
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Citation: Cruz, Miguel G.; Alexander, Martin E.; Dam, Jelmer E. 2014. Using modeled surface and crown fire behavior characteristics to evaluate fuel treatment effectiveness: a caution. Forest Science 60(5):1000-1004.
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- active crown fire spread
- Alberta
- Canada
- crown fires
- dead fuels
- fine fuels
- fire intensity
- fire management
- fireline intensity
- fuel loading
- fuel moisture
- litter
- lodgepole pine
- onset of crowning
- overstory
- pine forests
- Pinus contorta
- ROS - rate of spread
- size classes
- surface fires
- surface fuels
- treatment effectiveness
- wildfires
- wind
Tall Timbers Record Number: 30055 • Location Status: In-file • Call Number: Journals - F • Abstract Status: Fair use, Okay, Reproduced by permission
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- 09-S-03-1
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FRAMES Record Number: 18063
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