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Type: Report
Author(s): Gregory J. Winter; Christine A. Vogt; Jeremy S. Fried
Publication Date: 2002

Fuel reduction has the best chance of success if managers understand the factors that influence public acceptance of fuel management sufficiently to provide effective responses to the questions, objections, and concerns of wildland-urban interface (WUI) homeowners. This study's overall objective is to provide land managers with a standardized decision support tool that enables them to assess public acceptance and understanding of fuel treatments in areas where they are needed. The three fuel treatment approaches considered were prescribed burning, mechanical treatment, and defensible space ordinances. Specific objectives include: 1. Identify the issues related to fuel management that are salient to residents of fire-prone wildland-urban interface areas. 2. Develop and test a model of the causal factors and processes by which individuals evaluate the acceptability of a fuel management policy or plan. 3. Develop a standardized survey method for use by land managers to increase public participation in decision making, monitor public acceptance of fuel management approaches, and develop effective communication and outreach strategies. Included in Appendix B of this document is the following document: Demographic and geographic approaches to predicting public acceptance of fuel management at the wildland-urban interface: summary results from a survey of wildland-urban interface residents in California, Florida; and Michigan. This Appendix provides tabular results of the surveys given.

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Citation: Winter, Greg; Vogt, Christine; Fried, Jeremy. 2002. Demographic and geographic approaches to predicting public acceptance of fuel management at the wildland-urban interface, phase II project report, final survey data report. September 2001. Prepared for University of California, Berkeley, College of Natural Resources and USDA Forest Service North Central Research Station, Chicago, IL. 73 p.

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Keywords:
  • aesthetics
  • catastrophic fires
  • coniferous forests
  • ecosystem dynamics
  • education
  • fire damage (property)
  • fire frequency
  • fire hazard
  • fire hazard reduction
  • fire injuries (humans)
  • fire management planning
  • fire protection
  • fire suppression
  • firebreak
  • flammability
  • Florida
  • forest management
  • fuel management
  • geography
  • GIS - geographic information system
  • health factors
  • human caused fires
  • hunting
  • JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program
  • Lake States
  • land management
  • landscape ecology
  • lightning caused fires
  • logging
  • Michigan
  • mowing
  • national forests
  • natural resource legislation
  • pine forests
  • pine hardwood forests
  • private lands
  • public information
  • public opinion
  • recreation
  • regulations
  • sampling
  • SFP - Southern Fire Portal
  • site treatments
  • smoke effects
  • state forests
  • statistical analysis
  • trees
  • understory vegetation
  • wildfires
  • wildlife habitat management
Tall Timbers Record Number: 19135Location Status: In-fileAbstract Status: Okay, Fair use, Reproduced by permission
JFSP Project Number(s):
  • 99-1-2-10
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FRAMES Record Number: 353

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