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Problem Statement: An logical application and documentation process is needed to prioritize, quantify and determine costs for fire prevention and fuels treatment areas and to predict or model the effectiveness of prevention program options in the reduction and cost savings of human-caused ignitions. Results Achieved: Wildland Fire Prevention, Fuels and Planning specialists have worked with scientists and consultants to develop RAMS (June 2000) or "Risk Assessment and Mitigation Strategies”. RAMS is public domain software and contains both prevention and fuels tracks. They can be completed concurrently or independently. It provides a narrative report, situation assessment, out-year workload budget analysis and projection of program effectiveness for human-caused ignitions. The prevention component of RAMS assists mitigation specialists in quantifying prevention polygons, selection of the most effective prevention treatments, determination of unit prevention program workload and budget options and predicts the results, displaying changes in the frequency of general fire causes. In NFMAS applications it also models the effects on Net Value Change (NVC). The fuels component of RAMS assists fuels specialists in quantifying fuels projects, determining project risks, selecting the method of treatment, developing fuels program project costs, prioritizing fuel treatment projects and developing an out-year workload analysis of a unit*s fuel treatment projects.
Cataloging Information
- computer programs
- fire management
- fuel management
- fuel models
- human caused fires
- ignition
- NFMAS - National Fire Management Analysis System
- wilderness fire management
- wildfires
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