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The goal of this study was to develop a decisionmaking tool or modei to be used during timber sale preparation for identifying and evaluating feasible slash treatment alternatives for any set of sale conditions. The goal included four specific objectives: (1) a technique to determine feasible fuel treatment methods and a means to estimate their effectiveness and cost under various sale conditions; (2) a means to examine the influence of various management decisions on fuel treatment costs and effectiveness--a sensitivity analysis; (3) a scheme to quantify fuel treatment objectives; (4) a fuel prediction model--an easily used computer program, based on available crown weight relationships, to predict fuel loading by size classes prior to harvesting.
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- Abies grandis
- Abies lasiocarpa
- computer programs
- coniferous forests
- conifers
- distribution
- fire hazard reduction
- fire intensity
- fuel loading
- fuel management
- fuel models
- Idaho
- land management
- Larix occidentalis
- Montana
- national forests
- Picea engelmannii
- Pinus contorta
- Pinus monticola
- Pinus ponderosa
- Pseudotsuga menziesii
- rate of spread
- reforestation
- site treatments
- size classes
- slash
- statistical analysis
- thinning
- Thuja plicata
- Tsuga heterophylla
- wildfires
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