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Fire severity was evaluated in eight recent wildfires with standardized methods in adjacent treated and untreated stands. Sampled sites occurred in a variety of conifer forests throughout the Western United States. Treatments included reduction of surface fuels and crown fuels, both in isolation and in combination. Synthesis of our results indicates that treatment effectiveness is related to differences in tree size (mean diameter) between treated and untreated stands (p<0.001), as well as estimated historic fire frequency (p<0.1). Our results suggest that fuel treatments will be most effective when they complement ecosystem restoration objectives, such as the removal of small trees from ecosystems that historically experienced frequent fire.
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- Arizona
- bibliographies
- Colorado
- coniferous forests
- crown fires
- diameter classes
- ecosystem dynamics
- fire case histories
- fire frequency
- fire hazard reduction
- fire intensity
- fire management
- fuel accumulation
- fuel management
- fuel types
- landscape ecology
- Mississippi
- Montana
- New Mexico
- pine forests
- Pinus elliottii
- Pinus ponderosa
- population density
- site treatments
- size classes
- surface fuels
- thinning
- Washington
- wildfires
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