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Type: Conference Paper
Author(s): Tim Sexton
Publication Date: 2003

Prescribed fire has been recognized for years as an effective for tool managing wildlands. However, there are many resource managers who remain sceptical that fire is the appropriate tool for managing some ecosystems and especially some specific natural or cultural resources. Questions concerning burn seasonality, frequency, intensity, patch size, as well as prescription parameters such as live and dead moisture content, firing patterns, windspeed, temperature and others create conflict between advocates and opponents of fire use. Thousands of studies have been conducted to quantify the effects of fire but little has been done to comprehensively monitor fire effects and correlate these effects to the variables associated with burns. We describe a strategy that is reaching maturity after over a decade of development within the National Park Service. The Fire Ecology Assessment Tool (FEAT) provides a complete tool for collecting, analysing, displaying and archiving data and analysis of fire effects for prescribed and wildland fire.

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Citation: Sexton, T. 2003. Fire ecology assessment tool -- monitoring wildland fire and prescribed fire for adaptive management, Second International Wildland Fire Ecology and Fire Management Congress and Fifth Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology, 16-20 November 2003, Orlando, FL [program volume and electronic resource]. American Meteorological Society,Boston, MA. p. 108-109, http://ams.confex.com/ams/FI.

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Topics:
Fire Behavior    Fire Ecology    Fuels    Planning    Prescribed Fire    Weather
Regions:
Alaska    California    Eastern    Great Basin    Hawaii    Northern Rockies    Northwest    Rocky Mountain    Southern    Southwest    National
Keywords:
  • dead fuels
  • ecosystem dynamics
  • fire management
  • fuel management
  • fuel moisture
  • Idaho
  • JFSP - Joint Fire Science Program
  • live fuels
  • moisture
  • national parks
  • season of fire
  • temperature
  • wilderness fire management
  • wildfires
Tall Timbers Record Number: 16312Location Status: In-fileAbstract Status: Fair use, Okay, Reproduced by permission
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FRAMES Record Number: 41408

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