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The Southwest Fire Science Consortium is partnering with FRAMES to help fire managers access important fire science information related to the Southwest's top ten fire management issues.

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Science basis for changing forest structure to modify wildfire behavior and severity
Graham, McCaffrey, Jain
Fire, other disturbances, physical setting, weather, and climate shape the structure and function of forests throughout the Western United States. More than 80 years of fire research have shown that physical setting, fuels, and weather combine to…
Year: 2004
Type: Document

Safety's new horizon [interview]
Williams
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Year: 2004
Type: Document

Plant community variability in ponderosa pine forest has implications for reference conditions
Gildar, Fulé, Covington
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Year: 2004
Type: Document

Tending fire: coping with America's wildland fires
Pyne
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Year: 2004
Type: Document

Sustainability of timber supply considering the risk of wildfire
Armstrong
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Year: 2004
Type: Document

The interaction of fire, fuels, and climate across Rocky Mountain forests
Schoennagel, Veblen, Romme
Understanding the relative influence of fuels and climate on wildfires across the Rocky Mountains is necessary to predict how fires may respond to a changing climate and to define effective fuel management approaches to controlling wildfire in this…
Year: 2004
Type: Document

Effects of wildfire on black bear demographics in central Arizona
Cunningham, Ballard
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Year: 2004
Type: Document

Applying geographic information systems and remote sensing to forest fire monitoring, mapping, and modeling in Canada
Englefield, Lee, Fraser, Landry, Hall, Lynham, Cihlar, Li, Jin, Ahern
The Fire Monitoring, Mapping and Modelling System (Fire M3) is an initiative of the Canada Centre for Remote Sensing (CCRS) and the Canadian Forest Service (CFS), both agencies of Natural Resources Canada. The goals of Fire M3 are to use low-…
Year: 2004
Type: Document

Integrating remote sensing, GIS, and spatial statistics: a case study of invasive plants and wildfire on the Cerro Grande Fire, Los Alamos, New Mexico
Kalkhan, Martinson, Omi, Stohlgren, Chong, Hunter
Investigating spatial relationships among fuels, wildfire severity, and post-fire invasion by exotic plant species through linkage of multiphase sampling design and multiscale nested sampling field plots, pre- and post-fire, can be accomplished by…
Year: 2004
Type: Document

A Wildfire Threat Rating System for the Birkenhead and Gates landscape units, British Columbia
Blackwell, Gray, Steele, Needoba, Green, MacKenzie
In 2000 the Squamish Forest District began a pilot project to study the effects of prescribed fire on forest succession, fuel dynamics, regeneration, wildlife habitat, and timber supply within two landscape units encompassing 103,000 ha north of…
Year: 2004
Type: Document