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Exploring the Interagency Fuel Treatment Decision Support System (IFTDSS)
Noble, Ernstrom
Part of the Science You Can Use Spring 2022 Webinar Series sponsored by the Rocky Mountain Research Station IFTDSS is becoming a go to tool for fuels planning across interagency partners. With its all access web-based approach, IFTDSS makes fuels…
Year: 2022
Type: Media

Development of activity recognition models for mechanical fuel treatments using consumer-grade GNSS-RF devices and lidar
Becker, Keefe
Mobile technologies are rapidly advancing the field of forest operations and providing opportunities to quantify management tasks in new ways through increased digitalization. For instance, devices equipped with global navigation satellite system…
Year: 2022
Type: Document

Confronting the wildfire crisis: a strategy for protecting communities and improving resilience in America’s forests
[from the text] Under this strategy, the Forest Service will work with partners to engineer a paradigm shift by focusing fuels and forest health treatments more strategically and at the scale of the problem, using the best available science as the…
Year: 2022
Type: Document

Engagement in local and collaborative wildfire risk mitigation planning across the western U.S.-Evaluating participation and diversity in Community Wildfire Protection Plans
Palsa, Bauer, Evers, Hamilton, Nielsen-Pincus
Since their introduction two decades ago, Community Wildfire Protection Plans (CWPPs) have become a common planning tool for improving community preparedness and risk mitigation in fire-prone regions, and for strengthening coordination among federal…
Year: 2022
Type: Document

Forest biomass policies and regulations in the United States of America
Page-Dumroese, Rodriguez-Franco, Archuleta, Taylor, Kidwell, High, Adam
Using woody biomass from public lands could attract private investments, increase carbon dioxide emission reductions from sustainably harvested low-grade wood to mitigate climate change, provide benefits for the environment, and support rural…
Year: 2022
Type: Document

Operational resilience in western US frequent-fire forests
North, Tompkins, Bernal, Collins, Stephens, York
With the increasing frequency and severity of altered disturbance regimes in dry, western U.S. forests, treatments promoting resilience have become a management objective but have been difficult to define or operationalize. Many reconstruction…
Year: 2022
Type: Document

Abundance of mites, but not of collembolans or nematodes, is reduced by restoration of a Pinus ponderosa forest with thinning, mastication, and prescribed fire
Gibson, Johnson, Laturno, Parmenter, Antoninka
Thinning, mastication, and prescribed fire are restoration treatments frequently employed in unnaturally dense second-growth Pinus ponderosa forests of the Western United States. Although a goal of these treatments is to restore ecosystem structure…
Year: 2022
Type: Document

Fire severity in reburns depends on vegetation type in Arizona and New Mexico, U.S.A.
Yocom, Jenness, Fulé, Thode
After more than a century of low fire activity in the western United States, wildfires are now becoming more common. Reburns, which are areas burned in two or more fires, are also increasing. How fires interact over time is of interest ecologically…
Year: 2022
Type: Document

Effectiveness of fuel treatments at the landscape scale: state of understanding and key research gaps - Final Report to the Joint Fire Science Program
Jain, Abrahamson, Anderson, Hood, Hanberry, Kilkenny, Ott, Urza, Chambers, Battaglia, Varner, O'Brien
Maximizing the effectiveness of fuel treatments at the landscape scale is a key research and management need given the inability to treat all areas at risk from wildfire, and there is a growing body of scientific literature assessing this need. We…
Year: 2021
Type: Document

What We Know About Landscape Fuel Treatment Effectiveness
Hood, McKinney, Ott, Hanberry, Jain
Maximizing the effectiveness of fuel treatments at the landscape scale is a key research and management need given the inability to treat all areas at risk from wildfire, and there is a growing body of scientific literature assessing this need.…
Year: 2021
Type: Media