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These proceedings summarize the results of a symposium designed to address current issues of agencies with wildland fire protection responsibility at the federal and state levels in the United States as well as agencies in the international…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Vaillant, Ager, Anderson, Miller
Fuel management planning can be a complex problem that is assisted by fire behavior modeling and geospatial analyses. Fuel management often is a particularly complicated process in which the benefits and potential impacts of fuel treatments need to…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Martinson, Omi
We employed meta-analysis and information theory to synthesize findings reported in the literature on the effects of fuel treatments on subsequent fire intensity and severity. Data were compiled from 19 publications that reported observed fire…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Keane, Morgan, Dillon, Sikkink, Karau, Drury, Holden
Accurate, consistent, and timely fire severity maps are needed in all phases of fire management including planning, managing, and rehabilitating wildfires. The problem is that fire severity maps are commonly developed from satellite imagery that is…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Vaillant, Ager, Anderson
Fire behavior modeling and geospatial analyses can provide tremendous insight for land managers as they grapple with the complex problems frequently encountered in wildfire risk assessments and fire and fuels management planning. Fuel management…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Peterson, Littell
Wildfire is one of the two most significant disturbance agents (the other being insects) in forest ecosystems of the Western United States, and in a warmer climate, will drive changes in forest composition, structure, and function (Dale et al. 2001…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Cawrse, Van Dyck, Crookston, Robinson, Beukema
The Forest Vegetation Simulator (FVS) and its associated Fire and Fuels Extension (FFE) have been used to provide information required by larger software systems like the Interagency Fuels Treatment-Decision Support System (IFT-DSS). Interacting…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Busby, Amacher, Haight
In this article, we consider wildfire risk management decisions using a dynamic stochastic model of homeowner interaction in a setting where spatial externalities arise. Our central objective is to apply observations from the social science…
Year: 2013
Type: Document
Cawrse, VanDyck
This is a proposal to improve performance of the Forest Vegetation Simulator related to processing speed and linkages to other software. These improvements will better meet the needs of landscape analyses for fire planning for the Interagency Fuels…
Year: 2013
Type: Project
Cochrane, Wimberly
The fire situation in the United States is well documented with a growing prevalence of larger and more intense fires that have increasingly severe consequences for affected ecosystems and human health and well being. Wildland fire managers have the…
Year: 2013
Type: Project