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The overlooked benefits of wildfire
Hanson, DellaSala, Bond
From the text ... 'There is an urgent need for scientists to report on the myriad ecosystem benefits of wildfires, including high-severity fires, and to effectively document the impacts of fuel treatments on wildlife, especially rare species, so…
Year: 2013
Type: Document

The social costs of homeowner decisions in fire-prone communities: information, insurance, and amenities
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

Mega-fires, tipping points and ecosystem services: managing forests and woodlands in an uncertain future
Adams
Global evidence posits that we are on the cusp of fire-driven 'tipping points' in some of the world's most important woody biomes including savannah woodlands, temperate forests, and boreal forests, with consequences of major changes in species…
Year: 2013
Type: Document

Using structure locations as a basis for mapping the wildland urban interface
Bar-Massada, Stewart, Hammer, Mockrin, Radeloff
The wildland urban interface (WUI) delineates the areas where wildland fire hazard most directly impacts human communities and threatens lives and property, and where houses exert the strongest influence on the natural environment. Housing data are…
Year: 2013
Type: Document

Wildland fire management: are actively managed forests more resilient than passively managed forests?
O'Laughlin
Large areas of federal lands in the western states are currently at high risk of severe wildfire and have many insect and disease problems, indicating a significant decline in forest health and resilience. Although research studies have not been…
Year: 2013
Type: Document

Interactions among the mountain pine beetle, fires, and fuels
Jenkins, Runyon, Fettig, Page, Bentz
Bark beetle outbreaks and wildfires are principal drivers of change in western North American forests, and both have increased in severity and extent in recent years. These two agents of disturbance interact in complex ways to shape forest structure…
Year: 2013
Type: Document

Proceedings of the fourth international symposium on fire economics, planning, and policy: climate change and wildfires
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

ArcFuels user guide and tutorial: for use with ArcGIS 9
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

Fuel treatments and fire severity: a meta-analysis
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

Wildfire and fuel treatment effects on forest carbon dynamics in the western United States
Restaino, Peterson
Sequestration of carbon (C) in forests has the potential to mitigate the effects of climate change by offsetting future emissions of greenhouse gases. However, in dry temperate forests, wildfire is a natural disturbance agent with the potential to…
Year: 2013
Type: Document