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Wildfire exposure and fuel management on western US national forests
Ager, Day, McHugh, Short, Gilbertson-Day, Finney, Calkin
Substantial investments in fuel management activities on national forests in the western US are part of a national strategy to reduce human and ecological losses from catastrophic wildfire and create fire resilient landscapes. Prioritizing these…
Year: 2014
Type: Document

Effects of tree cutting and fire on understory vegetation in mixed conifer forests
Abella, Springer
From the Introduction ... 'Understanding influences of silvicultural, fuel reduction, and restoration treatments involving tree cutting and fire is fundamental to managing mixed conifer forests, coupled with knowledge of effects of wildfires that…
Year: 2014
Type: Document

Fuel treatment science plan
Zimmerman, Lasko, Kaufmann
Significant changes occurring in the wildland fire environment of the United States are generatinguncharacteristic shifts in the complexity, behavior, extent, and effects of wildfires. Increases in wildfire numbers, temporal and spatial scales, and…
Year: 2014
Type: Document

Smokey Bear and Prometheus fistfight in heaven: the past, present, and future of fire and climate - powerpoint
Littell
Presentation made at 2014 Spring Alaska Fire Science Workshop.
Year: 2014
Type: Document

Building trust, establishing credibility, and communicating fire issues with the public
With more people than ever living in the vicinity of the wildland-urban interface, communicating wildland fire management activities and building trust with the public is paramount for safety. Although the time and resources it takes to build and…
Year: 2014
Type: Document

Fire behavior in masticated fuels: a review
Kreye, Brewer, Morgan, Varner, Smith, Hoffman, Ottmar
Mastication is an increasingly common fuels treatment that redistributes 'ladder' fuels to the forest floor to reduce vertical fuel continuity, crown fire potential, and fireline intensity, but fuel models do not exist for predicting fire behavior…
Year: 2014
Type: Document

Final report of the interagency fuels treatment decision support system (IFTDSS) evaluation study - Final Report to the Joint Fire Science Program
Bennett, Brown, Doney, Gates, Miller, Palmquist, Place
The Joint Fire Sciences Program (JFSP) is a multi-federal agency group that brings together a diverse set of stakeholders that need to understand fire behavior with scientists who study fire behavior. The program's doctrine, training, and tool…
Year: 2014
Type: Document

Taming the software chaos: true to its promise, IFTDSS eases the burden of fuels treatment planning-and does a lot more besides
A key problem reported by the fuels treatment planning community is the difficulty and inefficiency of evaluating and then applying many planning tools and applications. Fuels specialists have struggled to find, load, and learn all the different…
Year: 2014
Type: Document

A brief introduction to the Interagency Fuels Treatment Decision Support System (IFTDSS)
Rauscher, Drury
The last decade saw a dramatic proliferation of software systems intended to help fire and fuels managers in the United States. Funding for these software systems came from a variety of sources without any central control or vision. A governance…
Year: 2014
Type: Document

Wildfire exposure and fuel management on western US national forests
Ager, Day, McHugh, Short, Gilbertson-Day, Finney, Calkin
Substantial investments in fuel management activities on national forests in the western US are part of a national strategy to reduce human and ecological losses from catastrophic wildfire and create fire resilient landscapes. Prioritizing these…
Year: 2014
Type: Document