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Pimont, Parsons, Rigolot, deColigny, Dupuy, Dreyfus, Linn
Scientists and managers critically need ways to assess how fuel treatments alter fire behavior, yet few tools currently exist for this purpose. We present a spatially-explicit-fuel-modeling system, FuelManager, which models fuels, vegetation growth…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Drury, Rauscher, Banwell, Huang, Lavezzo
The Interagency Fuels Treatment Decision Support System (IFTDSS) is a web-based software and data integration framework that organizes fire and fuels software applications into a single online application. IFTDSS is designed to make fuels treatment…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Wei, Rideout, Kirsch, Kernohan
Hazard fuel reduction and wildland fire preparedness programs are two important budgeting components in the US National Park Service strategic wildland fire planning. During the planning process, each national park independently conducts analysis to…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Schoennagel, Morgan, Balch, Dennison, Harvey, Hutto, Krawchuk, Moritz, Rasker, Whitlock
Record blazes swept across parts of the US in 2015, burning more than 10 million acres. In recent decades, state and federal policymakers, tribes, and others are confronting longer fire seasons (Jolly et al. 2015), more large fires (Dennison et al.…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Schoennagel, Morgan, Balch, Dennison, Harvey, Hutto, Krawchuk, Moritz, Rasker, Whitlock
Record blazes swept across parts of the US in 2015, burning more than 10 million acres. The four biggest fire seasons since 1960 have all occurred in the last 10 years, leading to fears of a ‘new normal’ for wildfire. Fire fighters and forest…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Santín, Doerr
Soils are among the most valuable non-renewable resources on the Earth. They support natural vegetation and human agro-ecosystems, represent the largest terrestrial organic carbon stock, and act as stores and filters for water. Mankind has impacted…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Buchanan, Menakis, Finney, Romero, Human
he Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009, which established the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration (CFLR) Program, asks that CFLR projects “Facilitate the reduction of wildfire management costs and risks, including through…
Year: 2016
Type: Media
Parsons, Wells, Pimont, Jolly, Linn, Mell
The STANDFIRE project was funded by the JFSP to develop a prototype modeling system that could link widely available fuels data from FFE-FVS to physics-based fire models, providing an alternative approach for calculating fire behavior at stand…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Barnett, Parks, Miller, Naughton
In the United States, fuel reduction treatments are a standard land management tool to restore the structure and composition of forests that have been degraded by past management. Although treatments can have multiple purposes, their principal…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Parsons, Dupuy, Jolly, Linn, Mell, Pimont, Rigolot, deColigny
Accurate characterization of stand scale fuel treatment effectiveness is necessary before such treatments can be robustly considered at landscape scales. Fire behavior predictions are key components in evaluating fuel treatments, which may include a…
Year: 2016
Type: Project