The Southwest Fire Science Consortium is partnering with FRAMES to help fire managers access important fire science information related to the Southwest's top ten fire management issues.
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Executive Summary: On August 8, 2000, President Clinton asked Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt and Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman to prepare a report that recommends how best to respond to this year*s severe fires, reduce the impacts of these…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Andrews, Queen
Fire modeling and information system technology play an important supporting role in fuel and fire management. Modeling is used to examine alternative fuel treatment options, project potential ecosystem changes, and assess risk to life and property…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Scott, Keane
This proposal is in response to Task 3 of the February 23, 1999 Request for Proposals: develop, evaluate, or compare methods or approaches to incorporate wildland fuels management information into landscape scale land use and planning processes. In…
Year: 2001
Type: Project
Dennis, Miles
A consequence of past fire management practices in U. S. Forests is the excessive accumulation of fuel. In order to avoid severe and catastrophic fires, resource managers employ a number of treatments to diminish fuel loads. Alternative treatments…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Finney
Patterns of disconnected fuel treatment patches that overlap in the heading fire spread direction are theoretically effective in changing forward fire spread rate. The analysis presented here sought to find the unit shape and pattern for a given…
Year: 2001
Type: Document