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Modeling interactions between fire and atmosphere in discrete element fuel beds
Linn, Winterkamp, Colman, Edminster, Bailey
In this text we describe an initial attempt to incorporate discrete porous element fuel beds into the coupled atmosphere–wildfire behavior model HIGRAD/FIRETEC. First we develop conceptual models for use in translating measured tree data (in this…
Year: 2005
Type: Document

The effects of hazardous fuel reduction treatment on the amount of bark beetle-caused tree mortality in Sierra Nevada, USA
Fettig
The Healthy Forest Restoration Act (H. R. 1904) allows for increases in hazardous fuel reduction activities throughout much of the western USA. Our laboratory is currently conducting several studies to determine the short and long‐term implications…
Year: 2005
Type: Document

Nonindustrial private landowners, fires, and the wildland-urban interface
Amacher, Malik, Haight
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Year: 2005
Type: Document

Assessing risks to spotted owls from forest thinning in fire-adapted forests of the western United States
Lee, Irwin
Concern for viable spotted owl (Strix occidentalis) populations has played prominently in the management of western forests in the United States. Historically, much of the debate has focused on the impacts of commercial timber harvest. Increasingly…
Year: 2005
Type: Document

Application of hazard and risk analysis at the project level to assess ecologic impact
Sampson, Sampson
The application of hazard and risk analysis to specific project areas prone to uncharacteristic wildland fires is a useful way to estimate the effects of management alternatives (including no action). These project-level analyses need to be done in…
Year: 2005
Type: Document

Federal forest-fire policy in the United States
Stephens, Ruth
Forest-fire policy of U.S. federal agencies has evolved from the use of small patrols in newly created National Parks to diverse policy initiatives and institutional arrangements that affect millions of hectares of forests. Even with large…
Year: 2005
Type: Document

Conceptual model for comparative ecological risk assessment of wildfire effects on fish, with and without hazardous fuel treatment
O'Laughlin
Wildfire poses risks to fish and wildlife habitat, among other things. Management projects to reduce the severity of wildfire effects by implementing hazardous fuel reduction treatments also pose risks. How can land managers determine which risk is…
Year: 2005
Type: Document

Not getting burned: the importance of fire prevention in forest management
Amacher, Malik, Haight
We extend existing stand-level models of forest landowner behavior in the presence of fire risk to include the level and timing of fuel management activities. These activities reduce losses if a stand ignites. Based on simulations, we find the…
Year: 2005
Type: Document

Forest landowner decisions and the value of information under fire risk
Amacher, Malik, Haight
We estimate the value of three types of information about fire risk to a nonindustrial forest landowner: the relationship between fire arrival rates and stand age, the magnitude of fire arrival rates, and the efficacy of fuel reduction treatment.…
Year: 2005
Type: Document

Nonindustrial private landowners, fires, and the wildland-urban interface
Amacher, Malik, Haight
We estimate the value to a non-industrial forest landowner of information about the magnitude of fire arrival rates. A simulation based on a model from Amacher et al. [Amacher, G., Malik, A., Haight, R., in press. Not getting burned: the importance…
Year: 2005
Type: Document