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Wells
From the text ... 'The Joint Fire Science Program, the National Wildfire Coordinating Group Fuels Management Committee, and Sonoma Technology, Inc. are unveiling the prototype of a new planning environment that will help fuels specialists negotiate…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Beverly, Herd, Conner
Strategic modification of forest vegetation has become increasingly popular as one of the few preemptive activities that land managers can undertake to reduce the likelihood that an area will be burned by a wildfire. Directed use of prescribed fire…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Rollins
LANDFIRE is a 5-year, multipartner project producing consistent and comprehensive maps and data describing vegetation, wildland fuel, fire regimes and ecological departure from historical conditions across the United States. It is a shared project…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Littell, McKenzie, Peterson, Westerling
The purpose of this paper is to quantify climatic controls on the area burned by fire in different vegetation types in the western United States. We demonstrate that wildfire area burned (WFAB) in the American West was controlled by climate during…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
That risk from wildfire continues to grow across the United States is not a new problem. Managing forest fuels in the real world-such as thinning and burning prescriptively-to reduce fuel loads have been used effectively to reduce the risk of severe…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Varner, Keyes
Fire behavior and fire effects models are arguably among the most important tools in fire and fuels management. Given the power, accessibility, and utility of these models, fuels planners and scientists commonly use them to compare potential fire…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Gill, Stephens
At their worst, fires at the rural-urban or wildland-urban interface cause tragic loss of human lives and homes, but mitigating these fire effects through management elicits many social and scientific challenges. This paper addresses four…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Johnson, Peterson, Raymond
The Guide to Fuel Treatments (Johnson and others 2007) analyzes potential fuel treatments and the potential effects of those treatments for dry forest lands in the Western United States. The guide examines low- to mid-elevation dry forest stands…
Year: 2009
Type: Document
Ottmar, Wright, Prichard
The Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team (FERA) of the Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, is an interdisciplinary team of scientists that conduct primary research on wildland fire and provide decision support for fire…
Year: 2009
Type: Document