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Fuel Treatment Leverage: Encounter Rates and Net Cost Impacts
Thompson, Riley, Loeffler, Haas
Research Objectives: 1) Generate efficient frontiers and explore tradeoffs across risk reduction, volume production, and cost minimization objectives. 2) Explore the impact of variable spatial extent and dispersed versus clustered treatment…
Year: 2017
Type: Media

Programmatic analysis of fuel treatments: from the landscape to the national level - Final Report to the Joint Fire Science Program
Rideout, Wei, Kirsch, Brooks, Kernohan, Magbual
The importance of cost effective fuel treatment programs has appeared consistently in federal directives (FLAME ACT, National Cohesive Strategy, U.S Department of Interior Office of Policy Analysis) as a priority. Implementing cost effective fuel…
Year: 2017
Type: Document

The Science of Budgeting Fire Programs - Integrating Fuels and Preparedness at National and Landscape Levels
Rideout
Doug Rideout discusses STARfire - a spatial planning and budgeting system integrating fuels, preparedness, and risk assessment guided by ROI. Scaleable from planning unit to regional to national levels.
Year: 2017
Type: Media

LANDFIRE - All Lands Data from Vegetation to Fuels: Planning, Engagement, and Feedback
Bastian
This webinar, led by LANDFIRE Business Lead Henry Bastian, will cover more than a decade old program (LANDFIRE) at producing and updating land cover data products across all 50 United States and insular areas. Although many have thought of LANDFIRE…
Year: 2017
Type: Media

Research and Development Wildland Fire and Fuels accomplishments and outcomes
Rollins, Rodriguez-Franco, Haan, Conard
The Research and Development (R&D) Wildland Fire and Fuels program at the Forest Service, an agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, continues to be an internationally renowned program for generating critical and essential data, knowledge…
Year: 2017
Type: Document

Adapt to more wildfire in western North American forests as climate changes
Schoennagel, Balch, Brenkert-Smith, Dennison, Harvey, Krawchuk, Mietkiewicz, Morgan, Moritz, Rasker, Turner, Whitlock
Wildfires across western North America have increased in number and size over the past three decades, and this trend will continue in response to further warming. As a consequence, the wildland–urban interface is projected to experience…
Year: 2017
Type: Document

Social science: fire and fuel management communication strategies (research brief)
Your agency needs to increase fuel treatments and prescribed fire, but how do you communicate this to the public in the best possible way? This paper by Dr. Eric Toman and colleagues sought to answer that question in four different states: Arizona,…
Year: 2017
Type: Document