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Optimisation of fuel reduction burning regimes for carbon, water and vegetation outcomes
Gharun, Possell, Bell, Adams
Fire plays a critical role in biodiversity, carbon balance, soil erosion, and nutrient and hydrological cycles. While empirical evidence shows that fuel reduction burning can reduce the incidence, severity and extent of unplanned fires in Australia…
Year: 2017
Type: Document

Unplanned wildfire in areas with slash piles
Evans, Wright
Each year, fuel treatments reduce the likelihood of uncharacteristically severe wildland fire in overstocked stands across millions of acres in the United States. Typically, these treatments target small-diameter trees for removal, producing large…
Year: 2017
Type: Document

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

How Might Different Wildfire Response Policies Affect the Landscape Over Time?
Riley
Can we save money on wildfire suppression by investing in fuel treatments and prescribed fire?
Year: 2017
Type: Media

Fuel treatment and previous fire effects on daily fire management costs
This publication contains tabular data used to evaluate the effects of fuel treatments and previously burned areas on daily wildland fire management costs. The data represent daily Forest Service fire management costs for a sample of 56 fires that…
Year: 2017
Type: Data

Wildland fire spot ignition by sparks and firebrands
Fernandez-Pello
Wildland and Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) fires are an important problem in many areas of the world and may have major consequences in terms of safety, air quality, and damage to buildings, infrastructure, and the ecosystem. It is expected that…
Year: 2017
Type: Document

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

Returning Fire to the Land-Celebrating Traditional Knowledge and Fire: Approaches for Management and Research
Lake
In this webinar, Frank Lake, Research Ecologist with the Pacific Southwest Research Station presented findings from the 2014 Crafting Solutions for Wildland and Prescribed Fires Across Tribal and Nontribal Jurisdictions workshop and the 2012…
Year: 2017
Type: Media

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

Effects of Fuel Treatments and Previous Fires on Subsequent Fire Management Costs
Barnett
This webinar highlights results from a study on the effects of fuel treatments and previously burned areas on subsequent fire management costs. Presenter Kevin Barnett and his colleagues, Helen Naughton, Sean Parks, and Carol Miller, built models…
Year: 2017
Type: Media