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Toman, Shindler, McCaffrey, Bennett
Wildland fire affects both public and private resources throughout the United States. A century of fire suppression has contributed to changing ecological conditions and accumulated fuel loads. Managers have used a variety of approaches to address…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Parks, Miller, Nelson, Holden
Wildland fire is an important natural process in many ecosystems. However, fire exclusion has reduced frequency of fire and area burned in many dry forest types, which may affect vegetation structure and composition, and potential fire behavior. In…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Littell
Presentation made at 2014 Spring Alaska Fire Science Workshop.
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Kennedy, Johnson
Fuel reduction treatments are implemented in the forest surrounding the wildland-urban interface (WUI) to provide defensible space and safe opportunity for the protection of homes during a wildfire. The 2011 Wallow Fire in Arizona USA burned through…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
With more people than ever living in the vicinity of the wildland-urban interface, communicating wildland fire management activities and building trust with the public is paramount for safety. Although the time and resources it takes to build and…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Kreye, Brewer, Morgan, Varner, Smith, Hoffman, Ottmar
Mastication is an increasingly common fuels treatment that redistributes 'ladder' fuels to the forest floor to reduce vertical fuel continuity, crown fire potential, and fireline intensity, but fuel models do not exist for predicting fire behavior…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Smith, Keyser, Rebain
This study investigated the transportability of crown biomass allometries, the vertical distribution of fuel in crowns and the influence of these factors on canopy fire hazard evaluation using the Fire and Fuels Extension to the Forest Vegetation…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Vaillant, Ager
Fire behavior modeling and geospatial analysis can provide tremendous insight to land managers in defining both the benefits and potential impacts of fuel treatments in the context of land management goals and public expectations. ArcFuels is a…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Steinberg
The Firewise Communities program of the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) is a key element of the holistic fire adapted communities strategy to involve all stakeholders in the use of valuable mitigation tools to reduce risk from wildfire.
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Leschak
A fire adapted community could be defined as a knowledgeable and engaged community in which the awareness and actions of residents regarding infrastructure, buildings, landscaping, and the surrounding ecosystem lessens the need for extensive…
Year: 2014
Type: Document