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Previous fires moderate burn severity of subsequent wildland fires in two large western US wilderness areas
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

Fuel treatment science plan
Zimmerman, Lasko, Kaufmann
Significant changes occurring in the wildland fire environment of the United States are generatinguncharacteristic shifts in the complexity, behavior, extent, and effects of wildfires. Increases in wildfire numbers, temporal and spatial scales, and…
Year: 2014
Type: Document

Managing naturally ignited wildland fire to meet fuel reduction and restoration goals in frequent-fire forests
Sensibaugh, Huffman
Fire is a key process that has played a central role in structuring and regulating the function of forest ecosystems over millennia. There is increasing interest in using fire, particularly naturally ignited wildland fires (Figure 1), to provide a…
Year: 2014
Type: Document

Smokey Bear and Prometheus fistfight in heaven: the past, present, and future of fire and climate - powerpoint
Littell
Presentation made at 2014 Spring Alaska Fire Science Workshop.
Year: 2014
Type: Document

Fuel treatment prescriptions alter spatial patterns of fire severity around the wildland-urban interface during the Wallow Fire, Arizona, USA
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

Fire behavior in masticated fuels: a review
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

Taming the software chaos: true to its promise, IFTDSS eases the burden of fuels treatment planning-and does a lot more besides
A key problem reported by the fuels treatment planning community is the difficulty and inefficiency of evaluating and then applying many planning tools and applications. Fuels specialists have struggled to find, load, and learn all the different…
Year: 2014
Type: Document

Fuel reduction practices and their effects on soil quality
Busse, Hubbert, Moghaddas
Soils sustain our terrestrial ecosystems, help fuel plant growth, and govern key ecosystem services such as the storage and provision of clean water, degradation of toxic compounds, and regulation of atmospheric gases. Preserving the integrity of…
Year: 2014
Type: Document

Improved canopy fuel estimation procedures for conifer forests in the interior West - Final Report to the Joint Fire Science Program
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

ArcFuels: an ArcMap toolbar for fuel treatment planning and wildfire risk assessment
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