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Redmond, Golden, Cobb, Barger
Large tracts of land across the western United States have been managed over the last century in an effort to increase forage production, reduce the risk of wildland fires, and/or restore ecosystem structure and function. Yet documentation of this…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Tarancón, Fulé, Shive, Sieg, Sánchez Meador, Strom
Post-fire predictions of forest recovery under future climate change and management actions are necessary for forest managers to make decisions about treatments. We applied the Climate-Forest Vegetation Simulator (Climate-FVS), a new version of a…
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
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
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
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
Ottmar, Prichard, Swedin, Eagle
Consume is a decision-making tool designed to assist resource managers in planning for wildland fire events (e.g., prescribed fires and wildfires). Consume predicts fuel consumption, pollutant emissions, and heat release based on fuel loadings, fuel…
Year: 2014
Type: Tool