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Science basis for changing forest structure to modify wildfire behavior and severity
Graham, McCaffrey, Jain
Fire, other disturbances, physical setting, weather, and climate shape the structure and function of forests throughout the Western United States. More than 80 years of fire research have shown that physical setting, fuels, and weather combine to…
Year: 2004
Type: Document

Fuels, fire severity, and invasive plants within the Cerro Grande Fire, Los Alamos, New Mexico
Omi, Martinson, Kalkhan, Chong, Hunter, Stohlgren
The severity of the 2000 fire season has increased public awareness of a widespread fuels problem in western U.S. forests. Federal land management agencies have responded with plans to greatly expand programs to mitigate hazardous fuel conditions.…
Year: 2004
Type: Document

Applying landscape principles to fire hazard reduction
Loehle
Fire spreads in a specifically spatial manner, which suggests the applicability of percolation models to the risk reduction problem. It is shown that under fairly general conditions a threshold exists below which a landscape becomes essentially…
Year: 2004
Type: Document

Fire Effects Planning Framework: helping to identify the benefits and risks of fire
The goal of this project, co-funded by JFSP and NFP, is to help managers determine (quantify and map) where and under what conditions fire may create benefits or pose threats to identified ecological conditions or management targets. To facilitate…
Year: 2004
Type: Document

Impact of slash pile size and burning on ponderosa pine forest soil physical characteristics
Seymour, Tecle
Slash-pile burns associated with restoration thinning treatments may change soil characteristics resulting in broad implications for ecosystem functions, processes, and management. This study explores the impacts of size and burning of slash piles…
Year: 2004
Type: Document

Fuels planning: science synthesis and integration; economic uses fact sheet 1: mastication treatments and costs
Rummer
Mastication, or mulching, is a mechanical fuel treatment that changes the structure and size of fuels in the stand. This fact sheet describes the kinds of equipment available, where mastication should be used, and treatment factors affecting cost.
Year: 2004
Type: Document

Fire and fire surrogate treatments for ecosystem restoration: treatment costs and utilization economics for A1 West
Larson
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Year: 2004
Type: Document

Science basis for changing forest structure to modify wildfire behavior and severity
Fire, other disturbances, physical setting, weather, and climate shape the structure and function of forests throughout the Western United States. More than 80 years of fire research have shown that physical setting, fuels, and weather combine to…
Year: 2004
Type: Document

Climatic change, wildfire, and conservation
McKenzie, Gedalof, Peterson, Mote
Climatic variability is a dominant factor affecting large wildfires in the western United States, an observation supported by palaeoecological data on charcoal in lake sediments and reconstructions from fire-scarred trees. Although current fire…
Year: 2004
Type: Document

Fuels planning: science synthesis and integration; environmental consequences fact sheet 7: fire and weeds
Sutherland
Weed infestations cause an economic loss of $13 billion per year even though $9.5 billion per year is spent on weed control measures. In addition to these economic costs, weeds are replacing native species, altering native plant and animal…
Year: 2004
Type: Document