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Pimont, Parsons, Rigolot, deColigny, Dupuy, Dreyfus, Linn
Scientists and managers critically need ways to assess how fuel treatments alter fire behavior, yet few tools currently exist for this purpose. We present a spatially-explicit-fuel-modeling system, FuelManager, which models fuels, vegetation growth…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Parks, Miller, Holsinger, Baggett, Bird
Several aspects of wildland fire are moderated by site- and landscape-level vegetation changes caused by previous fire, thereby creating a dynamic where one fire exerts a regulatory control on subsequent fire. For example, wildland fire has been…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Drury, Rauscher, Banwell, Huang, Lavezzo
The Interagency Fuels Treatment Decision Support System (IFTDSS) is a web-based software and data integration framework that organizes fire and fuels software applications into a single online application. IFTDSS is designed to make fuels treatment…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Vakili, Hoffman, Keane, Tinkham, Dickinson
There is growing consensus that spatial variability in fuel loading at scales down to 0.5m may govern fire behaviour and effects. However, there remains a lack of understanding of how fuels vary through space in wildland settings. This study…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Overby, Hart
Microbial-mediated decomposition and nutrient mineralization are major drivers of forest productivity. As landscape-scale fuel reduction treatments are being implemented throughout the fire-prone western United States of America, it is important to…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Schoennagel, Morgan, Balch, Dennison, Harvey, Hutto, Krawchuk, Moritz, Rasker, Whitlock
Record blazes swept across parts of the US in 2015, burning more than 10 million acres. In recent decades, state and federal policymakers, tribes, and others are confronting longer fire seasons (Jolly et al. 2015), more large fires (Dennison et al.…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Schoennagel, Morgan, Balch, Dennison, Harvey, Hutto, Krawchuk, Moritz, Rasker, Whitlock
Record blazes swept across parts of the US in 2015, burning more than 10 million acres. The four biggest fire seasons since 1960 have all occurred in the last 10 years, leading to fears of a ‘new normal’ for wildfire. Fire fighters and forest…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Vakili, Hoffman, Keane, Dickinson, Rocca
The goals of this project were to 1) Quantify the spatial variability of surfacecfuels in dry ponderosa forests of the Front Range of the southern Rocky Mountains; 2) Compare variability in treated and untreated stands
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Santín, Doerr
Soils are among the most valuable non-renewable resources on the Earth. They support natural vegetation and human agro-ecosystems, represent the largest terrestrial organic carbon stock, and act as stores and filters for water. Mankind has impacted…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Buchanan, Menakis, Finney, Romero, Human
he Omnibus Public Land Management Act of 2009, which established the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration (CFLR) Program, asks that CFLR projects “Facilitate the reduction of wildfire management costs and risks, including through…
Year: 2016
Type: Media