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Bagdon, Huang
Wildfire suppression expenditures sharply increased from $528.5 million in 1985 (in 2015 dollars) to $2.1 billion in 2015 while the size of area burned has more than tripled (from 2.8 to 10.1 million acres) during the same time period (National…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
A Community Wildfire Protection Plan (CWPP) is a plan developed by a community in an area at-risk from wildfire.
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Taylor, Sánchez Meador, Kim, Rollins, Will
In this article, we develop a simulation model of the benefits and costs of managing the ponderosa pine forest ecosystem in the southwestern United States. Using the model, we evaluate and compare the economic benefits and costs of ecological…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Evans, Auerbach, Miller, Wood, Nystrom, Loevner, Aragón, Piccarello, Krasilovsky
Hundreds of millions of dollars have been spent on planning, education, and fuel reduction treatments in the WUI, yet there is little information on the effectiveness of these efforts. To address this need, we conducted an assessment of the…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Thompson, Anderson
High up-front costs and uncertain return on investment make it difficult for land managers to economically justify large-scale fuel treatments, which remove trees and other vegetation to improve conditions for fire control, reduce the likelihood of…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Hodges, Luloff, Finley
For generations, the public was told that fire destroys forests and many of its associated values (e.g., timber, wildlife, recreation, aesthetics, ecosystem services). Recently, the science of fire prevention and fuel treatments has experienced…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Ex, Smith, Keyser
Canopy fire hazard evaluation is essential for prioritizing fuel treatments and for assessing potential risk to firefighters during suppression activities. Fire hazard is usually expressed as predicted potential fire behavior, which is sensitive to…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Omi
Fuel treatments have become an indispensable tool for managing fire in North American wildland ecosystems. Historical perspective and extant practices provide insights into current theory and areas of future emphasis. Managers have better…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Chung
Fuel treatments have been widely used as an effective fire management tool to mitigate catastrophic wildland fire risk in forested landscapes. Fire research efforts of the last two decades have significantly advanced fire behavior modeling and fuel…
Year: 2015
Type: Document
Vakili
Fuel hazard reduction treatments have been widely employed in dry forests of the western United States in recent decades in response to the increasing extent and severity of wildfires. In order to design and accurately assess the effects of these…
Year: 2015
Type: Document