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The 2003 National Seasonal Assessment Workshop: a proactive approach to preseason fire danger assessment
Garfin, Wordell, Brown, Ochoa, Morehouse
Millions of acres are burned each year by wildland fires, in spite of much effort going into fuel treatments, prevention, and fire suppression. An array of effective decision-support products, tools, and processes is needed to anticipate regional…
Year: 2003
Type: Document

Assessing the ecological implications of FireSmart forest management
Espinoza, Cui, Martell
FireSmart forest management strategies often include landscape level fuel treatments that fragment the landscape to reduce the risk of extreme fire events. We describe a decision support system that is being developed for incorporating FireSmart…
Year: 2003
Type: Document

Western fire ignition and area time series cross-sectional models
Prestemon, Butry, Pye, Abt, Holmes, Mercer
Wildfires in the west respond strongly to weather and climatic factors, but it is not clear how models of wildfire ignitions and wildfire area differ or what factors significantly affect them. We present panel cross-sectional models of wildfire…
Year: 2003
Type: Document

A new set of standard fuel models for use with Rothermel's spread model
Scott, Burgan
With the publication of his surface fire spread model in 1972, Rothermel provided a listing of 11 preliminary fuel models. A fuel model is a complete set of fuel inputs needed to use the Rothermel fire spread model (load and surface-are-to-volume…
Year: 2003
Type: Document

The susceptibility of forested stands to extreme fire behavior; an analysis in the northwest United States
Fieldhouse, Dickinson
The extent of extreme fire behavior in the last several fire seasons has highlighted the susceptibility of current forested vegetation stands to crown fire, bringing it to the forefront of national attention. Though much attention has been given…
Year: 2003
Type: Document

The market economics of mechanical fuel treatments
Abt, Prestemon, Ince, Fight, Barbour, Rummer
Current and proposed legislation and policy envisions mechanically treating wildlands to reduce wildfire risks. The economic impacts of introducing these materials into local forest product markets are not well understood. We present modeling…
Year: 2003
Type: Document

Landscape level fire modeling
McHugh, Finney, Stephen
Fire managers are often asked to evaluate, display or justify the effectiveness of planned treatments in reducing or positively affecting fire growth, fire behavior and intensity post-treatment. In most cases prescribed fire, mechanical treatments…
Year: 2003
Type: Document

Modeling the effects of fuel treatments for the Southern Utah Fuel Management Demonstration Project
Long, Ryan, Stratton, Mathews, Scott, Mislivets, Miller, Hood
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Year: 2003
Type: Document

A collaborative scientific framework for restoration of fire-adapted ecosystems of the Jemez Mountains, New Mexico [abstract]
McCarthy, Wood
The Jemez Mountains Project is a part of the North American Fire Learning Network (FLN), a collaborative venture of the USDA Forest Service, the Department of the Interior and The Nature Conservancy. Project partners include Bandelier National…
Year: 2003
Type: Document

Fire and Fuels Extension: model description
Beukema, Reinhardt, Greenough, Robinson, Kurz
The Fire and Fuels Extension to the Forest Vegetation Simulator is a model that simulates fuel dynamics and potential fire behavior over time, in the context of stand development and management. Existing models are used to represent forest stand…
Year: 2003
Type: Document