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Unplanned wildfire in areas with slash piles
Evans, Wright
Each year, fuel treatments reduce the likelihood of uncharacteristically severe wildland fire in overstocked stands across millions of acres in the United States. Typically, these treatments target small-diameter trees for removal, producing large…
Year: 2017
Type: Document

Wildland fire spot ignition by sparks and firebrands
Fernandez-Pello
Wildland and Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) fires are an important problem in many areas of the world and may have major consequences in terms of safety, air quality, and damage to buildings, infrastructure, and the ecosystem. It is expected that…
Year: 2017
Type: Document

Spatiotemporal evaluation of fuel treatment and previous wildfire effects on suppression costs - Final Report to the Joint Fire Science Program
Naughton, Barnett
This project quantifies the effects of fuel treatments and previously burned areas on daily fire management costs, as well as summarizes recent encounter rates between fuel treatments and wildland fires across the conterminous United States. Using…
Year: 2017
Type: Document

Controlled burning on private land in New Mexico
Evans, Rodriguez, Krasilovsky
A century of fire exclusion has negatively impacted fire-adapted ecosystems across New Mexico. One significant impact is the increasing prevalence of uncharacteristically large, severe fires, which threaten lives, property, clean water, wildlife,…
Year: 2017
Type: Document

Adapt to more wildfire in western North American forests as climate changes
Schoennagel, Balch, Brenkert-Smith, Dennison, Harvey, Krawchuk, Mietkiewicz, Morgan, Moritz, Rasker, Turner, Whitlock
Wildfires across western North America have increased in number and size over the past three decades, and this trend will continue in response to further warming. As a consequence, the wildland–urban interface is projected to experience…
Year: 2017
Type: Document

Social science: fire and fuel management communication strategies (research brief)
Your agency needs to increase fuel treatments and prescribed fire, but how do you communicate this to the public in the best possible way? This paper by Dr. Eric Toman and colleagues sought to answer that question in four different states: Arizona,…
Year: 2017
Type: Document