The Southwest Fire Science Consortium is partnering with FRAMES to help fire managers access important fire science information related to the Southwest's top ten fire management issues.
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Executive Summary: On August 8, 2000, President Clinton asked Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt and Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman to prepare a report that recommends how best to respond to this year*s severe fires, reduce the impacts of these…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Wade
The Mt. Trumbull Resource Conservation Area (RCA) is located 15 miles north of the Grand Canyon, with the major vegetation type being ponderosa pine. Due to fire exclusion over the last 120 years, the ponderosa pine stands have reached levels of…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Leach
This plan identifies treatment area boundaries using fuels, topography, and natural and man made barriers. The best method for treatment is based on economical effectiveness and potential social/political views toward fuel treatments on public lands…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Andrews, Queen
Fire modeling and information system technology play an important supporting role in fuel and fire management. Modeling is used to examine alternative fuel treatment options, project potential ecosystem changes, and assess risk to life and property…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
McIver, Weatherspoon, Edminster
Compared to presettlement times, many ponderosa pine forest of the United States are now more dense and have greater quantities of fuels. Widespread treatments are needed in these forests to restore ecological integrity and to reduce the risk of…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Watson, Borrie, Burchfield, Wakimoto
There is currently limited understanding of the social acceptability of the various means of treatment of forest or grassland fuels. Either through the application of prescribed fire or mechanical means, the social and economic implications of fuel…
Year: 2001
Type: Project
Springer, Waltz, Fulé, Moore, Covington
The decision whether to seed with native species following restoration treatments should be based on existing vegetation, species present in or absent from the soil seed bank, past management history, microclimate conditions and soils. We installed…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Kolb, Fulé, Wagner, Covington
Ecological restoration treatments using thinning and prescribed burning have been proposed to reverse the decline of oldgrowth ponderosa pines in the Southwest. However, long-term data on the effectiveness of such treatments are lacking. In 1993-…
Year: 2001
Type: Document
Scott, Keane
This proposal is in response to Task 3 of the February 23, 1999 Request for Proposals: develop, evaluate, or compare methods or approaches to incorporate wildland fuels management information into landscape scale land use and planning processes. In…
Year: 2001
Type: Project
Finney
Patterns of disconnected fuel treatment patches that overlap in the heading fire spread direction are theoretically effective in changing forward fire spread rate. The analysis presented here sought to find the unit shape and pattern for a given…
Year: 2001
Type: Document