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Hill, Janik, Belak, Cotton, Dominicci, Johnson, Jones, Joy, Vargas
From the text ... 'Our work has shown that a single focal point is critical for efforts -- such as reducing severe wildland fires and the vegetation that fuels them -- that involve many federal agencies as well as state and local governments, the…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Bundschuh
This paper analyzes the fuel loading and potential for a catastrophic fire in a 65-acre woodland plot adjacent to the developed area in the Chisos Basin of Big Bend National Park. Several fuel treatment alternatives are explored which would reduce…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Fulé, Covington, Smith, Springer, Heinlein, Huisinga, Moore
Three treatments designed to initiate the process of restoring the surface fire regime and open forest structure of a southwestern ponderosa pine forest were compared on the Kaibab National Forest along the Grand Canyon's South Rim. The treatments…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Schapiro
The San Dimas Technology and Development Center (SDTDC) investigated the use of air curtain destructors (ACDs) as an efficient, environmentally friendly, and technically viable means of disposing of slash, wood, and other burnable waste materials.…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Hardy, Burgan, Ohlen, Saveland
To provide 'first draft' basic spatial data layers, descriptive statistics, and documentation of the components listed above to enable specific risk analyses by subject matter experts, in National fuels treatment program planning, and for RPA…
Year: 2002
Type: Project
Fulé, Covington
We propose to calibrate the landscape fire behavior model Farsite to accurately simulate multi-century fire regimes using long-term fire history and forest structure data, then apply the reliable model to evaluation of alternative future fuel…
Year: 2002
Type: Project
Brown
GOALS: Deepen the scope of the Symposium as it addresses the relation of weather and climate to the four principle purposes of the Joint Fire Science Plan: a) fuels inventory and mapping, b) evaluation of fuels treatments, c) scheduling fuels…
Year: 2002
Type: Project
Winter, Vogt, Fried
Forest fuels reduction has the best chance of success if managers understand the factors that influence public acceptance of fuel management. This article reports an analysis of focus group interviews with wildland-urban interface residents at sites…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Pollet, Omi
Fire exclusion policies have affected stand structure and wildfire hazard in north American ponderosa pine forests. Wildfires are becoming more severe in stands where trees are densely stocked with shade-tolerant understory trees. Although forest…
Year: 2002
Type: Document
Ottmar, Wright
Small-log utilization or thinning operations followed by a fuel treatment such as prescribed fire can be used to change the composition and structure of fuelbeds, thereby mitigating deleterious fire effects and reducing the potential for…
Year: 2002
Type: Document