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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
Kolden, Brown
Prescribed fire is generally considered a useful tool in ecosystem restoration and hazardous fuels reduction. There are many variables associated with the decision process and level of control managers can assert over prescribed burning (e.g., risk…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Wilmer, Aplet
Most scientists agree that fuel reduction is required to protect communities and restore fire-dependent ecosystems, but they disagree about exactly where and how much fuel treatment is needed. To better inform this debate, we evaluated the quality…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
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
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
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
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
Boucher
The Gila National Forest got involved in 2003 with wildland fire use in mid April. The Forest received good winter and early spring moisture associated with a mild El Nino Southern Oscillation. In previous years with this pattern the Gila was able…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Martinson, Chong, Hunter, Kalkhan, Omi, Stohlgren
Efforts to mitigate hazardous fuel conditions have expanded in response to the severe wildfire events of recent years. But scant information exists on the efficacy of fuel treatments for mitigating wildfire severity, much less the influence of fuel…
Year: 2003
Type: Document
Hunter, Omi, Martinson, Chong, Kalkhan, Stohlgren
Establishment and spread of invasive species following wildfires can pose threats to long-term native plant recovery. Disturbance severity and propagule pressure may influence the likelihood that invasives will establish in burned areas. In this…
Year: 2003
Type: Document