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Science basis for changing forest structure to modify wildfire behavior and severity
Graham, McCaffrey, Jain
Fire, other disturbances, physical setting, weather, and climate shape the structure and function of forests throughout the Western United States. More than 80 years of fire research have shown that physical setting, fuels, and weather combine to…
Year: 2004
Type: Document

Healthy Forests initiative and its effect on appeals
Neznek
From the text...'On December 3, 2003, President Bush signed into law the Healthy Forest Restoration Act, legislation designed to expedite hazardous fuel reduction projects and improve forest health conditions in the nation's forests. Several…
Year: 2004
Type: Document

Landscape fire simulation and fuel treatment optimization [Chapter 9]
Finney
Fuel teatment effects on the growth and behavior of large wildland fires depend on the spatial arrangements of individual treatment units. Evidence of this is found in burn patterns of wildland fires. During planning stages, fire simulation is most…
Year: 2004
Type: Document

The interaction of fire, fuels, and climate across Rocky Mountain forests
Schoennagel, Veblen, Romme
Understanding the relative influence of fuels and climate on wildfires across the Rocky Mountains is necessary to predict how fires may respond to a changing climate and to define effective fuel management approaches to controlling wildfire in this…
Year: 2004
Type: Document

The International Crown Fire Modeling Experiment fuel treatment trials [abstract]
Alexander, Lanoville
Several fuel treatment demonstration trials or case studies were carried out as part of the International Crown Fire Modelling Experiment (ICFME), Northwest Territories: 1) demonstrating the value of fully leafed-out trembling aspen (Populus…
Year: 2004
Type: Document

Using forest management techniques to alter forest fuels and reduce wildfire size: an exploratory analysis
Hirsch, Kafka, Todd
During the next few decades, a considerable portion of the productive boreal forest in Canada will be harvested and there is an excellent opportunity to use forest management activities (e.g., harvesting, regeneration, stand tending) to alter the…
Year: 2004
Type: Document

The Cerro Grande Fire bombshell [abstract]
Valerio
On 4 May 2000, the Bandelier National Monument initiated a prescribed fire south and west of the town of Los Alamos, New Mexico, and Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) to reduce accumulated forest fuels near Cerro Grande Peak. On 5 May, the fire…
Year: 2004
Type: Document

Fuels, fire severity, and invasive plants within the Cerro Grande Fire, Los Alamos, New Mexico
Omi, Martinson, Kalkhan, Chong, Hunter, Stohlgren
The severity of the 2000 fire season has increased public awareness of a widespread fuels problem in western U.S. forests. Federal land management agencies have responded with plans to greatly expand programs to mitigate hazardous fuel conditions.…
Year: 2004
Type: Document

Relating historic fire regimes to 20th Century fire potential may augment ecological justifications for expanded fuel treatment programs
Martinson, Omi
Federal land management agencies in the U.S. have responded to recent severe wildfire seasons with plans to greatly expand fuel treatment programs. These plans are often accompanied by ecological justifications to assuage environmental objections to…
Year: 2004
Type: Document

Initial plant responses to fuel treatments in ponderosa pine forests of northeastern Oregon and western Montana [abstract]
Youngblood, Fiedler, Metlen, McIver
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Year: 2004
Type: Document