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Gebow, Lambert
The Greater Huachuca Mountains Fire Management Group is developing a fire management plan for 500,000 acres in southeast Arizona. Partner land managers include Arizona State Parks, Arizona State Lands, Audubon Research Ranch, Coronado National…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Linn, Winterkamp, Colman, Edminster, Bailey
In this text we describe an initial attempt to incorporate discrete porous element fuel beds into the coupled atmosphere–wildfire behavior model HIGRAD/FIRETEC. First we develop conceptual models for use in translating measured tree data (in this…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Fettig
The Healthy Forest Restoration Act (H. R. 1904) allows for increases in hazardous fuel reduction activities throughout much of the western USA. Our laboratory is currently conducting several studies to determine the short and long‐term implications…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Shindler, Gordon
Fire and fuel management has become an increasingly prominent-and often controversial-issue on federal, state, and private lands across the United States. This is especially true at the wildland-urban interface where private property joins public…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Amacher, Malik, Haight
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Year: 2005
Type: Document
Finney, McHugh, Grenfell
Performance of fuel treatments in modifying behavior and effects of the largest wildfires has rarely been evaluated, because the necessary data on fire movement, treatment characteristics, and fire severity were not obtainable together. Here we…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
O'Laughlin
Laws and policies require federal land and resource management agencies, and regulatory agencies charged with conserving imperiled species, to assess risks associated with proposed actions and to manage wildland fire risks and habitat for species-at…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Williams
From the text ... 'The rate of fuel accumulation remains far higher than the rate of fuel reduction. ...Our objectives for secure wildlife habitat, clean air, secluded homesites, and other social values often overlook the disturbance regimes that…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Strom
The 2002 Rodeo-Chediski fire was the largest wildfire in Arizona history at 189,000 ha (468,000 acres), and exhibited some of the most extreme fire behavior ever seen in the Southwest. Pre-fire fuel reduction treatments of thinning, timber…
Year: 2005
Type: Document
Lowe
This Working Paper is one of a series that describes the planning and implementation of restoration treatments in southwestern ponderosa pine forests. In this paper the treatment type is based on the Stand Treatment Impacts on Forest Health (STIFH)…
Year: 2005
Type: Document