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Progress towards and barriers to implementation of a risk framework for US federal wildland fire policy and decision making
Calkin, Finney, Ager, Thompson, Gebert
In this paper we review progress towards the implementation of a risk management framework for US federal wildland fire policy and operations. We first describe new developments in wildfire simulation technology that catalyzed the development of…
Year: 2011
Type: Document

Inducing private wildfire risk mitigation: experimental investigation of measures on adjacent public lands
Prante, Little, Jones, McKee, Berrens
Increasing private wildfire risk mitigation is an important part of the larger forest restoration policy challenge. Data from an economic experiment are used to evaluate the effectiveness of providing fuel reductions on public land adjacent to…
Year: 2011
Type: Document

Predicting post-fire hillslope erosion in forest lands of the western United States
Miller, MacDonald, Robichaud, Elliot
Many forests and their associated water resources are at increasing risk from large and severe wildfires due to high fuel accumulations and climate change. Extensive fuel treatments are being proposed, but it is not clear where such treatments…
Year: 2011
Type: Document

Integrated national-scale assessment of wildfire risk to human and ecological values
Thompson, Calkin, Finney, Ager, Gilbertson-Day
The spatial, temporal, and social dimensions of wildfire risk are challenging U.S. federal land management agencies to meet societal needs while maintaining the health of the lands they manage. In this paper we present a quantitative, geospatial…
Year: 2011
Type: Document

Restoration relevance of recent National Fire Plan treatments in forests of the western United States
Schoennagel, Nelson
The US National Fire Plan (NFP) is among the largest forest-restoration initiatives worldwide, removing wildland fuels on about 11 million hectares and costing over $6 billion. We evaluated the extent to which areas treated under the NFP from 2004…
Year: 2011
Type: Document

Use of fire behaviour models to support silvicultural and fuel management decision making in industrial pine plantations
Cruz, Alexander
Fire behaviour associated with the stand structure of a particular pine plantation is the result of multiple interactions between climate and weather conditions, physical characteristics of the fuel complex, the micrometeorological environment (i.e…
Year: 2011
Type: Document

Economic and social impacts of wildfires and invasive plants in American deserts: lessons from the Great Basin
Brunson, Tanaka
Research on the impacts of wildfire and invasive plants in rangelands has focused on biophysical rather than human dimensions of these environmental processes. We offer a synthetic perspective on economic and social aspects of wildfire and invasive…
Year: 2011
Type: Document

Use of fire behaviour models to support silvicultural and fuel management decision making in industrial pine plantations (conference abstract)
Cruz, Alexander
Fire behaviour associated with the stand structure of a particular pine plantation is the result of multiple interactions between climate and weather conditions, physical characteristics of the fuel complex, the micrometeorological environment (i.e…
Year: 2011
Type: Document

Proceedings of the second conference on the human dimensions of wildland fire
This proceedings contains articles, posters, and abstracts of presentations from the second Human Dimensions of Wildland Fire Conference held 27-29 April 2010 in San Antonio, Texas. The conference covered the social issues at the root of wildland…
Year: 2011
Type: Document

How fuel treatments saved homes from the 2011 Wallow fire
Bostwick, Menakis, Sexton
This is a fuel treatment effectiveness assessment report from Region 3 about the success of fuel treatments in protecting several communities from the recent Wallow fire in Arizona and New Mexico. The report narrative and graphics point to the…
Year: 2011
Type: Document