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Pimont, Parsons, Rigolot, deColigny, Dupuy, Dreyfus, Linn
Scientists and managers critically need ways to assess how fuel treatments alter fire behavior, yet few tools currently exist for this purpose. We present a spatially-explicit-fuel-modeling system, FuelManager, which models fuels, vegetation growth…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Parks, Miller, Holsinger, Baggett, Bird
Several aspects of wildland fire are moderated by site- and landscape-level vegetation changes caused by previous fire, thereby creating a dynamic where one fire exerts a regulatory control on subsequent fire. For example, wildland fire has been…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Overby, Hart
Microbial-mediated decomposition and nutrient mineralization are major drivers of forest productivity. As landscape-scale fuel reduction treatments are being implemented throughout the fire-prone western United States of America, it is important to…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Hurteau, Liang, Martin, North, Koch, Hungate
Changing climate and a legacy of fire-exclusion have increased the probability of high-severity wildfire, leading to an increased risk of forest carbon loss in ponderosa pine forests in the southwestern USA. Efforts to reduce high-severity fire risk…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Drury, Rauscher, Banwell, Huang, Lavezzo
The Interagency Fuels Treatment Decision Support System (IFTDSS) is a web-based software and data integration framework that organizes fire and fuels software applications into a single online application. IFTDSS is designed to make fuels treatment…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Bruegger, Varelas, Howery, Torell, Stephenson, Bailey
Managing the risk of wildfires is a growing concern in the western United States. Targeted grazing, or managing livestock grazing to achieve specific vegetation goals, is one possible tool to treat fuels, but few studies have evaluated its efficacy…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Vakili, Hoffman, Keane, Tinkham, Dickinson
There is growing consensus that spatial variability in fuel loading at scales down to 0.5m may govern fire behaviour and effects. However, there remains a lack of understanding of how fuels vary through space in wildland settings. This study…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Fuentes-Ramirez, Veldman, Holzapfel, Moloney
Novel fire regimes are an important cause and consequence of global environmental change that involve interactions among biotic, climatic, and human components of ecosystems. Plant flammability is key to these interactions, yet few studies directly…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Thompson, Freeborn, Rieck, Calkin, Gilbertson-Day, Cochrane, Hand
We present a case study of the Las Conchas Fire (2011) to explore the role of previously burned areas (wildfires and prescribed fires) on suppression effectiveness and avoided exposure. Methodological innovations include characterisation of the…
Year: 2016
Type: Document
Wei, Rideout, Kirsch, Kernohan
Hazard fuel reduction and wildland fire preparedness programs are two important budgeting components in the US National Park Service strategic wildland fire planning. During the planning process, each national park independently conducts analysis to…
Year: 2016
Type: Document