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Sikkink, Jain, Reardon, Heinsch, Keane, Butler, Baggett
Mastication is a silvicultural technique that grinds, shreds, or chops trees or shrubs into pieces and redistributes the biomass onto the forest floor to form a layer of woody debris. Unlike other fuel treatments that remove this biomass, masticated…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Starns
Prior to European settlement, the processes of fire and grazing interacted across the North American Great Plains to create a unique disturbance regime known as pyric herbivory. Large herbivores preferentially grazed in recently burned patches of…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Gharun, Possell, Bell, Adams
Fire plays a critical role in biodiversity, carbon balance, soil erosion, and nutrient and hydrological cycles. While empirical evidence shows that fuel reduction burning can reduce the incidence, severity and extent of unplanned fires in Australia…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Evans, Wright
Each year, fuel treatments reduce the likelihood of uncharacteristically severe wildland fire in overstocked stands across millions of acres in the United States. Typically, these treatments target small-diameter trees for removal, producing large…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Forest fuel treatments are used by managers for ecological restoration and reducing fire hazard. Due to past management decisions and long-term fire exclusion, forests are more denseand are susceptible to severe wildfires. Fuel treatments aim to…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Thompson, Riley, Loeffler, Haas
Research Objectives: 1) Generate efficient frontiers and explore tradeoffs across risk reduction, volume production, and cost minimization objectives. 2) Explore the impact of variable spatial extent and dispersed versus clustered treatment…
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Riley
Can we save money on wildfire suppression by investing in fuel treatments and prescribed fire?
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Barnett, Naughton, Parks, Miller
Cohesive Strategy goals: 1) Safe and effective response - Right place and time for suppression resources 2) Using wildland fire where appropriate - Feedbacks to future fire size, severity, and occurrence - Leveraging treated areas to support managed…
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Visualization of heterogeneous forest structures following treatment in the southern Rocky Mountains
Tinkham, Dickinson, Hoffman, Battaglia, Ex, UnderhillManipulation of forest spatial patterns has become a common objective in restoration prescriptions throughout the central and southern Rocky Mountain dry-mixed conifer forest systems. Pre-Euro-American settlement forest reconstructions indicate that…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
This publication contains tabular data used to evaluate the effects of fuel treatments and previously burned areas on daily wildland fire management costs. The data represent daily Forest Service fire management costs for a sample of 56 fires that…
Year: 2017
Type: Data