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Assessment of Community Wildfire Protection Plans in Arizona and the Western U.S.
Colavito
One mechanism with which communities-at-risk from wildfire have addressed planning and adaptation to wildfire are Community Wildfire Protection Plans (CWPPs), which were created as part of the Healthy Forest Restoration Act in 2003. CWPPs are…
Year: 2019
Type: Media

U.S. Geological Survey sage-grouse and sagebrush ecosystem research annual report for 2019
The sagebrush (Artemisia spp.) ecosystem extends across a large portion of the Western United States. Affected by multiple stressors, including interactions among fire, exotic plant invasions, and human land uses, this ecosystem has experienced…
Year: 2019
Type: Document

IFTDSS Landscape Burn Probability Model
Noble, Anderson
A demonstration of the Landscape Burn Probability in IFTDSS.
Year: 2019
Type: Media

IFTDSS - Development Status and Using Map Values
Ernstrom, Hyde
Current and future development of IFTDSS and a demonstration of the Map Values feature that was added in Version 3.2.0.2.
Year: 2019
Type: Media

A double whammy: climate change and stand-replacing wildfires
In the Intermountain region of the Western United States, most forested landscapes are fire prone and adapted to a semiarid climate. With the severity of wildfires increasing as a result of excessive fuels, land managers are concerned about forest…
Year: 2019
Type: Document

FireCLIME Vulnerability Assessment tool v3.1
Friggens
FireCLIME (Fire-Climate Landscape Interactions in Montane Ecosystems) Vulnerability Assessment v3.1 is a macro-enabled Excel file (xlsm). A user guide is also available below.
Year: 2019
Type: Tool

We're not doing enough prescribed fire in the western United States to mitigate wildfire risk
Kolden
Prescribed fire is one of the most widely advocated management practices for reducing wildfire hazard and has a long and rich tradition rooted in indigenous and local ecological knowledge. The scientific literature has repeatedly reported that…
Year: 2019
Type: Document

FBAT data: surface and ground fuels, raw and processed
This data publication contains the raw and processed surface and ground fuels data for the plots in which pre- and post-fire fuels, and fire behavior data were collected by the Fire Behavior Assessment Team (FBAT) on a subset of wildland fires in…
Year: 2019
Type: Data

Do fuel treatments reduce wildfire suppression costs and property damages? Analysis of suppression costs and property damages in U.S. National Forests
Loomis, Sanchez, González-Cabán, Rideout, Reich
This paper reports the results of two hypotheses tests regarding whether fuel reduction treatments using prescribed burning and mechanical methods reduces wildfire suppression costs and property damages. To test these two hypotheses data was…
Year: 2019
Type: Document

A stochastic programming model with endogenous uncertainty for incentivizing fuel reduction treatment under uncertain landowner behavior
Bhuiyan, Moseley, Medal, Rashidi, Grala
Reducing the potential damage caused by a wildfire is a problem of significant importance to land and fire managers. Fuel reduction treatment is a well-known method of reducing the risk of fire occurrence and spread on landscapes. However, officials…
Year: 2019
Type: Document