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Fuel model and forest type mapping for FARSITETM input
Bertolette, Spotskey
A methodology is outlined for mapping Fuel Model Indexes/Forest Types (FMI/FT), to provide input for the fire area simulator FARSITE. USGS Digital Orthophoto Quads, together with contour and stream themes from USGS topographic maps, were digitally…
Year: 2000
Type: Document

Twentieth century fire patterns in the Gila/Aldo Leopold Wilderness Complex New Mexico and the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness Area Idaho/Montana
Rollins, Swetnam, Morgan
We present results from ongoing research into 20th Century fire regimes in two large Rocky Mountain wilderness areas. Fire patterns are represented as digital fire atlases based on archival forest service data. We find that spatial and temporal fire…
Year: 2000
Type: Document

The Federal Wildland Fire Policy: opportunities for wilderness fire management
Zimmerman, Bunnell
The federal wildland Fire Management Policy and Program Review represents the latest stage in the evolution of wildland fire management. This policy directs changes that consolidate past fire management practices into a single direction to achieve…
Year: 2000
Type: Document

Twentieth-century fire patterns in the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness Area, Idaho/Montana, and the Gila/Aldo Leopold Wilderness Complex, New Mexico
Rollins, Swetnam, Morgan
Twentieth century fire patterns were analyzed for two large, disparate wilderness areas in the Rocky Mountains. Spatial and temporal patterns of fires were represented as GIS-based digital fire atlases compiled from archival Forest Service data. We…
Year: 2000
Type: Document

Management and research implications [Chapter 8]
Lyon, Smith
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Year: 2000
Type: Document

Forest fire plan kindles debate
MacNeil
From the text...'Forest fires burning in the western United States have aready scorched over 2.5 million hectares this summer. Now a federal proposal to prevent them by paying loggers to cut smaller trees is generating heat among ecologists, who say…
Year: 2000
Type: Document

Fire shelter safety advisory
From the text...'Fire shelter training has for years stressed the importance of deploying fire shelters where there is no direct flame contact. However, the results of recent tests by the Missoula Technology and Development Center, a part of the…
Year: 2000
Type: Document

Anticipating the spatial patterns of the Cerro Grande Fire at Los Alamos New Mexico: what could we have learned from another recent fire? [abstract]
Medler
Forest fires are not spatially uniform events. They result in a complicated mosaic of burned and unburned vegetation. To manage fuel loads and the associated fire hazard it is essential to improve our understanding of the spatial patterns of the…
Year: 2000
Type: Document

Ecological restoration of southwestern ponderosa pine ecosystems: a broad framework [abstract]
Allen, Falk, Hoffman, Klingel, Morgan, Savage, Schulke, Stacey, Suckling, Swetnam
This paper outlines a broad and flexible framework for ecological restoration of Southwestern ponderosa pine forests, supporting a diverse range of scientifically viable restoration approaches. Ponderosa pine forests in the region have been…
Year: 2000
Type: Document

No fuel like an old fuel
Pyne
From the text ... 'More biomass does not always mean a bigger fire when the spark strikes. There are plenty of reasons to control-burn and many ways to do it. But we are often told that burning is necessary simply to prevent conflagrations and that…
Year: 2000
Type: Document