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The great western wildfires: predicting the future by looking at the past
Rothermel
From the text ... 'It should be clear to everyone concerned that weather conditions and the availability of fuel largely control the behavior of fires. Since projections of actual fire growth depend on weather forecasts, and the weather beyond three…
Year: 2000
Type: Document

Modeling and mapping wildfire potential in Mexico based on vegetation and drought conditions using remote sensing and GIS technology
Mora, Hernandez-Cardenas
An increasing severity in the occurrence of wildfires in Mexico has been recently associated with the activity of 'El Nino' Southern Oscillation (ENSO). A spatio-temporal analysis of fire potential indicated that indeed, catastrophic fires could…
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

Development of a seasonal fire severity forecast for the contiguous U.S. [abstract]
Fujioka, Burgan, Chase, Roads, Chen
The Forest Service has always relied on its regional fire managers to assess the potential severity of the forthcoming fire season, and the ability of the local organization to respond under the expected conditions. Among the factors considered were…
Year: 2000
Type: Document

Protecting the wildland-urban interface from wildfire—who is responsible? [abstract]
Hesseln, Rideout
The fire season of 2000 is one of the most severe on record, burning approximately seven million acres by the end of September—over 2.5 times the 10-year average of 2.6 million acres. Fires burning in the wildland-urban interface have resulted in…
Year: 2000
Type: Document

The effect of fire season on small mammal and arthropod biodiversity in shortgrass steppe [abstract]
Ford
I experimentally analyzed the effect of fire season on small mammal and arthropod biodiversity in shortgrass steppe. Arthropods and mammals play important roles in the functioning of shortgrass steppe, serving as decomposers, pollinators, herbivores…
Year: 2000
Type: Document

The effects of fire regime on legume reproduction in longleaf pine savannas: is a season selective?
Hiers, Wyatt, Mitchell
The biodiversity of fire-dependent ecosystems is increasingly threatened by habitat fragmentation and fire suppression. Reducing species loss requires that salient features of natural fire regimes be incorporated into managed regimes, Lightning-…
Year: 2000
Type: Document

The federal wildland 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

Long-range fire assessments: procedures, products, and applications
Zimmerman, Hilbruner, Werth, Sexton, Bartlette
The 1998 wildland fire season presented conditions favoring increased wildland fire numbers and rapid expansion of area affected. This situation posed complex issues to all wildland fire management agencies in terms of firefighting resource…
Year: 2000
Type: Document

Climate change and forest fires
Flannigan, Stocks, Wotton
This paper addresses the impacts of climate change on forest fires and describes how this, in turn, will impact on the forests of the United States. In addition to reviewing existing studies on climate change and forest fires we have used two…
Year: 2000
Type: Document