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Texas Wildfire Risk Assessment Portal
Wildfire continues to threaten people and property across Texas. Rapid population growth into Wildland Urban Interface areas and increasing effects of long term drought and increased fuel loading conditions represent major concerns moving forward…
Year: 2017
Type: Website

Modeling fuel treatment costs on forest service lands in the western United States
Calkin, Gebert
Years of successful fire suppression have led to high fuel loads on the nation's forests, and steps are being taken by the nation's land management agencies to reduce these fuel loads. However, to achieve desired outcomes in a fiscally responsible…
Year: 2006
Type: Document

Fuelbreaks for wildland fire management: a moat or a drawbridge for ecosystem fire restoration?
Ingalsbee
Construction of fuelbreaks as a presuppression fuels treatment strategy in national forests has always been controversial (Omi 1996). Criticisms have been raised over the objectives, prescriptions, locations, methods, costs, impacts, and…
Year: 2005
Type: Document

Living with fire isn't so simple
Bosworth
From the text ... 'A policy of allowing all fires to burn would be just as flawed as the old policy of putting them all out. ...Our policy is to use fire where we can and suppress fire where we must.'
Year: 2004
Type: Document

Fire gels - breakthrough technology for structure protection in the WUI
Bartlett
Fire-blocking gel, a new weapon in the war on wildfires, is being hailed by firefighters, property owners, scientists and government officials as one of the most important developments in fire fighting history. This new technology enables…
Year: 2003
Type: Document

Wildfire policy in transition: where there's smoke, there's... mirrors
Hubbard
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Year: 2003
Type: Document

Behavior of the life-threatening Butte Fire: August 27-29, 1985 [reprinted from 1986]
Rothermel, Mutch
Year: 2003
Type: Document

Invasion of Oklahoma rangelands and forests by eastern redcedar and ashe juniper
Bidwell, Engle, Moseley, Masters
From the Introduction ... "A 1985 survey by the Soil Conservation Service indicated that eastern redcedar (Juniperus virginiana) and ashe juniper (I. ashei) had invaded almost 1.5 million acres in Oklahoma by 1950 and 3.5 million acres by 1985 (…
Year: 2002
Type: Document

Fighting the Pumpkin Fire--indirect attack and aerial ignition [including: Delayed aerial ignition devices and Critical habitat conserved]
Farnsworth
From the text ... 'Fire managers used indirect attack and aerial ignition to reduce the risk to firefighters and the damage to resources in a wilderness area.'
Year: 2001
Type: Document

The west is culling forests that fueled fires of the past
Jehl
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Year: 2001
Type: Document