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Valuing fire planning alternatives in forest restoration: using derived demand to integrate economics with ecological restoration
Rideout, Ziesler, Kernohan
Assessing the value of fire planning alternatives is challenging because fire affects a wide array of ecosystem, market, and social values. Wildland fire management is increasingly used to address forest restoration while pragmatic approaches to…
Year: 2014
Type: Document

Offline maps for wildland fire and natural resource management: custom GPS enabled maps on a mobile device
Godwin
Improvements in smartphone and tablet device hardware and software have made it relatively easy for wildland fire and natural resource professionals to use digital maps in the field. Digital map uses include a variety of resource management tasks:…
Year: 2014
Type: Document

Biotic and abiotic effects of human settlements in the wildland-urban interface
Bar-Massada, Radeloff, Stewart
The wildland-urban interface (WUI) is the area in which human settlements adjoin or intermix with ecosystems. Although research on the WUI has been focused on wildfire risk to settlements, we argue here that there is a need to quantify the extent of…
Year: 2014
Type: Document