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Kennedy, Johnson
Fuel reduction treatments are implemented in the forest surrounding the wildland-urban interface (WUI) to provide defensible space and safe opportunity for the protection of homes during a wildfire. The 2011 Wallow Fire in Arizona USA burned through…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
Bramwell
Since the 1950s, the housing developments in the West that historian Lincoln Bramwell calls 'wilderburbs' have offered residents both the pleasures of living in nature and the creature comforts of the suburbs. Remote from cities but still within…
Year: 2014
Type: Document
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
Laverty, Williams
From Web Document, Executive Summary... ' Premise This strategy is based on the premise that sustainable resources are predicated on healthy, resilient ecosystems. In fire-adapted ecosystems, some measure of fire use - at appropriate intensity,…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Executive Summary: On August 8, 2000, President Clinton asked Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt and Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman to prepare a report that recommends how best to respond to this year*s severe fires, reduce the impacts of these…
Year: 2000
Type: Document
Gorte
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Year: 2000
Type: Document