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Recorded Webinars
Research Briefs
- Connected Science - How Effective Are Landscape Scale Fuel Treatments?
- Lick Creek: Lessons learned after 20+ years of fuel treatments in Ponderosa pine
- What makes a resilient landscape? Climate, fire, and forests in the Northern Rockies
- Can prescribed fire do the work we hired it to do?
- Climatic Controls on Post-fire Ponderosa Pine and Douglas-fir Regeneration and Growth
- Collaborative fuels reduction and restoration - Experiences from the Southwestern Crown of the Continent
- Fire, fuels, and streams: the effects and effectiveness of riparian treatments
- A comprehensive guide to fuel management practices for dry mixed conifer forests in the northwestern United States: mechanical, chemical, and biological fuel treatment methods
- A comprehensive guide to fuel management practices for dry mixed conifer forests in the northwestern United States: inventory and model-based economic analysis of mechanical fuel treatments
- A comprehensive guide to fuel management practices for dry mixed conifer forests in the northwestern United States: prescribed fire
- Fuels treatments in ponderosa pine - Visits to the Boise National Forest and Boise Basin Exp. Forest
- Restoration fuels treatments in old-growth: Visiting research plots in western larch and ponderosa pine forests
- A comprehensive guide to fuel management practices for dry mixed conifer forests in the northwestern United States: monitoring
- Characterizing spatial reference conditions in southwestern warm/dry mixed-conifer forests
- Ignition devices for prescribed burning
- Integrated fuel/restoration treatments - Field tour at the Priest River Experimental Forest
- Breakthrough at the Missouri River Breaks: a quick tool for comparing burned and unburned sites
- Paying our way: thinking strategically to offset the cost of reducing fire hazard in western forests
- Forests at risk: integrating risk science into fuel management strategies
- Paying for hazardous fuel treatments with revenue from removed biomass
- Two-aged silvicultural treatments in lodgepole pine stands can be economically viable
- Economics research unit explores biomass utilization opportunities on the Bitterroot National Forest
- Fuels planning: science synthesis and integration; environmental consequences fact sheet 2: First Order Fire Effects Model (FOFEM)
- Red Lodge, Montana: steps to improve community preparedness for wildfire
- Fuels planning: science synthesis and integration; social issues fact sheet 4: three critical topics to cover when talking about hazards
- Fuels planning: science synthesis and integration; forest structure and fire hazard fact sheet 4: role of silviculture in fuel treatments
Syntheses
- A systematic review of empirical evidence for landscape-level fuel treatment effectiveness
- Fire behavior in masticated fuels: a review
- Principal short-term findings of the National Fire and Fire Surrogate study
- Do thinning and/or burning treatments in western USA ponderosa or Jeffrey pine-dominated forests help restore natural fire behavior?
- Management guide to ecosystem restoration treatments: two-aged lodgepole pine forests of central Montana, USA
- The effects of forest fuel-reduction treatments in the United States
- Tree spatial patterns in fire-frequent forests of western North America, including mechanisms of pattern formation and implications for designing fuel reduction and restoration treatments
- A comprehensive guide to fuel management practices for dry mixed conifer forests in the northwestern United States
- Comprehensive fuels treatment practices guide for mixed conifer forests: California, central and southern Rockies, and the Southwest
- Can fuel-reduction treatments really increase forest carbon storage in the western US by reducing future fire emissions?
- Review of fuel treatment effectiveness in forests and rangelands and a case study from the 2007 megafires in central, Idaho, USA
- Fuel reduction management practices in riparian areas of the Western USA
- Mitigating old tree mortality in long-unburned, fire-dependent forests: a synthesis
- Ecological effects of prescribed fire season: a literature review and synthesis for managers
- Objectives and considerations for wildland fuel treatment in forested ecosystems of the interior western United States
- Synthesis of knowledge from woody biomass removal case studies
- Maintaining soil productivity during forest or biomass-to-energy thinning harvests in the western United States
- Managing fire risk in the forests of the U.S. inland Northwest: a classic "wicked problem" in public land policy
- Science information for informing forest fuel management in dry forests of the western United States
- Modeling fuel treatment costs on Forest Service lands in the western United States
- Wildlife and invertebrate response to fuel reduction treatments in dry coniferous forests of the Western United States: a synthesis
- Timber markets and fuel treatments in the western U.S.
- Ponderosa pine ecosystems
- Forest structure and fire hazard in dry forests of the Western United States
- Fire ecology of ponderosa pine and the rebuilding of fire-resilient ponderosa pine ecosystems
- Effectiveness of thinning and prescribed fire in reducing wildfire severity
- Can the fire-dependent whitebark pine be saved?
Management Documents
- Interagency prescribed fire planning and procedures guide
- Integrating fuel treatment into ecosystem management: a proposed project planning process
- Environmental assessment: Tenderfoot Creek Experimental Forest - Vegetative treatment research project, Kings Hill Ranger District, Lewis and Clark National Forest, Meagher County, Montana
Annotated Bibliographies
Conference Proceedings
- Initial results from a field experiment to support the assessment of fuel treatment effectiveness in reducing wildfire intensity and spread rate
- Fuel treatment effectiveness in reducing fire intensity and spread rate -- an experimental overview
- Human relationships to fire prone ecosystems: mapping values at risk on contested landscapes
- Willingness-to-pay function for two fuel treatments to reduce wildfire acreage burned: a scope test and comparison of white and hispanic households
- Mapping tradeoffs in values at risk at the interface between wilderness and non-wilderness lands
- The effects of hazardous fuel reduction treatments in the wildland urban interface on the activity of bark beetles infesting ponderosa pine
- Restoration of northern Rocky Mountain moist forests: integrating fuel treatments from the site to the landscape
- Forest harvest can increase subsequent forest fire severity
- Managing fire risk in the forests of the U.S. inland Northwest: a classic "wicked problem" in public land policy
- The homeowner view of thinning methods for fire hazard reduction: more positive than many think
- Maintaining soil productivity during forest or biomass-to-energy thinning harvests in the western United States
- Testing the modeled effectiveness of an operational fuel reduction treatment in a small western Montana interface landscape using two spatial scales
- Effects of alternative treatments on canopy fuel characteristics in five conifer stands
- Free selection: a silvicultural option
- Changes in downed wood and forest structure after prescribed fire in ponderosa pine forests
- Mastication: a fuel reduction and site preparation alternative
- Design and objectives of FTM-West model
- Estimating Fuel Bed Loadings in Masticated Areas
- FTM-West model results for selected fuel treatment scenarios
- Biomass utilization modeling on the Bitterroot National Forest
- Estimating timber harvesting costs for fuel treatment in the West: preliminary results
- Integrating fuel treatments into comprehensive ecosystem management
- Estimating woody biomass supply from thinning treatments to reduce fire hazard in the US West
- The use of silviculture and prescribed fire to manage stand structure and fuel profiles in a multi-aged lodgepole pine forest
- FTM-West: fuel treatment market model for US West
- Organizational characteristics that contribute to success in engaging the public to accomplish fuels management at the wilderness/non-wilderness interface
- Fire ecology of ponderosa pine and the rebuilding of fire-resilient ponderosa pine ecosystems
- Effect of alternative silvicultural treatments on snow accumulation in lodgepole pine stands, Montana, U.S.A.
- Predicting cumulative watershed effects of fuel management with improved WEPP technology
- Effectiveness of thinning and prescribed fire in reducing wildfire severity
- Research on stand management options for reducing fuels and restoring two-aged lodgepole pine communities on the Tenderfoot Creek Experimental Forest
- Comparing potential fuel treatment trade-off models: initial results
- Performance of fuel treatments subjected to wildfires
- Combining simulation and optimization for evaluating the effectiveness of fuel treatments for four different fuel conditions at landscape scales
- Simulating fire hazard reduction, wood flows, and economics of fuel treatments with FVS, FEEMA, and FIA data
- Use of fire and silvicultural techniques for whitebark pine restoration successes, caveats, and assessment techniques
- Alternative ponderosa pine restoration treatments in the western United States
- Manipulations to regenerate aspen ecosystems
- Sequential use of simulation and optimization in analysis and planning
- Ecosystem-based management at lower elevations
- The Bitterroot Ecosystem Management Research Project: what we have learned, symposium proceedings; May 18-20, 1999; Missoula, MT
- Fire applications in ecosystem management
- The Fire and Fire Surrogates Study: providing guidelines for fire in future forest watershed management decisions
- Silvicultural treatments
- Ecosystem-based management in the lodgepole pine zone
- Ecosystem-based management in the whitebark pine zone
- Use of the helitorch to enhance diversity on riparian corridors in mature pinyon-juniper communities: a conceptual approach
- Applying simulation and optimization to plan fuel treatments at landscape scales
- Modeling effects of prescribed fire on wildlife habitat: stand structure, snag recruitment and coarse woody debris
Presentation Slides
Dissertations/Theses
- Public perceptions of smoke from wildfire, prescribed fire, and fire use
- National to local: a pre & post assessment of the Fuel Characteristic Classification System (FCCS) landscape variables for the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes
- Influencing public perceptions of smoke management and prescribed burning programs: an analysis of opportunities existing in communication tactics, community-based partnerships and interagency decision making
- Establishment and growth of conifer regeneration following harvest and residue treatments in a western larch-Douglas-fir forest
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