Traditional tools for predicting fire behavior have relied on generally defined vegetation characteristics to make broad scale predictions of wildfire behavior and fire danger. While these useful in wildfire suppression operations, they provide limited utility in the context of prescribed burns, which are planned and intentionally ignited to achieve more nuanced ecological or fuels objectives. Variability in moisture and structure conditions play a large role in driving outcomes of prescribed burns, but have not gained the much attention in refining predictive tools for guiding prescribed burning. Tune in and hear how Mike Gallagher at the Silas Little Experimental Forest is using new technologies and repeated fire experiments to develop new knowledge about the diversity of fuel conditions and fire behavior under prescribed burning conditions.
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May 16, 2018
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Fuel Treatments & Effects
Prescribed Fire-use treatments