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Interagency prescribed fire planning and procedures guide
Fire is an essential ecological process in many fire-dependent ecosystems. In large areas of the country, fire exclusion from these ecosystems has led to unhealthy forest, woodland and rangeland conditions. These areas are at risk of intense, severe…
Author(s): U.S. Department of Agriculture, U.S. Department of Interior
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Using fire to increase the scale, benefits, and future maintenance of fuels treatments
The USDA Forest Service is implementing a new planning rule and starting to revise forest plans for many of the 155 National Forests. In forests that historically had frequent fire regimes, the scale of current fuels reduction treatments has often…
Author(s): Malcolm P. North, Brandon M. Collins, Scott L. Stephens
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Restoration relevance of recent National Fire Plan treatments in forests of the western United States
The US National Fire Plan (NFP) is among the largest forest-restoration initiatives worldwide, removing wildland fuels on about 11 million hectares and costing over $6 billion. We evaluated the extent to which areas treated under the NFP-from 2004…
Author(s): Tania L. Schoennagel, Cara R. Nelson
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Integrating fuel treatment into ecosystem management: a proposed project planning process
Concern over increased wildland fire threats on public lands throughout the western United States makes fuel reduction activities the primary driver of many management projects. This single-issue focus recalls a management planning process practiced…
Author(s): Keith Stockmann, Kevin D. Hyde, J. Greg Jones, Dan R. Loeffler, Robin P. Silverstein
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Implementation of National Fire Plan fuel treatments near the wildland-urban interface in the western United States
Because of increasing concern about the effects of catastrophic wildland fires throughout the western United States, federal land managers have been engaged in efforts to restore historical fire behavior and mitigate wildfire risk. During the last 5…
Author(s): Tania L. Schoennagel, Cara R. Nelson, David M. Theobald, Gunnar C. Carnwath, Teresa B. Chapman
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Guide to fuel treatments in dry forests of the Western United States: assessing forest structure and fire hazard
Guide to Fuel Treatments analyzes a range of fuel treatments for representative dry forest stands in the Western United States with overstories dominated by ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa), Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii), and pinyon pine (…
Author(s): Morris C. Johnson, David L. Peterson, Crystal L. Raymond
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Wilderness fire management in a changing world
Several strategies are available for reducing accumulated forest fuels and their associated risks, including naturally or accidentally ignited wildland fires, management ignited prescribed fires, and a variety of mechanical and chemical methods (Omi…
Author(s): Carol Miller
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Forest structure and fire hazard in dry forests of the Western United States
ANNOTATION: This document synthesizes the relevant scientific knowledge that can assist fuel-treatment projects on national forests and other public lands and contribute to National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) analyses and other assessments. It…
Author(s): David L. Peterson, Morris C. Johnson, James K. Agee, Theresa B. Jain, Donald McKenzie, Elizabeth D. Reinhardt
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Effectiveness of thinning and prescribed fire in reducing wildfire severity
The severity of recent fire seasons in the US has provided dramatic evidence for the increasing complexity of wildfire problems. A wide variety of indicators suggest worsening dilemmas: area burned, funds expended, homes destroyed or evacuated,…
Author(s): Philip N. Omi, Erik J. Martinson
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