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Mastication of standing trees to reduce crown fuel loading is an increasingly popular method of reducing wildfire hazard in the wildland-urban interface of Canada. Previous research has shown that masticated fuel beds can leave considerable…
Author(s): Dan K. Thompson, Tom J. Schiks, B. Mike Wotton
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The prevailing paradigm in the western U.S. is that the increase in stand-replacing wildfires in historically frequent-fire dry forests is due to unnatural fuel loads that have resulted from management activities including fire suppression, logging…
Author(s): Elizabeth L. Kalies, Larissa L. Yocom Kent
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Variable-retention harvesting in lodgepole pine offers an alternative to conventional, even-aged management. This harvesting technique promotes structural complexity and age-class diversity in residual stands and promotes resilience to disturbance.…
Author(s): Justin S. Crotteau, Christopher R. Keyes, Elaine Kennedy Sutherland, David K. Wright, Joel M. Egan
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The effectiveness of a hazardous fuel reduction treatment must take into account both the physical change on fuel loading and structure and the effect that this change may have on wildland fire behavior. We first took a remote sensing and field…
Author(s): Nick Skowronski, Albert Simeoni, Kenneth L. Clark, William E. Mell, Rory Hadden
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The Interagency Fuels Treatment Decision Support System (IFTDSS) is a web-based software and data integration framework that organizes fire and fuels software applications into a single online application. IFTDSS is designed to make fuels treatment…
Author(s): Stacy Drury, H. Michael Rauscher, Erin M. Banwell, Shih Ming Huang, Tami L. Lavezzo
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In response to increasing wildfire severity and extent across the dry forests of the western United States in the last several decades, federal policy initiatives have encouraged joint vegetation management and fuels treatments to restore ecosystem…
Author(s): Chad M. Hoffman, Michael A. Battaglia, Tony S. Cheng, Yvette Dickinson, Frederick W. Smith
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This report summarizes research funded by the Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP Project Number 12-1-03-31) addressing needs for information regarding the effectiveness and longevity of fuels treatments. We investigated the longevity of effects…
Author(s): J. Morgan Varner, Eric E. Knapp, Stacy Drury, Jesse K. Kreye, Gregory Hamby, Warren Reed
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