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Simulating fire patterns in heterogeneous landscapes
A broad-scale probabilistic model of forest fires, EMBYR, has been developed to simulate the effects of large fires burning through heterogeneous landscapes. Fire ignition and spread are simulated on a gridded landscape by (1) examining each burning…
Author(s): William W. Hargrove, Robert H. Gardner, Monica G. Turner, William H. Romme, Don G. Despain
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Fire-climate interactions in the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness area
Tree-ring reconstructed summer drought was examined in relation to the occurrence of 15 fires in the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness Area (SBW). The ten largest fire years between 1880 and 1995 were selected from historical fire atlas data; five…
Author(s): Kurt F. Kipfmueller, Thomas W. Swetnam
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Stevensville West Central Study
This paper reports on an application of two modeling systems in the assessment and planning effort for a 58,038-acre area on the Bitterroot National Forest: SIMulating Vegetative Patterns and Processes at Landscape ScaLEs (SIMPPLLE), and Multi-…
Author(s): J. Greg Jones, Jimmie D. Chew, Nan K. Christianson, D. J. Silvieus, Catherine A. Stewart
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The Mann Gulch Fire and the Canadian Forest Fire Danger Rating System
The year 1999 marks the 50th anniversary of the Mann Gulch Fire that occurred in western Montana on August 5, 1949 (Matthews 1999). There has been considerable interest amongst the Canadian wildland fire community in the 1949 Mann Gulch Fire ever…
Author(s): Martin E. Alexander
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