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Escape probability: an alternative risk metric to support and evaluate wilderness fire management decisions
A goal of fire management in wilderness is to allow fire to play its natural ecological role without intervention. Unfortunately, most unplanned ignitions in wilderness are suppressed, in part because of the risk they might pose to values outside of…
Author(s): Kevin M. Barnett
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Quantifying the threat of unsuppressed wildfires reaching the adjacent wildland-urban interface on the Bridger-Teton National Forest, Wyoming, USA
An important objective for many federal land management agencies is to restore fire to ecosystems that have experienced fire suppression or exclusion over the last century. Managing wildfires for resource objectives (i.e., allowing wildfires to burn…
Author(s): Joe H. Scott, Don Helmbrecht, Sean A. Parks, Carol Miller
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The spatial context of fire: a new approach for predicting fire occurrence
Across North America, decades of fire suppression and recent patterns of human settlement have combined to increase the risks that wildland fires pose to human life, property, and natural resource values. Various methods can be used to reduce fuel…
Author(s): Carol Miller
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