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Risk management is not a new concept within the federal sector. What is new is the need to integrate risk management into the strategic and decisionmaking processes that cut across the organization, and abandon the outdated practice of managing…
Author(s): Karen Hardy
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This report was designed to meet three broad goals: (1) evaluate wildfire hazard on Federal lands; (2) develop information useful in prioritizing where fuels treatments and mitigation measures might be proposed to address significant fire hazard and…
Author(s): David E. Calkin, Alan A. Ager, Julie W. Gilbertson-Day
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We simulated fuel reduction treatments on a 16,000 ha study area in Oregon, US, to examine tradeoffs between placing fuel treatments near residential structures within an urban interface, versus treating stands in the adjacent wildlands to meet…
Author(s): Alan A. Ager, Nicole M. Vaillant, Mark A. Finney
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The spread of invasive annual grasses and resulting escalation of wildfire frequency and severity pose a significant and growing threat to the economic and ecological viability of the rangelands in the Great Basin. While private ranchers have the…
Author(s): Mimako Kobayashi, Michael H. Taylor
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We present a prototype decision support system for evaluating wild-land fire danger and prioritizing subwatersheds for vegetation and fuels treatment. We demonstrate the use of the system with an example from the Rocky Mountain region in the State…
Author(s): Paul F. Hessburg, Keith M. Reynolds, Robert E. Keane, Kevin M. James, R. Brion Salter
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