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Project ID: 05-4-1-10

Year: 2005

Date Started: 05/12/2005

Date Completed: 10/10/2007

Title: Fuel Treatments and Forest Health: A Film and Interactive DVD

Project Proposal Abstract: Communication between scientists and fuels managers has been limited because research results often only appear in a diverse array of journals making it difficult to locate applied information relevant to particular fuels conditions. In theory the internet could bridge this divide, but searches often produce a mass of unfiltered technical information without clear local relevance. Manager's need a base information platform with an intuitive organization from which to search the internet. This proposal seeks funding to use a new technology, interactive DVD, to gain the user's interest, provide a common information portal and a tool for flexible information acquisition. Interactive DVD provides a film, special features for more in-depth information, and an updating website organized as a search platform for targeted information gathering. The film would build on the Teakettle Experiment's existing outreach and provide information about the different effects of prescribed fire and mechanical thinning on forest ecosystems. When the DVD is inserted in a computer or player it produces a website that allows viewers to play the movie or the special features, search a library of pdfs or link to information that is visually and thematically organized. Current technology would allow the user to click on the apparent website (actually on the DVD) and that would launch the connection to the Internet seamlessly moving from the DVD to websites with more in-depth information. At present much of the fuels treatment literature is dispersed in scientific journals or at disparate individual websites making it difficult to locate, filter and explore. We believe this new technology can help close the information gap between managers, scientists and the public.

Principal Investigator: Malcolm P. North

Agency/Organization: Forest Service

Branch or Dept: PSW-Sierra Nevada Research Center

Other Project Collaborators

Type	Name	Agency/Organization	Branch or Dept
Federal Cooperator	Malcolm P. North	Forest Service	PSW-Sierra Nevada Research Center

Project Locations

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California

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Project Deliverables

Final Report ("Results presented in JFSP Final Reports may not have been peer-reviewed and should be interpreted as tentative until published in a peer-reviewed source.")

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