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Project ID: 01-1-7-03

Year: 2001

Date Started: 09/19/2001

Date Completed: 08/17/2006

Title: Using the NED Decision Support System to Improve Fuels Management Decision Processes

Project Proposal Abstract: The purpose of this study is to assist fire resource managers to characterize and reduce uncertainty, identify fire risk, and improve decision-making processes in the wildiand/urban interface as well as the broader forested wildiands. We propose expanding the existing NED decision support system so that it can be used by fire resource managers to assess and reduce the risk of fire hazard to human life; financial loss of property from a fire incident; and provide an evaluation of the impact of various fuels manipulation/reduction methods on future fire behavior and severity as well as ecosystem function, health, and productivity. This study is composed of 4 major tasks: (1) produce risk assessment guidelines for fuels management in wildland/urban interfaces;(2) provide guidelines for evaluating the impact of fuels management strategies on wildland ecosystems; (3) expand the NED DSS to incorporate new fire risk reduction and fuels management goals; and (4) test the new system using field-based case studies. This study addresses the JFSP RFP-2001-i task 7 (develop scientifically based support tools) and task 3 (determine cumulative effects of fuels manipulation/reduction).

Principal Investigator: H. Michael Rauscher

Agency/Organization: Forest Service

Branch or Dept: SRS-Bent Creek Experimental Forest

Other Project Collaborators

Type	Name	Agency/Organization	Branch or Dept
Co-Principal Investigator	David S. Buckley	University of Tennessee-Knoxville	Department of Forestry, Wildlife & Fisheries
Co-Principal Investigator	William G. Hubbard	University of Georgia	Warnell School of Forest Resources
Co-Principal Investigator	Alan J. Long	University of Florida	School of Forest Resources & Conservation
Co-Principal Investigator	Donald E. Nute	University of Georgia	Institute for Artificial Intelligence
Co-Principal Investigator	Kenneth W. Outcalt	Forest Service	SRS-Ctr for Forest Disturbance Science
Co-Principal Investigator	Thomas A. Waldrop	Forest Service	SRS-Department of Forest Resources
Collaborator/Contributor	Larry Aikman	NIPF
Collaborator/Contributor	Ted Dailey	Tennesee	Division of Forestry-Knoxville
Collaborator/Contributor	Will May	Alachua County Fire Rescue
Federal Cooperator	H. Michael Rauscher	Forest Service	SRS-Bent Creek Experimental Forest

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