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Project ID: 01-1-7-14

Year: 2001

Date Started: 09/17/2001

Date Completed: 02/01/2006

Title: Decision Support Methods for Prescribed Fire

Project Proposal Abstract: This proposal is in response to the Joint Fire Science Program RFP2001-1, Task 7: Develop scientifically based support tools to improve fire management decision processes. The proposed project takes the perspective that prescribed fire planning is inherently a problem of decision making under uncertainty and risk assessment, and plans to develop methods for improving prescribed fire planning that are based on decision science and risk management principles. The project will be undertaken as a field-level collaboration with an interagency group of prescribed fire experts, as well as a technology transfer organization. The focus of the project is the development of a software prototype for prescribed fire decision support that uses decision science principles to represent prescribed fire planning in terms of strategic alternatives and contingencies. Prototype development is guided by interaction with field experts in a series of workshops on the application of decision science principles in prescribed fire. Initial prototype development will be based on the Wildland Fire Decision Analysis (WFSA) software used in wildland fire decision support, and which uses decision analysis and multiattibute utility analysis to provide a framework for decision problem structuring, specification of objectives, assessment of uncertainties, outcome tradeoffs, and cost evaluation. The final product of the project is a software prototype and a set of recommendations for technology transfer, based on field experience with interagency prescribed fire personnel.

Principal Investigator: Donald G. MacGregor

Agency/Organization: MacGregor-Bates, Inc

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Other Project Collaborators

Type	Name	Agency/Organization	Branch or Dept
Collaborator/Contributor	Richard R. Bahr	NPS-National Park Service	NIFC-National Interagency Fire Center
Collaborator/Contributor	Lyle Carlile	BIA-Bureau of Indian Affairs	NIFC-National Interagency Fire Center
Collaborator/Contributor	Louisa B. Evers	BLM-Bureau of Land Management	Oregon State Office
Collaborator/Contributor	Bill Leenhouts	FWS-Fish and Wildlife Service	National Interagency Fire Center
Collaborator/Contributor	Kelly Martin	Forest Service	Humboldt-Toiyabe NF-Carson Ranger District
Collaborator/Contributor	Phil Range	BLM-Bureau of Land Management	NIFC-National Interagency Fire Center
Collaborator/Contributor	Sue Stewart	BLM-Bureau of Land Management	Oregon State Office
Federal Cooperator	Nick Reyna	Forest Service	RMRS-Rocky Mountain Research Station
Subcontractor (Only)	John S. Anderson	Balance Tech, LLC
Subcontractor (Only)	Carl L. Dammann	Carl Dammann, Consultant

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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.")

	ID	Type	Title
	4674	Refereed Publication	Risk Perception, Adaptation and Behavior Change: Self-Protection in the Wildland-Urban Interface
	8823	NonRefereed Publication	The Future of Fire in Environmental Management
	4675	NonRefereed Publication	Evaluating Designs for Fuel Management Projects: Application of a Multi-Attribute Framework
	4676	NonRefereed Publication	Integrated Research to Improve Fire Management Decisionmaking

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