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Project ID: 12-1-03-19

Year: 2012

Date Started: 10/01/2012

Ending Date:  09/30/2015

Title: Quantifying the Effectiveness and Longevity of Wildland Fire as a Fuel Treatment

Project Proposal Abstract: This proposal addresses JFSP announcement FA-RFA-12-0001, task statement #3 "Fuel treatment effectiveness." The proposed project will quantify the effectiveness of wildland fire as a fuel treatment in terms of its ability to limit the occurrence, extent, and burn severity (i.e. fire behavior) of subsequent fires. In addition, we will quantify the longevity of these effects. In an effort to broaden the applicability of our results, we will evaluate hundreds of wildfire treatments from multiple study areas that span a wide range of environmental conditions and represent a diversity of vegetation types. These results will provide land managers with quantitative information about fires ability to reduce future fire occurrence, fire extent, and burn severity. This information is critically necessary for formulating an appropriate management response to wildfire events, especially as recent changes in policy and climate will likely result in landscapes with more fire and repeated burns.

Principal Investigator: Carol L. Miller

Agency/Organization: Forest Service

Branch or Dept: RMRS-Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute

Other Project Collaborators

Type	Name	Agency/Organization	Branch or Dept
Budget Contact	Edith M. Cates	Forest Service	RMRS-Rocky Mountain Research Station
Co-Principal Investigator	Sean A. Parks	Forest Service	RMRS-Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute
Funding Cooperator	Carol L. Miller	Forest Service	RMRS-Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute
Grants and Agreements Contact	Cindy D. Gordon	Forest Service	RMRS-Rocky Mountain Research Station

Project Locations

Consortium

Level	State	Agency	Unit
REGIONAL	Pacific Coast States	MULTIPLE
REGIONAL	Interior West	MULTIPLE

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