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12-1-03-19
2012
10/01/2012
09/30/2015
Quantifying the Effectiveness and Longevity of Wildland Fire as a Fuel Treatment
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.
Carol L. Miller
Forest Service
RMRS-Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute

Other Project Collaborators

Other Project Collaborators

Type

Name

Agency/Organization

Branch or Dept

Agreements Contact

Cindy D. Gordon

Forest Service

RMRS-Rocky Mountain Research Station

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

Project Locations

Project Locations

Fire Science Exchange Network

Level

State

Agency

Unit

REGIONAL

Pacific Coast States

MULTIPLE

REGIONAL

Interior West

MULTIPLE

Final Report

Project Deliverables

Title
 
Chapter 3: Ability of wildfires to limit the extent of subsequent firesView
Forest Ecology and ManagementView
Ecological ApplicationsView
International Journal of Wildland FireView
EcosystemsView
The ability of wildland fire to act as a fuel treatmentView
Effectiveness and longevity of wildland fire as a fuel treatmentView

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