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The role of fuel treatments during incident management
Year: 2025
BackgroundForest fuel reduction treatments are intended to mitigate negative impacts from wildland fires, protect communities, and support firefighting. Understanding fuel treatment use is important for evaluating treatment effectiveness, which, in turn, can inform the strategic planning and design of treatments. A relatively understudied aspect of fuel treatments is how existing fuel treatments are incorporated into firefighting (i.e., incident management). In this paper, we explore how fuel treatments are used by firefighters and Incident Management Teams during fires …
fuels-reduction treatments, incident command system, firefighting, incident management teams, incident management teams
Publication Type: Journal Article
Combining ecophysiology and combustion traits: a pyro-ecophysiological approach to live fuel moisture prediction in common shrubs
Year: 2025
BackgroundQuantifying fuel moisture content accurately is critical for understanding global vegetation flammability. While models representing changes in dead fuel moisture are relatively advanced, the mechanisms driving fluctuations in live fuel moisture content (LFMC) have been difficult to capture. Living plants make up a large proportion of the fuel complex for wildfires, yet linking plant and combustion science to advance our understanding of wildfire risk has, to date, been limiting. Developing mechanistic approaches to link these two disciplines will confer greater understanding and…
Publication Type: Journal Article