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Communicating about Fire
Year of Publication
2014
Publication Type
Stewarding Forests and Communities: Final Report of the Dry Forest Zone Project
Year of Publication
2014
Publication Type
During the past two decades, land managers and community leaders in the West have adopted sustainable land management methods to make forests healthier, and to maintain profitable local businesses that are beneficial to their communities.
NWFSC Research Brief #2: Private Forest Owners and Wildfire Risk: Policy Implications in a Diverse Population
Year of Publication
2014
Product Type
To better understand NIPF owners, and subsequently the types of policies that are most likely to engage them in fuel mitigation strategies, researchers at the USFS Pacific Northwest Research Station and Oregon State University surveyed and interviewed private forest landowners living in fire-prone forests in eastern and central Oregon. Over 500 survey responses and 60 one-on-one interviews with NIPF owners helped the research team better understand different types of landowners, their distinct motivations, and policy suitabilities for hazardous fuels reduction.
Fire For Water: Forest Restoration for Ashland, OR
Year of Publication
2013
Publication Type
The Ashland Forest Resiliency Stewardship Project has released “Fire for Water,” a 10-minute video (produced by Jon Schwedler, Darren Borgias and Chris Chambers) on the treatment work being done to protect the city of Ashland’s watershed. Some of the work in this multi-partner collaborative project is being supported by SPER funding, and the NW FLN is one of the co-sponsors of the video.
Closing the feedback loop: evaluation and adaptation in collaborative resource management
Year of Publication
2013
Publication Type
This sourcebook provides answers from the field— strategies and tools that some collaborative resource management groups have used to systematically evaluate their work and adapt plans and management actions based on what they have learned.
NWFSC Activity Report - Management of Cheatgrass Fuel Loading in the Shrub-Steppe
Year of Publication
2013
Publication Type
Lessons Learned from Waldo Canyon: FAC mitigation assessment team report
Year of Publication
2013
Publication Type
The Waldo Canyon fire presented the first opportunity for partners in the national Fire Adapted Communities (FAC) Coalition to collectively assess the performance of mitigation practices in Colorado Springs in a post-fire environment and to compare the results to the mitigation strategy recommended by the Fire Adapted Communities program.
NWFSC Activity Report - Systematic evidence-based review workshop
Year of Publication
2013
Publication Type
Building community-agency trust in fire affected communities in Australia and the United States
Year of Publication
2013
Publication Type
As a result of the increasing environmental and social costs of wildfire, fire management agencies face ever-growing complexity in their management decisions and interactions with the public.
Wildland firefighter entrapment avoidance: modelling evacuation triggers
Year of Publication
2013
Publication Type
Wildland firefighters are often called on to make tactical decisions under stressful conditions in order to suppress a fire. These decisions can be hindered by human factors such as insufficient knowledge of surroundings and conditions, lack of experience, overextension of resources or loss of situational awareness.
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