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Reducing hazardous fuels on nonindustrial private forests: factors influencing landowner decisions

Year of Publication
2011
Publication Type

In mixed-ownership landscapes, fuels conditions on private lands have implications for fire risk on public lands and vice versa. The success of efforts to mitigate fire risk depends on the extent, efficacy, and coordination of treatments on nearby ownerships. Understanding factors in forest owners’ decisions to address the risk of wildland fire is therefore important.

Introducing FuelCalc: A New Tool that Helps Turn Static Inventory Data into Actionable Information

Year of Publication
2010
Publication Type

Fuel and fire managers perform fuel treatments to manage and restore ecosystems and protect resources. In order to plan effective fuel treatments that accomplish objectives, managers need to analyze fuel conditions and document the expected fire behavior and fire effects both before and after fuel treatment. To help accomplish these goals, a new software tool named FuelCalc was created.

Wildfire Risk Management on a Landscape with Public and Private Ownership: Who Pays for Protection?

Year of Publication
2010
Publication Type

Wildfire, like many natural hazards, affects large landscapes with many landowners and the risk individual owners face depends on both individual and collective protective actions. In this study, we develop a spatially explicit game theoretic model to examine the strategic interaction between landowners’ hazard mitigation decisions on a landscape with public and private ownership.

Forest structure and fire hazard in dry forests of the Western United States

Year of Publication
2005
Publication Type

Fire, in conjunction with landforms and climate, shapes the structure and function of forests throughout the Western United States, where millions of acres of forest lands contain accumulations of flammable fuel that are much higher than historical conditions owing to various forms of fire exclusion.