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RMRS-RN-22WWW: Fuels Planning: Science Synthesis and Integration:
Forest Structure and Fire Hazards
Fact sheet topics from the Forest Structure and Fire Hazard Team include information about fire hazard, visualization, silviculture, uncertainty, and larger scale treatments. More information ...
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Fuels planning: science synthesis and integration; forest structure and fire hazard fact sheet 1: forest structure and fire hazard overview. 2004. Res. Note RMRS-RN-22-1WWW. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 2 p.
Many managers and policy makers guided by the National Environmental Policy Act process want to understand the scientific principles on which they can base fuel treatments for reducing the size and severity of wildfires. These Forest Structure and Fire Hazard fact sheets discuss how to estimate fire hazard, how to visualize fuel treatments, and how the role of silviculture can help in managing forests to reduce crown fires.
RMRS-RN-22-1WWW: Forest Structure and Fire Hazard Overview
http://www.fs.fed.us/rm/pubs/rmrs_rn022_01.pdf
PDF File Size: 160 KFuels planning: science synthesis and integration; forest structure and fire hazard fact sheet 2: fire hazard. 2004. Res. Note RMRS-RN-22-2WWW. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 2 p.
Fire hazard reflects the potential fire behavior and magnitude of effects as a function of fuel conditions. This fact sheet discusses crown fuels, surface fuels, and ground fuels and their contribution and involvement in wildland fire.
RMRS-RN-22-2WWW: Fire Hazard
http://www.fs.fed.us/rm/pubs/rmrs_rn022_02.pdf
PDF File Size: 150 KFuels planning: science synthesis and integration; forest structure and fire hazard fact sheet 3: visualizing forest structure and fuels. 2004. Res. Note RMRS-RN-22-3WWW. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 2 p.
The software described in this fact sheet provides managers with tools for visualizing forest and fuels information. Computer-based landscape simulations can help visualize stand and landscape conditions and the effects of different management treatments and fuel changes over time. These visualizations can assist forest planning by considering a range of management options, as well as facilitate communication with a variety of users including the general public.
RMRS-RN-22-3WWW: Visualizing Forest Structure and Fuels
http://www.fs.fed.us/rm/pubs/rmrs_rn022_03.pdf
PDF File Size: 200 KFuels planning: science synthesis and integration; forest structure and fire hazard fact sheet 4: role of silviculture in fuel treatments. 2004. Res. Note RMRS-RN-22-4WWW. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 2 p.
The principal goals of fuel treatments are to reduce fireline intensities, reduce the potential for crown fires, improve opportunities for successful fire suppression, and improve forest resilience to forest fires. This fact sheet discusses thinning, and surface fuel treatments, as well as challenges associated with those treatments.
RMRS-RN-22-4WWW: Role of Silviculture in Fuel Treatments
http://www.fs.fed.us/rm/pubs/rmrs_rn022_04.pdf
PDF File Size: 150 KFuels planning: science synthesis and integration; forest structure and fire hazard fact sheet 5: fuel treatment principles for complex landscapes. 2004. Res. Note RMRS-RN-22-5WWW. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 2 p.
Appropriate types of thinning and surface fuel treatments are clearly useful in reducing surface and crown fire hazards under a wide range of fuels and topographic situations. This paper provides well-established scientific principles and simulation tools that can be used to adjust fuel treatments to attain specific risk levels.
RMRS-RN-22-5WWW: Fuel Treatment Principles for Complex Landscapes
http://www.fs.fed.us/rm/pubs/rmrs_rn022_05.pdf
PDF File Size: 130 KFuels planning: science synthesis and integration; forest structure and fire hazard fact sheet 6: Guide to fuel treatments in dry forests of the Western United States: assessing forest structure and fire hazard. 2005. Res. Note RMRS-RN-22-6WWW. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 2 p.
The Guide to Fuel Treatments analyzes a range of potential silvicultural thinnings and surface fuel treatments for 25 representative dry-forest stands in the Western United States. The guide provides quantitative guidelines and visualization for treatment based on scientific principles identified for reducing potential crown fires. This fact sheet identifies the intended users and uses, required inputs, what the model does, and tells the user how to obtain the model.
RMRS-RN-22-6WWW: Guide to fuel treatments in dry forests of the Western United States: assessing forest structure and fire hazard
http://www.fs.fed.us/rm/pubs/rmrs_rn022_06.pdf
PDF File Size: 210 K
Title: RMRS-RN-22WWW:
Fuels Planning: Science Synthesis and Integration: Forest Structure
and Fire Hazards
Electronic Publish Date: September 28, 2004
Last Update: December
22, 2005