Modeling Fuel Treatment Leverage: Encounter Rates, Risk Reduction, and Suppression Cost Impacts

An empirical machine learning method for predicting potential fire control locations for pre-fire planning and operational fire management

(2017) Christopher D. O' Connor et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WILDLAND FIRE

Return on investment from fuel treatments to reduce severe wildfire and erosion in a watershed investment program in Colorado

(2017) Kelly W. Jones et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Inventory-Based Landscape-Scale Simulation of Management Effectiveness and Economic Feasibility with BioSum

(2017) Jeremy S. Fried et al.   JOURNAL OF FORESTRY

An Evaluation of the Forest Service Hazardous Fuels Treatment Program—Are We Treating Enough to Promote Resiliency or Reduce Hazard?

(2017) Nicole M. Vaillant et al.   JOURNAL OF FORESTRY

Human-started wildfires expand the fire niche across the United States

(2017) Jennifer K. Balch et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Adapt to more wildfire in western North American forests as climate changes

(2017) Tania Schoennagel et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Wildfire Policy in Mediterranean France: How Far is it Efficient and Sustainable?

(2017) Thomas Curt et al.   RISK ANALYSIS

Quantifying the human influence on fire ignition across the western USA

(2016) Emily J. Fusco et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Examining alternative fuel management strategies and the relative contribution of National Forest System land to wildfire risk to adjacent homes – A pilot assessment on the Sierra National Forest, California, USA

(2016) Joe H. Scott et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

The net benefits of human-ignited wildfire forecasting: the case of tribal land units in the United States

(2016) Jeffrey P. Prestemon et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WILDLAND FIRE

Anthropogenic influence on wildfire activity in Alberta, Canada

(2016) Fran�ois-Nicolas Robinne et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WILDLAND FIRE

Production possibility frontiers and socioecological tradeoffs for restoration of fire adapted forests

(2016) Alan A. Ager et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Examining heterogeneity and wildfire management expenditures using spatially and temporally descriptive data

(2016) Michael S. Hand et al.   Journal of Forest Economics

Importance of fuel treatment for limiting moderate-to-high intensity fire: findings from comparative fire modelling

(2016) Geoffrey J. Cary et al.   LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY

Impact of anthropogenic climate change on wildfire across western US forests

(2016) John T. Abatzoglou et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Application of Wildfire Risk Assessment Results to Wildfire Response Planning in the Southern Sierra Nevada, California, USA

(2016) Matthew Thompson et al.   Forests

Beyond Fuel Treatment Effectiveness: Characterizing Interactions between Fire and Treatments in the US

(2016) Kevin Barnett et al.   Forests

Mid-21st-century climate changes increase predicted fire occurrence and fire season length, Northern Rocky Mountains, United States

(2016) Karin L. Riley et al.   Ecosphere

Mapping forest vegetation for the western United States using modified random forests imputation of FIA forest plots

(2016) Karin L. Riley et al.   Ecosphere

Evaluating potential trade-offs among fuel treatment strategies in mixed-conifer forests of the Sierra Nevada

(2016) Jens T. Stevens et al.   Ecosphere

U.S. federal fire and forest policy: emphasizing resilience in dry forests

(2016) Scott L. Stephens et al.   Ecosphere

Modeling fuel treatment impacts on fire suppression cost savings: A review

(2015) Matthew P. Thompson et al.   CALIFORNIA AGRICULTURE

Development and application of a geospatial wildfire exposure and risk calculation tool

(2015) Matthew P. Thompson et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MODELLING & SOFTWARE

The Economics of Ecological Restoration and Hazardous Fuel Reduction Treatments in the Ponderosa Pine Forest Ecosystem

(2015) Michael H. Taylor et al.   FOREST SCIENCE

Global patterns in fire leverage: the response of annual area burnt to previous fire

(2015) Owen F. Price et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WILDLAND FIRE

Constraints on Mechanized Treatment Significantly Limit Mechanical Fuels Reduction Extent in the Sierra Nevada

(2015) Malcolm North et al.   JOURNAL OF FORESTRY

Reform forest fire management

(2015) M. P. North et al.   SCIENCE

Climate-induced variations in global wildfire danger from 1979 to 2013

(2015) W. Matt Jolly et al.   Nature Communications

Prioritization of Forest Restoration Projects: Tradeoffs between Wildfire Protection, Ecological Restoration and Economic Objectives

(2015) Kevin Vogler et al.   Forests

Principles of Effective USA Federal Fire Management Plans

(2015) Marc D. Meyer et al.   Fire Ecology

Theory and Practice of Wildland Fuels Management

(2015) Philip N. Omi   Current Forestry Reports

Empirical Support for the Use of Prescribed Burning as a Fuel Treatment

(2015) Paulo M. Fernandes   Current Forestry Reports

Opportunities for Improved Fire Use and Management in California: Lessons from Western Australia

(2015) Tim S. Kline et al.   Fire Ecology

Effectiveness of fuel treatments for mitigating wildfire risk and sequestering forest carbon: A case study in the Lake Tahoe Basin

(2014) E. Louise Loudermilk et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT

Forest fire management to avoid unintended consequences: A case study of Portugal using system dynamics

(2013) Ross D. Collins et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Quantifying the Potential Impacts of Fuel Treatments on Wildfire Suppression Costs

(2013) Matthew P. Thompson et al.   JOURNAL OF FORESTRY

Land Use Planning and Wildfire: Development Policies Influence Future Probability of Housing Loss

(2013) Alexandra D. Syphard et al.   PLoS One

Restoration of fire in managed forests: a model to prioritize landscapes and analyze tradeoffs

(2013) Alan A. Ager et al.   Ecosphere

Estimation of wildfire size and risk changes due to fuels treatments

(2012) M. A. Cochrane et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF WILDLAND FIRE

Using Fire to Increase the Scale, Benefits, and Future Maintenance of Fuels Treatments

(2012) Malcolm North et al.   JOURNAL OF FORESTRY

The Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program: A History and Overview of the First Projects

(2012) Courtney A. Schultz et al.   JOURNAL OF FORESTRY

Can fuel-reduction treatments really increase forest carbon storage in the western US by reducing future fire emissions?

(2011) John L Campbell et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

A simulation of probabilistic wildfire risk components for the continental United States

(2011) Mark A. Finney et al.   STOCHASTIC ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND RISK ASSESSMENT

Impacts of fire exclusion and recent managed fire on forest structure in old growth Sierra Nevada mixed-conifer forests

(2011) Brandon M. Collins et al.   Ecosphere

Long-term impacts of prescribed burning on regional extent and incidence of wildfires—Evidence from 50 years of active fire management in SW Australian forests

(2009) Matthias M. Boer et al.   FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT