Cost-effective fire management for southern California's chaparral wilderness: an analytical procedure

Chris A. Childers; Douglas D. Piirto

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Cost-effective fire management for southern California's chaparral wilderness: an analytical procedure

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Authors:

Chris A. Childers, Douglas D. Piirto

Year:

1989

Type:

General Technical Report

Station:

Pacific Southwest Research Station

Source:

In: Berg, Neil H. tech. coord. Proceedings of the Symposium on Fire and Watershed Management: October 26-28, 1988, Sacramento, California. Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-109. Berkeley, Calif.: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Experiment Station: 30-37

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Abstract

Fire management has always meant fire suppression to the managers of the chaparral covered southern California National Forests. Today, Forest Service fire management programs must be cost effective, while wilderness fire management objectives are aimed at recreating natural fire regimes. A cost-effectiveness analysis has been developed to compare fire management options for meeting these objectives in California's chaparral wilderness. This paper describes the analytical procedure using examples from a study currently being conducted for the Los Padres National Forest, and discusses some preliminary results.

Parent Publication

Proceedings of the symposium on fire and watershed management

Citation

Childers, Chris A.; Piirto, Douglas D. 1989. Cost-effective fire management for southern California''s chaparral wilderness: an analytical procedure. In: Berg, Neil H. tech. coord. Proceedings of the Symposium on Fire and Watershed Management: October 26-28, 1988, Sacramento, California. Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-109. Berkeley, Calif.: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Experiment Station: 30-37