Optimal fire and fuels management

Evan Mercer; Greg G. Jones

Treesearch

Optimal fire and fuels management

Informally Refereed

Authors:

Evan Mercer, Greg G. Jones

Year:

2007

Type:

Miscellaneous Publication

Station:

Rocky Mountain Research Station

Source:

In: Gonzalez-Caban, Armando; Haynes, Richard W.; McCaffrey, Sarah; Mercer, Evan; Watson, Alan, tech. eds. Fire social science research-selected highlights. Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-736. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. p. 41-46.

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Abstract

Record suppression costs have led to a multitude of fire cost reviews and cost studies by oversight agencies, and new rules and regulations. One of the most important and elusive issues in fire management is defining the "best" amount of fuel treatments to apply to a forested landscape. Research is developing tools and information that address a wide variety of issues related to fire suppression costs and fuels management.

Parent Publication

Fire social science research–selected highlights.

Keywords

values, perceptions, suppression, communities, trust, economics, sociology, anthropology, psychology

Citation

Mercer, Evan; Jones, Greg. 2007. Optimal fire and fuels management. In: Gonzalez-Caban, Armando; Haynes, Richard W.; McCaffrey, Sarah; Mercer, Evan; Watson, Alan, tech. eds. Fire social science research-selected highlights. Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-736. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. p. 41-46.