Optimizing spatial and temporal treatments to maintain effective fire and non-fire fuels treatments at landscape scales

Greg G. Jones; Woodam Chung; Carl Seielstad; Janet Sullivan; Kurt Krueger

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Optimizing spatial and temporal treatments to maintain effective fire and non-fire fuels treatments at landscape scales

Informally Refereed

Authors:

Greg G. Jones, Woodam Chung, Carl Seielstad, Janet Sullivan, Kurt Krueger

Year:

2010

Type:

Miscellaneous Publication

Station:

Rocky Mountain Research Station

Source:

Final Report, JFSP Project 06-3-3-14. U.S. Department of Agriculture/U.S. Department of the Interior, Joint Fire Science Program. 33p.

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Abstract

There is a recognized need to apply and maintain fuel treatments to reduce catastrophic wildland fires. A number of models and decision support systems have been developed for addressing different aspects of fuel treatments while considering other important resource management issues and constraints. Although these models address diverse aspects of the fuel treatment-planning problem, no one model adequately handles the strategic maintenance scheduling of fuel treatments while considering 1) the spatial and temporal changes of fuel treatment effects on a landscape, and 2) the economics of maintenance fuel treatments plus other operational constraints.

Keywords

fire and non-fire fuels treatments, landscape scales, models

Citation

Jones, J. Greg; Chung, Woodam; Seielstad, Carl; Sullivan, Janet; Krueger, Kurt. 2010. Optimizing spatial and temporal treatments to maintain effective fire and non-fire fuels treatments at landscape scales. Final Report, JFSP Project 06-3-3-14. U.S. Department of Agriculture/U.S. Department of the Interior, Joint Fire Science Program. 33p.