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Abstract
Strategic identification and local placement of fuel treatments are significant regional and local forest management problems addressed by two tools developed by Forest Service Research and Development.
Keywords
Fire management,
West (US),
forest biomass,
wildfire prevention,
wildfire control,
fuel reduction,
forest thinning,
economic aspects,
forest fires,
cost effectiveness,
timber supply,
market surveys,
forest products,
timber prices,
prices,
marketing,
fire ecology,
mathematical models,
Fuel Treatment Evaluator,
FTE,
myFTP,
My Fuel Treatment Planner,
fire hazard,
thinnings
Citation
Skog, Ken. 2007. Strategic and tactical fuel treatment evaluation tools. In: Fire social science research : selected highlights. General Technical Report PNW-GTR-736. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, 2007: p. 53-56.
