Can fuel treatments change how a wildfire burns across a landscape?

Terrie B. Jain; Sharon M. Hood; Shawn McKinney; Jeffrey E. Ott; Alexandra K. Urza; Morgan Varner; Ilana Abrahamson; Nathaniel Anderson; Michael A. Battaglia; Jeanne C. Chambers; Brice Hanberry; Francis F. Kilkenny; Joseph O’Brien

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Can fuel treatments change how a wildfire burns across a landscape?

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Authors:

Terrie B. Jain, Sharon M. Hood, Shawn McKinney, Jeffrey E. Ott, Alexandra K. Urza, Morgan Varner, Ilana Abrahamson, Nathaniel Anderson, Michael A. Battaglia, Jeanne C. Chambers, Brice Hanberry, Francis F. Kilkenny, Joseph O’Brien

Year:

2023

Type:

Science Bulletins and Newsletters

Station:

Rocky Mountain Research Station

Source:

Science You Can Use Bulletin, Issue 59. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 11 p.

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Abstract

By all measures, wildfires in the western United States are becoming more extreme. Fires are growing larger and burning more intensely, and suppression costs are spiraling upward. Maximizing the effectiveness of fuel treatments at the landscape scale is key given limited resources and the inability to treat all areas likely to burn in a wildfire.

Keywords

wildfire, fuel treatments, landscape scale

Citation

Jain, Theresa; Hood, Sharon; McKinney, Shawn; Ott, Jeffrey; Urza, Alexandra; Varner, Morgan; Abrahamson, Ilana; Anderson, Nathaniel; Battaglia, Mike; Chambers, Jeanne; Hanberry, Brice; Kilkenny, Francis; O’Brien, Joseph. 2023. Can fuel treatments change how a wildfire burns across a landscape? Science You Can Use Bulletin, Issue 59. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 11 p.