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Connecting forestry to people in 2006

Creator:: United States. Forest Service
Abstract:: Gerald W. Williams Collection
Resource Type:: Book

Connecting forestry to people in 2007

Creator:: United States. Forest Service
Resource Type:: Book
Full Text:: Connecting Forestry To People in 2007 State and Private

A Microeconomic Analysis of Wildfire Suppression Programs in the Western United States

Creator:: Rossi, David J.
Abstract:: This dissertation studies the microeconomics of forest fire suppression programs. It starts with an inquiry into the causes of increasing shares of public land management budgets devoted to wildland fire suppression in lieu of hazardous fuel reduction or other pre-fire risk mitigation programs. The first two chapters consider competing economic...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: . Title: A Microeconomic Analysis of Wildfire Suppression Programs in the Western United States

Historical and current forest landscapes in Eastern Oregon and Washington. Part 2. Linking vegetation characteristics to potential fire behavior and related smoke production

Creator:: Huff, Mark H., Ottmar, Roger D., Alvarado, Ernesto, Vinnanek, Robert E., Lehmkuhl, John F., Hessburg, Paul F., and Everett, Richard L.
Abstract:: We compared the potential fire behavior and smoke production of historical and current time periods based on vegetative conditions in forty-nine 5100- to 13 500-hectare watersheds in six river basins in eastern Oregon and Washington. Vegetation composition, structure, and patterns were attributed and mapped from aerial photographs taken from 1932...
Resource Type:: Technical Report

The evolution of forest fire protection in the United States

Creator:: Orell, Bernard
Abstract:: In presenting this thesis it will probably be necessary for me to qualify the usefulness of the paper I am writing.school of At first glance it would seem to be just a mere recording of the progress of forest fire protection in recent years and, as such, to have no...
Resource Type:: Undergraduate Thesis
Full Text:: great, bad it not been for the time, money, and effort spent on fire prevention and suppression, it is

Fireline notebook

Creator:: United States. Forest Service. Northern Region
Abstract:: Gerald W. Williams Collection
Resource Type:: Book
Full Text:: adjoining forces. Give clear instructions and be sure they are understood. Maintain control of your xien

Initial attack fire suppression, spatial resource allocation, and fire prevention policy in California, the United States, and the Republic of Korea

Creator:: Lee, Yohan
Abstract:: In this dissertation, I combined a scenario-based, standard-response optimization model with a stochastic simulation model to improve the efficiency of the deployment of initial attack firefighting resources on wildland fires in California and the Republic of Korea. The optimization model minimizes the expected number of fires that do not receive...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Suppression, Spatial Resource Allocation, and Fire Prevention Policy in California, the United States, and

Communicating the wildland fire message : an investigation of agency outreach strategies

Creator:: Toman, Eric Lee
Abstract:: Wildfire impacts have increased in recent years. The management response outlined by recent policy initiatives (e.g., the National Fire Plan, Healthy Forests Restoration Act) emphasizes the use of prescribed fire and mechanized thinning to reduce the risk of future fire events. These policies also call for an unprecedented level of...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: INTRODUCTION TO DISSERTATION TOPIC Wildfire impacts have increased in extent and severity in recent years

History of smokejumping

Creator:: United States. Forest Service. Northern Region. Division of Fire Control
Abstract:: Gerald W. Williams Collection
Resource Type:: Book
Full Text:: . Air Force. Aerial fire control in Region 1 (Montana, Idaho, and eastern Washington) dates from the

How We’ve Rebuilt : Collaboration, Community, Institutions, and Adaptation Following Catastrophic Wildland Fire in the United States

Creator:: Fishler, Hillary K.
Abstract:: In the study of rebuilding and recovery after natural disasters in the United States, little attention is paid to understanding how and why people rebuild following recurring, small-scale events, like wildfire. Hazard and risk literature, instead, is focused on understanding how larger communities with greater resources, economics, and social capital,...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: United States, little attention is paid to understanding how and why people rebuild following

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Connecting forestry to people in 2006

Connecting forestry to people in 2007

A Microeconomic Analysis of Wildfire Suppression Programs in the Western United States

Historical and current forest landscapes in Eastern Oregon and Washington. Part 2. Linking vegetation characteristics to potential fire behavior and related smoke production

The evolution of forest fire protection in the United States

Fireline notebook

Initial attack fire suppression, spatial resource allocation, and fire prevention policy in California, the United States, and the Republic of Korea

Communicating the wildland fire message : an investigation of agency outreach strategies

History of smokejumping

How We’ve Rebuilt : Collaboration, Community, Institutions, and Adaptation Following Catastrophic Wildland Fire in the United States

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