Assessing Crown Fire Potential by Linking Models of Surface and Crown Fire Behavior
Title | Assessing Crown Fire Potential by Linking Models of Surface and Crown Fire Behavior PDF eBook |
Author | Joe H. Scott |
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Total Pages | 68 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Fire risk assessment |
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Fire managers are increasingly concerned about the threat of crown fires, yet only now are quantitative methods for assessing crown fire hazard being developed. Links among existing mathematical models of fire behavior are used to develop two indices of crown fire hazard-the Torching Index and Crowning Index. These indices can be used to ordinate different forest stands by their relative susceptibility to crown fire and to compare the effectiveness of crown fire mitigation treatments. The coupled model was used to simulate the wide range of fire behavior possible in a forest stand, from a low-intensity surface fire to a high-intensity active crown fire, for the purpose of comparing potential fire behavior. The hazard indices and behavior simulations incorporate the effects of surface fuel characteristics, dead and live fuel moistures (surface and crown), slope steepness, canopy base height, canopy bulk density, and wind reduction by the canopy. Example simulations are for western Montana Pinus ponderosa and Pinus contorta stands. Although some of the models presented here have had limited testing or restricted geographic applicability, the concepts will apply to models for other regions and new models with greater geographic applicability.
Standard Fire Behavior Fuel Models
Title | Standard Fire Behavior Fuel Models PDF eBook |
Author | Joe H. Scott |
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Total Pages | 80 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Fire management |
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Research Paper RMRS
Title | Research Paper RMRS PDF eBook |
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Total Pages | 180 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Forests and forestry |
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Wildland Fire Effects in Silviculturally Treated Vs. Untreated Stands of New Mexico and Arizona
Title | Wildland Fire Effects in Silviculturally Treated Vs. Untreated Stands of New Mexico and Arizona PDF eBook |
Author | Douglas Scott Cram |
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Total Pages | 36 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Forest fires |
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Development of Coarse-scale Spatial Data for Wildland Fire and Fuel Management
Title | Development of Coarse-scale Spatial Data for Wildland Fire and Fuel Management PDF eBook |
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Total Pages | 52 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Forest fire forecasting |
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The objective of this study was to provide managers with national-level data on current conditions of vegetation and fuels developed from ecologically based methods to address these questions: How do current vegetation and fuels differ from those that existed historically? Where on the landscape do vegetation and fuels differ from historical levels? In particular, where are high fuel accumulations? When considered at a coarse scale, which areas estimated to have high fuel accumulations represent the highest priorities for treatment?
Research Paper RMRS
Title | Research Paper RMRS PDF eBook |
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Total Pages | 162 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Forests and forestry |
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Cascading Effects of Fire Exclusion in Rocky Mountain Ecosystems
Title | Cascading Effects of Fire Exclusion in Rocky Mountain Ecosystems PDF eBook |
Author | Robert E. Keane |
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Total Pages | 32 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Fire ecology |
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The health of many Rocky Mountain ecosystems is in decline because of the policy of excluding fire in the management of these ecosystems. Fire exclusion has actually made it more difficult to fight fires, and this poses greater risks to the people who fight fires and for those who live in and around Rocky Mountain forests and rangelands. This paper discusses the extent of fire exclusion in the Rocky Mountains, then details the diverse and cascading effects of suppressing fires in the Rocky Mountain landscape by spatial scale, characteristic, and vegetation type. Also discussed are the varied effects of fire exclusion on some important, keystone ecosystems and human concerns.