Creating the Nation's Largest Forest Reserve: Roosevelt, Emmons, and the Tongass National Forest

Shaded fuelbreaks and larger landscape fuel treatments, such as prescribed ®re, are receiving renewed interest as forest protection strategies in the western United States. The effectiveness of fuelbreaks remains a subject of debate because of differing fuelbreak objectives, prescriptions for creation and maintenance, and their placement in landscapes with differing ®re regimes. A well-designed fuelbreak will alter the behavior of wildland ®re entering the fuel-altered zone. Both surface and crown ®re behavior may be reduced. Shaded fuelbreaks must be created in the context of the landscape within which they are placed. No absolute standards for fuelbreak width or fuel reduction are possible, although recent proposals for forested fuelbreaks suggest 400 m wide bands where surface fuels are reduced and crown fuels are thinned. Landscape-level treatments such as prescribed ®re can use shaded fuelbreaks as anchor points, and extend the zone of altered ®re behavior to larger proportions of the landscape. Coupling fuelbreaks with area-wide fuel treatments can reduce the size, intensity, and effects of wildland ®res. #

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The use of shaded fuelbreaks in landscape fire management

Agee

Bahro

Finney³

et al. 2000

Forest Ecology and Management

317

214

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Creating the Nation's Largest Forest Reserve: Roosevelt, Emmons, and the Tongass National Forest

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The use of shaded fuelbreaks in landscape fire management

The use of shaded fuelbreaks in landscape fire management

Land means the world: narratives of place and colonial ecological violence in the media framing of the Bears Ears National Monument

The New Race Consciousness: Race, Nation, and Empire in American Culture, 1910-1925

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