Saving the Forest by Reducing Fire Severity: Selective Fuels Treatment Location and Scheduling

Church, Richard L.; Niblett, Matthew R.; O’Hanley, J.R.; Middleton, Richard S.; Barber, Klaus H.

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-20282-2_7

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“…At more than 250,000 acres, this is one of the largest forest fires that has occurred in California. Since the work of Finney [13], the US Forest Service has been involved in the planning and management of fuels removal for selected areas across the National Forests in California [8].…”

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Location Analytics for Transitioning to Fire Resilient Landscapes

Murray¹,

Church²,

Pludow³

et al. 2022

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

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Wildfire risk is significant for forest and vegetative landscapes, particularly in regions where climate change is resulting in prolonged droughts and extended fire seasons that are a fire risk to people and property. An important component of mitigation is restoration programs that transition landscapes to be more fire resilient. A collaborative partnership between the US Forest Service and university researchers is reported that takes advantage of location intelligence. This paper reviews this general planning problem and details location analytic based approaches for informing mitigation efforts. Application of results highlight the ability to optimize goals and objectives while maintaining project area needs and treatment thresholds.

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“…To aid in planning fuels treatments, spatially-based models and software programs have been developed to identify critical areas for fuels removal as well as schedule these activities over time [8]. One of the models that has been used extensively in the western United States is the ForSys program (see [1,2]).…”

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confidence: 99%