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Fire Behavior Assessment Team
 

Sponsored by:
Judie Tartaglia,
Tahoe National Forest,
Region 5
Deputy Forest Supervisor

Kent P. Connaughton
Regional Forester
Region 9

United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Enterprise
United States Department of Agriculture USDA Forest Service Enterprise - Reinvention Lab

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Rapid Response Fire Project 2002

Measuring Effectiveness of Fuel Treatments During Wildfires

Current wildland fire suppression, fuel treatment programs, and fire planning efforts require quantitative information on how fuel treatments and other past land-use activities influence fire behavior. The best means to obtain this information is through direct measurement of fuel conditions and fire behavior as fire passes through areas of the landscape with different treatment histories and fuel configurations. Currently, managers rely upon fuel and fire behavior modeling or post-hoc fire research (Omi 1999) to gain this type of information.

Firefighter using drip torch.
PROJECT INFO
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December 2002

 

 

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