 FERA's
research mission is to inform management of natural resources through
research and development in fuels and combustion science, fire and
landscape ecology, and integration of the physical and ecological
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NEWS
Climate Change and the Eco-Hydrology of Fire: Will Area Burned Increase in a Warming Western USA?
Decomposition Rates for Hand-Piled Fuels
Fuel Treatment Decision Support System (IFTDSS) Goes Live
Gearing UP for Field Season
New Warning Statement on Digital Photo Series and Pile Calculator
Annual Fire Research Project at Tall Timbers Focuses on Prescribed Fire Science
Approaches to Wildland Fire Management Addressed at National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Area Burned in Alpine Treeline Ecotones Reflects Region-wide Trends
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Research Results |
Software and Electronic
Databases |
Fuel Treatment Effectiveness studies evaluate the  effectiveness of various forest and range fuel treatments. They are essential pieces of the puzzle of effectively and efficiently managing forests to sustain natural resources and reducing the fire hazard to human developments.
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Fuel and Fire Tools (FFT) is a single  integrated software application that includes the newest versions of FCCS, Consume,FEPS, the Pile Calculator and the Digital Photo Series.
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Wildland-Urban Interface Fire Dynamics Simulator (WFDS) extends the Fire Dynamics Simulator includes information about wildland fuels and fire to predict exposure and responses when wildfires occur on the edge of urban areas.
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 Forest
Service Research Publications,including those written by
members of the FERA team, which are available electronically
can be found on the Treesearch website.
A complete list of
team publications is can be found on our website.
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| Just the Facts
 Our
series of fact sheets on new products, produced in cooperation
with the FIREHouse project, provides a brief overview of the
major product lines FERA has produced in recent years. |
 Digital Photo Series, an electronic version of the popular natural fuels photo series that, in the past, has been only available in print.
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Climate Change Research Results from the Pacific Northwest Research Station provides links to
global climate change research projects.
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 Pile Calculator, a tool to estimate accurately and efficiently the biomass of piled fuels.
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| Cooperative Research
 FERA is a team of Forest Service employees who work closely with a talented group of scientists, professionals, and graduate and undergraduate students from the University of Washington School of Environmental and Forest Sciences.
We also cooperate with many other institutions of higher learning across the United States. |
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