Decision Support
The goal of NFDSC is to provide a key link between wildland fire science development and the appropriate application of that science.
By Josh McDaniel
How do we measure the effects of fuel treatments on a potential fire? How do we treat fuels to reduce risk while adhering to varying and often conflicting management restrictions? Until recently the tools just didn’t exist to answer these types of questions.
By David Calkin and Krista Gebert
New risk management tools are changing approaches to fire management and economists are playing a key role.
By Josh McDaniel
The Figueroa RAWS (Remote Automated Weather Station) sits at 3200 ft on a grassy knob in the mountains above Santa Barbara. The small unit is bristling with antennas, sensors, solar panels, and various weather measuring devices, making it appear like a stationary and earthly version of a Mars rover.
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The Zaca Fire
By Josh McDaniel
Fire behavior modeling, geospatial analysis, remote sensing, and weather forecasting, are available today that would have been inconceivable ten or even three years ago.
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Fire Behavior Modeling and Decision Support Systems
By Anne Black
FALL 2007
Topics: Fire Ecology, Decision Support
The Fire lookouts began calling in at 4:30 P.M. on Saturday July 20 2004. There were several fires on Green Ridge and in Scimitar Creek on the West Fork Ranger District of the Bitterroot National Forest (BRF).
By Josh McDaniel
Seven years of endless meetings, exhaustive planning, repetitive training, and a controversial and unprecedented set of prescribed burns were all justified when a large, intense wildfire was stopped in its tracks.
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Fire Behavior Modeling and Decision Support Systems
By Josh McDaniel
On July 23 and 24, 2006, the Shasta-Trinity National Forest in California was hit by a series of lightning strikes that started multiple ignitions across the Forest. Joe Millar, the fire management officer for the Forest, realized that a number of these fires had potential to become serious problems.
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Fire Behavior Modeling and Decision Support Systems
By Josh McDaniel
Sitting around tables in the darkened room, a group of federal land managers, environmentalists, local residents, contractors, and timber industry representatives stare intently at paper maps and projected GIS maps lining the side walls and the front of the room.
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Fire Behavior Modeling and Decision Support Systems