PROJECT 

Name:  Effect of Fuel Treatments on Wildfire Severity

Date Published:  3/25/2002

Brief Description:  This project investigated the severity of four recent wildfires that burned into existing fuel treatment areas. Treatments included repeated prescribed fires, single prescribed fires, debris removal, and mechanical thinning both with and without slash removal. Further information at: www.cnr.colostate.edu/frws/research/westfire/FinalReport.pdf

Complete Description:  This project will compare the severity of future wildfires in adjacent treated and untreated stands. The time-dependency for fuel collection of this ephemeral data has been proven through previous experience with the proposed methods. The results of this research would provide information on the effectiveness of fuel treatments for management jurisdictions. The additional information produced by this project would also support and improve a currently funded assessment of the generality of fuel treatment effectiveness. (description taken from JFSP website at http://jfsp.nifc.gov/JFSP_JFSP_Products.htm)

Related Resources*

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Effect of Fuels Treatment on Wildfire Severity -- Final Report 1999 Megram California Wildfire Study 2000 Hi Meadow Colorado Wildfire study 1999 Fontainebleau Mississippi Wildfire study 2000 Cerro Grande New Mexico Wildfire study Performance of fuel treatments subjected to wildfires [literature review] Fuels, fire severity, and invasive plants within the Cerro Grande Fire, Los Alamos, New Mexico Effect of Fuel Treatment on Wildfire Severity

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Contributor

Name/Organization	Contribution	Role	Contact Information
Stephen Botti		Co-Principal Investigator
Philip Omi		Co-Principal Investigator

Metadata Reference

Details ®	Created date: 5/5/2005 Metadata Creator: Chris Szell The Nature Conservancy (919) 484-7857 Ext. 142 cszell@tnc.org Type: FRAMES project Metadata Version: 1 Security Info: Schema: http://frames.nbii.gov/metadata/projects/projects.xsd
Keyword(s):	FRAMES subject categories fire behavior FRAMES subject categories fire effects FRAMES subject categories prescribed fire GACC regions California Northern GACC regions Rocky Mountain GACC regions Southern GACC regions Southwest

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