Sentences with phrase «wildland fire use»
For example, wildland fire use has been an effective and inexpensive tool for maintaining forest resilience across large areas in remote forests and woodlands — the Gila Wilderness in New Mexico and Grand Canyon National Park in northern Arizona [62], [63]-- but has been used less frequently in forests near population centers and towns.
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Wildland fire use was considered and rejected: The pre-monsoonal conditions were too dry and the urban interface too near.
Wildland fire use, in the terminology of the Forest Service, means not doing anything to put out a fire.
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He says he's confident that the day will come when wildland fires will be forecast using computer models just as accurately as we now can forecast the next day's weather.
His research explores the influence of live fuels on wildland fire behavior and it also explores ways to use this improved understanding to develop predictive tools that can help support strategic and tactical wildland fire management decisions.
Fire Safety Evaluation: Visual evaluation, using Firewise standards as a guide in the urban wildland interface.
Completion of treatments in the first analysis area of the 4FRI project could have a multiplying effect on maintaining forest resilience if the thinning itself allows for increased use of wildland fire or prescribed fire over many more hectares.