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Fire Probability, Fuel Treatment Effectiveness and Ecological Tradeoffs in Western U.S. Public Forests

  • Baker W
  • Rhodes J
The Open Forest Science Journal (2008) 1(1) 1-7
DOI: 10.2174/1874398600801010001
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Abstract

Fuel treatment effectiveness and non-treatment risks can be estimated from the probability of fire occurrence. Using extensive fire records for western US Forest Service lands, we estimate fuel treatments have a mean probability of 2.0-7.9% of encountering moderate- or high-severity fire during an assumed 20-year period of reduced fuels.

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Baker, W. L., & Rhodes, J. J. (2008). Fire Probability, Fuel Treatment Effectiveness and Ecological Tradeoffs in Western U.S. Public Forests. The Open Forest Science Journal, 1(1), 1–7. https://doi.org/10.2174/1874398600801010001

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