Fuel treatment effectiveness in the context of landform, vegetation, and large, wind-driven wildfires

Large wildfires (>50,000 ha) are becoming increasingly common in semiarid landscapes of the western United States. Although fuel reduction treatments are used to mitigate potential wildfire effects, they can be overwhelmed in wind-driven wildfire events with extreme fire behavior. We evaluated dr...

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Published in:	Ecological applications Vol. 30; no. 5; pp. 1 - 22
Main Authors:	Prichard, Susan J., Povak, Nicholas A., Kennedy, Maureen C., Peterson, David W.
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	United States John Wiley and Sons, Inc 01.07.2020 Ecological Society of America
Subjects:	autocorrelation burn severity Climate change Environment models fire severity fire spread fire weather Fires fuel treatments Fuels Landforms Landscape landscape restoration landscapes Placement prescribed burning Progressions random forest Reduction Regression analysis Retrospective Studies Severe weather simultaneous autoregression Treatment Outcome Vegetation Washington Washington (state) Weather Wildfires Wind Washington prescribed burning simultaneous autoregression fire severity random forest wildfires fuel treatments Washington climate change landscape restoration
ISSN:	1051-0761, 1939-5582
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