Published Library Resources

This virtual library holds a wide range of urban forestry resources including: research abstracts and full text journal articles, trade magazine articles, CDs, other technology transfer resources, books (or chapters of books), patents, ordinances, theses and dissertations, and conference proceedings.

Home building in central cities

Though there has been a continuing shift of population and jobs to suburban areas, many homes are built in the central cities of the nation’s metropolitan areas. From 1990 to 1997, and average of about 250,000 permits per year were issued for new housing units in central cities, representing ...

Urban fringe forestry in Hong Kong

The Metropolitan Urban Fringe Forestry Program commenced in 1991 with the aim of afforesting 60 ha. of eroded and degraded land on the urban fringe of the metropolitan area of Hong Kong Island and Kowloon. The objectives of the program were to control soil erosion, enhance areas of degraded land ...

Urban forest health needs assessment survey: Results and recommendations

The Urban Forest Health Needs Assessment Survey was designed to query urban forestry professionals and learn about their attitudes toward the general issue of urban forest health, identify specific training and information needs in the areas of urban tree health management, and discover preferences ...

Urban Ecosystems and Island Biogeography

In urban areas, continuing fragmentation of natural habitat, disturbance and increasing isolation of individual 'habitat islands', has brought on almost general reduction in species richness. Sensitive species are being replaced by aggressive synanthropic ones. Continued loss seems inevitable, but ...

The economics of urban amenities: Studies in urban economics

This book advances the analysis of amenities by providing conceptual, methodological, and empirical foundations for such analysis. It also applies amenity concepts to a wide variety of specific phenomena. These phenomena are associated with access to places for buying and selling outputs and ...

The distridution and objectives of local forestry - related ordinances in the United States

 

Tax tips for forest landowners for the 1999 tax year

Environmentalists amid concerns about other problems often have overlooked urban sprawl's environmental consequences. Yet conditions in metropolitan areas in the United States may be the best indicator of the environmental quality of our lives. Many U.S. residents believe that those conditions are ...

Stormwater management: Quantity and quality

The water pollution control laws of municipalities, states and countries have progressed to incorporate advanced principles of hydrology, hydraulics, comprehensive planning and environmental engineering. In general, the purpose of these laws is to improve water quality and protect our natural ...

Monitoring values and practices of oak woodland decision makers on the urban fringe

Concern over oak woodlands has shifted away from ranch management towards residential areas. This shift has been accompanied by the involvement of decision makers who previously had little involvement with rangeland policies and practices. A survey of three recent Cooperative Extension workshops ...

Landscape management through integration of existing tools and emerging technologies

A landscape approach to forest management must consider the implications of alternative scenarios across stands and through time. The Landscape Management System, a computer program, facilitates implementation of this approach by integrating forest inventories, spatial information, growth models, ...

Transformation of a landscape in the upper mid-west, USA: The history of the lower St. Croix river valley, 1830 to present

Learning the history of a landscape is critical to understanding present land-use patterns. We document the history of landscape change in the lower St. Croix River valley from 1830 to the present. Significant changes in land use and cover have occurred during this time. Because of the convergence ...

Toward a theory of urban-rural migration in the developed world

This chapter seeks to identify underlying causes of change in the patterns of net migration between urban regions and nonmetropolitan areas that are common to most, if not all, of the developed countries listed above. A pervasive urbanization of the total society is the foremost of these causes. ...

Sense of place: An elusive concept that is finding a home in ecosystem management

" Sense of place" offers resource managers a way to identify and respond to the emotional and spiritual bonds people form with certain spaces. We examine reasons people form an increasing interest in the concept and offer four broad recommendations for applying sense of place to ecosystem ...

Saving the land that feeds America: Conservation in the nineties

Throughout its first decade, the American Farmland Trust (AFT) has led the successful effort to put agricultural resource conservation on the national policy agenda. AFT has had a major influence in the dramatic spread of state and local farmland conservation programs and has pioneered the ...

Rural envronmental planning for sustainable communities

RURAL ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING (REP) is a method used by citizens in small towns and rural areas to plan their own future. The area covered by a rural environmental plan ranges from a village of a few hundred people to a town with a population of up to ten thousand. The area may also be defined by a ...

Rural by design

This volume goes beyond the first book that our research team produced, Dealing With Change in the Connecticut River Valley, in several important ways. First, it supplies the reader with a great deal of substantive material on a broad range of subjects selected for their relevance to residents and ...

The role of local actors in transforming the urban fringe

In interpreting the transformation of rural space, much attention has been given to the marco scale processes shaping capitalist society, particularly those of accumulation and uneven development. Often, the role of the individual and of local agency generally is relegated to that of a pawn. ...

The religion of forestry: Scientific management

The guiding philosophy of the USDA Forest Service in the 20th century has been scientific management. Due in part to many failures of scientific management, and also to basic shifts in American values, this philosophy is no longer appropriate. The forest Service is left without any clear role. ...

The price for forest land on combined forest estates

Prices for forest estates, which also include agriculture land, a residence and outbuildings, were analyzed using a hedonic price model. Both productive and consumptive uses of the combined estates were considered. The statistical analysis was based on 198 sales in Sweden during 1992. The ...

The new forestry: An ecosystem approach to land management

Foresters on public lands often find themselves in tug-of-war situations. If they satisfy environmentalists who want to keep the land pristine, lumber companies are alienated; when government foresters agree to increase timber cuts, environmentalists are angered. Jerry Franklin, chief plant ...

Urban sprawl, land values and the density development

The character of the residential development occurring at the periphery of a metropolitan area has extensive and diverse economic and social implications. The kinds and prices of housing produced, the population groups served, and the cost and problems of providing public services are all ...

Urban-rural influences in U.S. environmental and economic development policy

Despite the fact that rural communities have the most to gain and lose in matters involving economic development and environmental preservation, they often are given the least voice in the political processes that create policies in these areas. Agendas are set, policies formulated and implemented ...

Recent population redistribution trends in nonmetropolitan America

This paper examines recent nonmetropolitan population redistribution trends and places them in historical context. Between 1980 and 1987, nonmetropolitan areas grew by 4 percent despite a slight migration loss. Metropolitan growth rates again exceeded those in nonmetropolitan areas during the ...

Public and private issues in nonmetropolitan government

Between the end of World War II and the early 1970s most Americans were preoccupied with conditions in the large metropolitan areas of the nation. Domestic social history during this period largely centered on events and crises occurring in these areas while domestic political history focused on ...

Prospects for a sustainable agriculture in the northeast

New opportunities for profitable production of specialized farm commodities have emerged in areas where agriculture was previously expected to disappear. Farmers in rural/ urban fringe areas who have retreated from production of low value staple commodities for mass markets have been successful in ...

Profiles of Midsouth nonindustrial private forests and owners

Information about the nonindustrial private forest (NIPF) and owner is readily available from many sources, but it often is presented in a manner that obscures differences and similarities between NIPFs and other ownership categories. This bulletin summarizes NIPF resources within the Midsouth ...

PNIF owner attitudes in the Midwest: A case study in Missouri and Wisconsin

Studies in Missouri and Wisconsin reveal that similar owner types exist in each area but the distribution of types varies, possibly in relation to regional differences in timber markets. Landowner attitudes and associated levels of forest management practice application offer directions for program ...

Planning the use of land for the 21st century

0NE scholar-policy analyst has declared, to much dissent, an end to history. The basis for his call is the incredible transformations we have witnessed around the globe in recent years: the end of communism in Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, and even China; the introduction of market capitalism ...

Planning for an extensive open space system: Linking landscape structure and function

Open space is a term used by landscape planners and landscape architects for land areas that are intentionally left unbuilt as fields and forests while the land around them is developed into buildings and pavement. When rural forested landscapes are developed, open space typically assumes a changed ...

Planning and designing for the multiple use role of habitats in urban/suburban landscapes in the Great Basin

Most researchers agree that preserving, creating, and restoring urban wildlife habitats has to be an interdisciplinary undertaking if it is to succeed. Ecologists and wildlife biologists must be key participants. The culturally modified context of most urban habitats suggests that landscape ...

Planners, plans and sustainable development

The land use planning system uses regulatory power to contribute to the management of environmental change. It is thus central to the contemporary environmental policy agenda. Several dimensions of the agenda have a long history in the planning system. Yet there is much which is new, both with ...

Exploring land use scenarios, an alternative approach based on actual land use

Land use scenarios should be able to describe land use as a result of changing biophysical and socioeconomic conditions, as well as the pathways of possible, future developments including feedbacks between land use and its drivers. Several approaches exist, to date, to develop regional and national ...

Environmental Change and land use planning

In this commentary I explore an issue of rapidly growing significance-the relationship between land-use planning and emerging concepts of environmental sustainability. I draw on a desk study of the planning policy implications of climate change and consider more general implications of the ...

Ecosystem services: Benefits supplied to human societies by natural ecosystems

Human societies derive many essential goods from natural ecosystems, including seafood, game animals, fodder, fuel wood, timber, and pharmaceutical products. These goods represent important and familiar parts of the economy. What has been less appreciated until recently is that natural ecosystems ...

Ecologically sustainable landscapes: The role of spatial configuration

People attempt to improve their well-being. The environment provides materials, but also constrains the effort. This interplay between human aspiration and ecological integrity is an underlying theme of sustainable development and of this article. Alternating changes over a long time span is ...

Dynamics of land use in fast growth areas

Land use and land use changes between 1961 and 1970 were interpreted from Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service (ASCS) 1:20,000 scale photography for 53 rapid-growth counties. In these counties, which experienced about 20 percent of the total U.S. population increase between 1960 and ...

Development versus the environment: The pinelands

 

Cultural landscapes and landscape ecology in contemporary greenway planning, design and management: A case study

The Appalachian Trail traverses 3300 km (2050 miles) of the Appalachian Mountains from Maine to Georgia in the eastern USA. Except for the Cumberland Valley (the Great Valley of the Ridge and Valley region of the Appalachian-Mountains) in Pennsylvania, and a few other valley crossings, the Trail ...

Changes in land quality accompanying urbanization in U.S. fast growth counties

Changes in the quality of the cropland base due to urban growth in l35 1970s and 115 1980s fast growth counties were investigated using paired point aerial photography and the 1987 National Resources Inventory. Land quality was assessed using the USDA prime farmland definition, LCC I-III, and ...

Application of a land use model for forecasting environmental change

The concept of ecosystem management has become the paradigm of natural management. One basic principle of ecosystem management is that the social dimension and ecological dimension should be integrated together as a whole system. Environmental and ecological impacts in human-dominated landscapes ...

Land use and landscape change in the Colorado Mountains I: Theory, scale and pattern

Residential and commercial land development quickened during the 1990s throughout the U.S. Rocky Mountains, especially in Colorado, increasing the pace and extent of regional land use and landscape change. Unlike previous booms in mining, cattle, or energy, the current development wave is driven by ...

Land use and land cover in global environmental change: Considerations for study

The centrality of nature-society relationships to the study of global environmental change has been increasingly recognized under the rubric of its `human dimensions'. Segments of the social sciences have long traditions of study on the interactions of society with the natural environment but the ...

Ozone potential damage and agriculture susceptibility in Milan

The present work is the practical application of an agricultural planning scheme, worked out in order to reduce the harm caused to agriculture by different levels of atmospheric pollution in a region, with special regard to ozone (O3). First of all, it is necessary to set up a primary data base, ...

Node-hinterlands relations and regional economic linkages in Florida: Some planning implications

Population growth, combined with related environmental, social, demographic, and infrastructural concerns, resulted in Florida's 1985 legislation mandating city and county comprehensive management planning. The recent recession and resulting state budget shortfalls have forced the state government ...

Green corridors: A discussion of a planning concept

Green corridors have frequently been used to provide a framework on which to base open space provision in town and countryside. Findings of a case study in East Cheshire in northwest England suggest that green corridors can play a strategic role as traffic free recreational routeways and as local ...

Forest alert

 

Focus group interviewing applied to retired West Virginia nonindustrial private forest landowners

To gain a deeper understanding of the interests and motivations of retired West Virginia forest landowners, the focus group interview technique was used with four groups of retired resident owners. This group discussion technique provided a deeper understanding of how this important group of forest ...

Changing attitudes toward timber marketing from NIPF lands in East Texas

Not all of the merchantable timber on nonindustrial private forests (NIPFs) is available to the market in the short-run. Some is controlled by people who are unwilling to sell. The conditions of availability may vary widely among owners. Sometimes sale terms are dictated by the buyer, sometimes by ...

A question of compromise? Case study evidence on the location and mobility strategies of dual career households

Drawing on in-depth interviews with 30 dual career households, this paper presents a framework for the study of, and selected evidence on, the key factors influencing the location and mobility strategies of a privileged and growing group of the population. The ways in which such factors are `traded ...

A land use and land cover classification system for use with remote sensor data

The framework of a national land use and land cover classification system is presented for use with remote sensor. The classification system has been developed to meet needs of Federal and State agencies for an up-to-date overview of land use and land cover throughout the country iii a basis that ...

Impacts of rapid urban growth on farmland conversion: Application of new regional land use policy models and geographic information systems

Geographical Information Systems (GIS) computer mapping programs and new land use policy models are shown to be useful in understanding the dynamics of rural land conversion to urban uses. The California Central Valley Alternative Futures Model was constructed to evaluate patterns of growth that ...

Identifying woodland owner characteristics associated with timber management

Discriminant analysis of 47 variables from a questionnaire mailed to 3,200 randomly selected woodland owners in Arkansas yielded models for the combined Ozark-Ouachita and Coastal Plain regions of the state the were nearly 80 percent successful in differentiating between timber managers and ...

The behavior of nonindustrial private forest landowners

Recent models of nonindustrial private forest landowner behavior have suggested that landowners seek nonmonetary as well as monetary returns from their forest investments. In this paper, landowners are modeled as maximizing utility, which is a function of income and nonpecuniary benefits. We ...

Sustainable development: How to make it work

Uncontrolled urban growth is probably the greatest obstacle to sustainable development in the United States. Cities are spreading over the natural landscape far faster than population increases or economic progress require, while older urban districts with their valuable infrastructures are ...

Nature as community: The convergence of environment and social justice

Addressing this question of the discrepancy between what does and does not count as "environmental" is, I believe, crucial to the effort to produce a broadly based environmental movement that really works. Part of this effort requires a close analysis and historical reading of how different groups ...

Likelihood of timber management on nonindustrial private forests: Evidence from research studies

Research on timber management tendencies by nonindustrial private forest owners, while sometimes conflicting, provides useful information to support policy analyses of timber supply and investment behavior. Numerous research studies regarding NIPF tree planting, intermediate stand treatments, and ...

Landscape structure and change in a hardwood forest-tall-grass prairie ecotone

Temporal changes in land use, vegetation cover types, and landscape structure were examined in a hardwood forest-tall grass prairie ecotone in northern Oklahoma using a Geographic Information System. Our objective was to examine relationships between human activity, changes in land use and ...

Landscape ecology: The effect of pattern on process

This brief overview demonstrates that a long history of ecological studies provides a basis for the study of spatial patterns and landscape-level processes. However, the emphasis previously was on describing the processes that created the patterns observed in the biota. The explicit effects of ...

Why we should care who owns the land

American land-use policy pays little attention to the question of land ownership. Yet, ownership patterns-in particular, the identities of the owners, the extent of the concentration of their holdings, and the ways in which the concentration changes over time-are likely to be enormously significant ...

Water and the Forest Service

Public concern about adequate supplies of clean water led to the establishment in 1891 of federally protected forest reserves. The Forest Service Natural Resources Agenda is refocusing the agency on its original purpose. This report focuses on the role of forests in water supply-including quantity, ...

Vegetation cover type and avian species changes on landscapes within a wildland-urban interface

Probability of occurrence of selected avian species was modeled as a function of modeled changes in landscape cover types in two landscapes to test whether (1) exotic and generalist avian species will continue to increase in an high density rural population landscape; and, (2) native grassland ...

An integrated ecological approach to agricultural policy-making with reference to the urban fringe: The case of Hong Kong

An integrated ecological approach to agricultural production, urban planning and food policy-making is examined in respect of the agricultural zone peripheral to large urban settlements. It is asserted that intensive agriculture at the urban-rural interface can reduce reliance on food imports from ...

An ecological planning model

In this article a model is proposed that could be used as a basis for ecological planning of natural resources. The role of people as part of the ecosystem is emphasized, and the various factors that should be considered in such planning are discussed. An understanding of ecological planning is ...

Toward a landscape ecological aesthetic: Methodologies for designers and planners

Landscape ecology involves the study of structure, function and change in landscapes. Landscapes, as defined in landscape ecology, consist of repeated groupings of interacting ecosystems which have a strong visual identity. In landscape ecology this sense of identity reaches beyond the concept of ...

The evolution of greenways as an adaptive urban landscape form

Over the past two decades, urban greenways, as a landscape endeavor, have expanded explosively. More than 500 communities, in North America alone, have greenway projects under way. Today's greenways reflect more than a current landscape phenomenon or fad. They are a response to classic human needs ...

Residential preferences and population redistribution: 1972-1988

In seeking to explain recent trends in population distribution, there has been increased interest in residential preferences. This study is a comparison of preferences based on 1972 and 1988 national surveys, years that bracket a period of considerable change in distribution patterns. Over time ...

The use of prescribed fire in the management of Canada's forested lands

Present uses of prescribed fire in Canada are reviewed. Fire has been a natural component of many forested North American landscapes for millennia, making it an obvious choice as an effective forest management tool. It can be used in harmony with known fire adaptations of ecosystems to be managed. ...

The use of prescribed burning as a wildfire prevention tool

Prescribed burning is often mentioned as a tool to prevent wildfires. Few data exist to support this premise. The purpose of this research was to show that prescribed burning. is an effective long-term wildfire prevention tool. The study used a descriptive historical research methodology. The ...

The urban wildland fire interface: Part I

Houses built in canyons and up and down steep hills covered with native vegetation pose a fire hazard from large wildland fires that run out of control. The threat is accentuated because the interface separating the two classes of inflammable materials is hard to recognize, has not been widely ...

Reexamining fire suppression impacts on bush land fire regimes

California shrubland wildfires are increasingly destructive, and it is widely held that the problem has been intensified by fire suppression, leading to larger, more intense wildfires. However, analysis of the California Statewide Fire History Database shows that, since 1910, fire frequency and ...

Rcognozing regional differences

There are a tremendous number of regional differences in the wildland/urban interface fire problem, although we also correctly speak of this as a national problem. It is indeed national because serious, recent losses of homes and lives have been reported from wildfires in Florida, North Carolina, ...

Prescribed fire versus air quality in 2000 in the Pacific northwest

In 1970, it was widely assumed that by 1980 in the Pacific Northwest, prescribed fire would be a thing of the past. By 1985, however, half way from 1970 to the end of the century, the area treated by fire increased. Now, the demise of forest burning is widely expected to occur by the year 2000. ...

Prescribed fire in the wildland urban interface [Brochure]

Prescribed fire does produce smoke and ash and the area may look unsightly for a month or two. Local residents can expect to experience these inconveniences for only a day or two about once every two to three years. But, the protection afforded by these prescribed burned areas is invaluable when a ...

Prescribed fire: Public education and perception

A sample drawn from the population of Tucson, Arizona, rated slides of forest scenes for scenic quality and acceptability for recreation. The scenes showed ponderosa pine areas that were unburned or had had light or severe fire 1 to 5 years previously. Participants also read brochures about fire ...

Prescribed burning regulations in Florida

Prescribed burning is one important tool available to land owners and natural resource managers for maintaining healthy forests and range lands. Significant regulatory changes in the last decade have greatly enhanced the opportunities for responsible use of prescribed fire. Proper training, ...

Effects of fire on Florida's wildfire and wildlife habitat

The rapid recovery of vegetation, the apparent ability for most species of wildlife to use recently burned areas, and the high-quality habitat provided during post fire recovery suggests that fire enhances habitat for most plants and animals in Florida. When considering the effects of land ...

Developing land in Florida with fire in mind: Recommendations for designers, developers, and decision makers

Florida's valuable natural landscape provides us with clean air and water, a diversity of wildlife, and beautiful surroundings. As more homes are built in Florida, it will be increasingly important to protect and enhance as much natural land as possible. Because fire is an essential ingredient in ...

Builder beware

Despite advancements over the past 12 years, wildfires continue to claim more lives and property each year, as demonstrated by wildland/urban interface fires in California, including the 1991 Oakland conflagration, the 1993 Laguna Beach fires, and the 1996 Calabasa fire, as well as major fires in ...

Benefits of prescribed burning

Vegetation management in Florida is critical to retain desired native ecosystems, to reduce the threat of wildfire, and to meet other management objectives. Strategies for effective management may include fire, chemical, mechanical, or grazing technologies. Each method has benefits and problems ...

Is Smokey wrong

 

People-fire managers must talk with them

Fire managers know the wildland interface fire problem is a "people" problem, but recognizing the problem and addressing it in ways that are apt to cause interface residents to change their behavior are two different things. The interface fire problem demands that managers deal with people in ...

Paradise burning: How to live with wildfire

 

Outdoor recreation and access to countryside: Focus on the Australian experience

The concept of countryside is elusive. To some the term defines "rural areas in which the humanization process is dominant, where rural landscapes are occupied and essentially man-made." Since human beings are the primary environmental agents, countryside must be distinguished from purely natural ...

Firescaping: An extra hedge from damage in dry, dangerous weather

A racing wildfire shows no mercy to whomever or whatever is in its path, and it respects no neighborhood economic boundaries as it performs its wicked dance of death. Plants in the way will literally explode. But landscape managers in at-risk regions can extinguish some of the likelihood of damage ...

Firescape: Landscaping to reduce fire hazard

Homeowners and landscape professionals can minimize the fire hazard by using the suggestions in the following pages. Key points to remember for fire safety are: • Minimize or eliminate highly flammable plants • Reduce chances for a "fire ladder" • Create a fuel break around your ...

Fire technical theme "Role of fire in a healthy forest/world"

Thoughts - J. Roberts: There is no "cookbook" solution that will cover all the questions that can be raised. My intent in this presentation is to show some thought process and problems/solution applications that have been learned through experience. If you come away with more questions about your ...

Fire problems in rural suburbs

 

Communicating with nonindustrial private forestland owners

Much has been written and a good number of surveys made to determine how the NIPF "problem" might be addressed. Although NIPF owners may not realize that they have a problem, foresters perceive it as a lack of active management, resulting in low productivity on millions of acres of privately owned ...

A plan for success in the wildland-urban interface

Damaging Wildland-urban interface fires are a growing, problem in America. In 1996. 774 families lost their homes to wildland-urban interface fires. We expect to heat of homes lost in States such as California that are heavily populated-and have frequent *wildfires. But the homes lost in 1996 were ...

A homeowner's guide to fire and watershed management at the chaparral-urban interface

Several guides and booklets have been written to help the homeowner deal with particular aspects of living in the fire-prone wildlands of the Pacific Southwest. Until now, however, none has given the homeowner comprehensive advice on managing his property effectively so as to reduce the chance of ...

A fire professional

Residential expansion into the wildlands affects the ability of state, local and federal agencies to redeem their fire management, responsibilities. Still, many fire managers ask themselves "should we be involved in community land use planning, is that an appropriate arena for fire agencies?" A ...

A case study of wildfire mitigation strategies in wildland/urban development

There are two aspects of development planning in Florida that are relevant from a wildfire mitigation viewpoint. For large developments that will have a significant regional impact, the DRI (Development of Regional Impact) process would allow for DOF assessment of the wildfire hazard. In the DRI ...

How prescribed burning affects wildfire occurrence

In 1959, an attempt was made to evaluate the effectiveness of prescribed fires in reducing the number, size, and intensity of wildfires in north Florida and south Georgia. Data were collected from 380 fires on 954,000 acres -for a 4-year period, 1955 to 1958, a span that included two bad fire years ...

Homeowner protection efforts can and do work

While no home is completely fire safe, all fire managers have seen examples of protection efforts that have paid off. Whether it was vegetation manipulation, thoughtful landscaping, fire-resistant construction materials, or placement of a home away from the top of a ravine, homeowners have shown ...

The boom in forest owners - a bust for forestry

Private forests are breaking into smaller ownerships. The largest parcels remain intact for now, but the acreage in midsize woodlots is shrinking and the bottom class is growing. As the size of their ownerships decreases, owners are less likely to see the relevance of forestry. Without significant ...

The 1993 U.S. wildfire season

 

Task force teaches the benefits of firewise landscaping

A firewise landscaping task force, sponsored by the National Wildland/Urban Interface Protection Program, is hoping to motivate people who own homes in interface areas to re-examine their landscaping and take precautions to protect life and property from fire. according to The Gale Wye newsletter ...

Structure ignition assessment can help reduce fire damages in the WUI

The wildland-urban interface (W-UI) refers to residential areas surrounded by or adjacent to wildland areas. In recent years, significant W-UI residential fire losses have occurred nationwide in the United States that have focused attention on the principal W-UI problem-losses of life and property ...

Spatially-explicit simulation of the effect of prescribed burning on fire regimes and plant extinctions in shrublands typical of south-eastern Australia

A spatial model was used to simulate plant extinction in relation to prescribed burning in fire-prone shrublands. Prescribed burning may be used to manipulate fuel to levels that are sub-critical for fire-spread in extreme weather. Effects of variation in area of annual prescribed burning on area ...

Mitigating fire risk to late successional forest reserves on the east slope of the Washington Cascade Range, USA

A fire-risk model was developed using a stand-structure approach for the forests of the eastern slopes of the Washington Cascade Range, USA. The model was used to evaluate effects of seven landscape-scale silvicultural regimes on fire risk at two spatial scales: (1) the risk to the entire ...