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Effects of fuels treatment on wildfire severity
| Author: |
Omi, Philip N.; Martinson, Erik J. |
| Date: |
2002 |
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Submitted to the Joint Fire Science Program Governing Board; 25 March 2002. 36 p |
| Abstract: |
We 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. All treatments were accomplished less than 10 years prior to wildfire occurrence. The historic fire regime of all sampled ecosystems was of the short fire return interval type and included Mississippi slash pine, California Douglas-fir, and ponderosa pine in Colorado and New Mexico. |
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