This study will develop, evaluate, and compare methods or approaches to measure crown fuels and incorporate the crown fuel information into landscape-scale land use and planning processes.
Many land management agencies are exploring a wide variety of fuel treatments to lower fire intensities and severities and to restore ecosystems to historical conditions.
It is generally assumed that insect and disease epidemics, such as those caused by the mountain pine beetle, predispose damaged forests to high fire danger by creating highly flammable fuel conditions.
Fire research over the last four decades has identified surface fuel loadings as important variables for determining the behavior and effects of wildland fires.
This study will develop, evaluate, and compare methods or approaches to measure crown fuels and incorporate the crown fuel information into landscape-scale land use and planning processes.
Many land management agencies are exploring a wide variety of fuel treatments to lower fire intensities and severities and to restore ecosystems to historical conditions.
It is generally assumed that insect and disease epidemics, such as those caused by the mountain pine beetle, predispose damaged forests to high fire danger by creating highly flammable fuel conditions.
Fire research over the last four decades has identified surface fuel loadings as important variables for determining the behavior and effects of wildland fires.