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Fuel Treatments & Effects
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Fuels
NRFSN number: 12724
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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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Rhodes, Jonathan J.; William L. Baker. 2008. Fire probability, fuel treatment effectiveness and ecological tradeoffs in Western U.S. public forests. The Open Forest Science Journal. 1: 1-7.
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