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Policy barriers to prescribed fire: identifying opportunities and mechanisms for change - Final Report to the Joint Fire Science Program
Prescribed fire is an essential management tool for restoring and maintaining the resilience of fire-dependent ecosystems. Past studies indicated that the current policy environment significantly constrained decision-making around prescribed fire (…
Author(s): Courtney Schultz, Cassandra Moseley, Adell L. Amos, Christopher Bone, Sarah M. McCaffrey
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Fire Earth: Understanding Support for Regulatory Approaches to Wildfire Management
Effective wildland fire management increasingly entails fostering shared stewardship of the landscape across ownership boundaries, and enacting collaborative strategies that require management responsibilities distributed among public agencies,…
Author(s): Alex W. Kirkpatrick
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The Human Dimensions of Spatial, Pre-Wildfire Planning Decision Support Systems: A Review of Barriers, Facilitators, and Recommendations
Decision support systems (DSSs) are increasingly common in forest and wildfire planning and management in the United States. Recent policy direction and frameworks call for collaborative assessment of wildfire risk to inform fuels treatment…
Author(s): Melanie M. Colavito
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Stranded land constrains public land management and contributes to larger fires
Wildfire activity in the western United States has been increasing since the 1970s, with many fires occurring on land managed by government agencies. Over six million acres of public lands are surrounded by private land and lack road access, making…
Author(s): Bryan Leonard, Andrew J. Plantinga, Matthew J. Wibbenmeyer
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A qualitative study on the US Forest Service's risk management assistance efforts to improve wildfire decision-making
To support improved wildfire incident decision-making, in 2017 the US Forest Service (Forest Service) implemented risk-informed tools and processes, together known as Risk Management Assistance (RMA). The Forest Service is developing tools such as…
Author(s): Courtney Schultz, Lauren Miller, S. Michelle Greiner, Chad Kooistra
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Experts’ multiple criteria evaluations of fuel management options to reduce wildfire susceptibility
Expert opinion can be a valuable tool for informed decision making. Concerning wildfire susceptibility reduction at the landscape scale, forest ecosystem experts play a key role in offering advice about appropriate fuel management practices to be…
Author(s): Ana Martins, Ana Novais, José L. Santos, Maria João Canadas
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Understanding support for regulatory approaches to wildfire management and performance of property mitigations on private lands
Formal regulation of private property and exploration of 'risk transmission' across ownerships are two popular means for addressing wildfire management at landscape scales. However, existing studies also indicate that a number of barriers exist for…
Author(s): Travis B. Paveglio, Amanda M. Stasiewicz, Catrin Edgeley
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Supporting a shift in wildfire management from fighting fires to thriving with fires: the need for translational wildfire science
Despite the increasing challenges wildfires are posing around the globe, and the flourishing production of high-quality wildfire scientific knowledge, the ability of fire science to impact knowledge on the ground, for people, society, economy, and…
Author(s): Fantina Tedim, Sarah M. McCaffrey, Vittorio Leone, Carmen Vazquez-Varela, Yaella Depietri, Petra Buergelt, Raffaella Lovreglio
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A Mixed Methods Literature Review and Framework for Decision Factors That May Influence the Utilization of Managed Wildfire on Federal Lands, USA
here is increasing discussion in the academic and agency literature, as well as popular media, about the need to address the existing deficit of beneficial fire on landscapes. One approach allowable under United States federal wildland fire policy…
Author(s): Stephen D. Fillmore, Sarah M. McCaffrey, Alistair M. S. Smith
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Fire Earth: We Need More Prescribed Fire in the Western U.S. to Mitigate Wildfire Risk
The western United States has suffered increasingly disastrous wildfires in recent years. Massive wildfires have attracted considerable attention from the media and policy makers, and have renewed calls to better understand and mitigate wildfire…
Author(s): Alex W. Kirkpatrick
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