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6,200-Acre Prescribed Fire PDF 64
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elicopter ignition in this prescribed fire helps in the success of hazardous fuels reduction on a landscape basis.
Areas of Managed Forest Slow Northwest Flank of Rodeo-Chediski Fire PDF 86 KB
Completed thinning and slash burning projects in the Show Low area of the Rodeo-Chedeski fire in 2002 proved effective in changing fire behavior on this highly visible wildland fire.
Blue Ridge Urban Interface National Fire Plan Project And the Springer Fire PDF 522 KB
Thinning and prescribed burning directly related to saving more than 1,000 homes in 10 subdivisions in the vicinity of the Springer fire in May of 2002.
Bucktail Fire PDF 714 KB
Tree thinning followed by prescribed burning once again proves positive in slowing wildland fire spread and intensity.
Building Community Support & Commitment PDF 208 KB
Burning the Forests for the Trees PDF 210 KB
After nearly 80 years of wildland fire suppression, low intensity prescribed fires are reducing hazardous fuels while contributing to a mosaic of wildlife habitat.
Dixie Fuelbreak PDF 388 KB
The community of Dixie, ID adjacent to the Nez Perce National Forest will be more defensible in the event of a wildland fire in their back yard as a result of the defensible space project to reduce hazardous fuels in their back yard.
Dry Forest Mechanized Fuels Treatment Trials Central Oregon Intergovernmental Council and the USDA Forest Service PDF 411 KB
A variety of mechanized equipment has been tested for future use in removing small diameter materials from the forest to complete thinning work.
Ferron Reservoir Fuels Treatment Project PDF 1.1 MB
Private cabins and a campground on the Manti LaSal National Forest will benefit from fuels reduction treatments planned to keep any wildland fire 200 feet from any structures.
Fire Hazard Reduction Projects PDF 27 KB
The Mount Shasta community, adjacent to the Shasta Trinity National Forest, was made more fire safe by the defensible buffer constructed around the community.
Fuels Reduction Program PDF 635 KB
Residents in and around the Sherwood Forest Estates area have accepted the old adage "less is more" when it comes to hazardous fuels around their homes.
Hat Creek Ranger District Mastication Project PDF 623 KB
The Lassen National Forest's Hat Creek Ranger District cleans up their back yard in an effort to protect their private landowner "neighbors" from wildland fires.
Hazardous Fuels Reduction PDF 109 KB
Residents of the Grant Creek community chipped in to put hazardous fuels from trimmed from their neighborhood through the chipper.
Hazardous Fuels Reduction PDF 124 KB
Quality collaboration between Forest officials, local schools, and Oscoda community residents contributed to a successful hazardous fuels reduction project on the Huron Manistee National Forest.
Highway 20 Project and Cache Mountain Fire PDF 605 KB
Fuels treatments conducted in the vicinity of the 2002 Cache Mountain wildfire contributed to saving homes and reducing fire intensity.
Improving Habitat and Reducing Fire Risk PDF 237 KB
The East Bridge prescribed burn, ignited by a helitorch dropping blaming gobs of jellied gasoline oozes success.
Jupiter Inlet Natural Area PDF 362 KB
Kiosk and Canyon Prescribed Fires PDF 85 KB
Two thinning and prescribed burn projects were designed to clean up wind thrown trees from and windstorm and begin to return fire to a more natural role in the ecosystem on the Methow Ranger District of the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest.
Mammoth Lakes Fuelbreak PDF 415 KB
Two years of community planning show positive results in the Mammoth Lake fuelbreak project as the on the ground work is done in August of 2002.
Mapping Fuel and Fire Hazards PDF 87 KB
Remote sensing methods for fuels reduction are being studied and the Pacific NW research station.
Modeling Fuel Buildup Using Forest PDF 48 KB
Fuel conditions, vegetation growth and forest health pre and post wildfire are being studied by researchers at the Forest Service research station in Moscow, ID.
Modeling People's Responses To Landscape Treatments PDF 49 KB
National Fire Plan funding has contributed to a study on how the need for fuels treatments in the wildland urban interface relate to public perceptions about fire management.
Mt. Trumbull Ponderosa Pine Ecosystem Restoration Project
PDF 125 KB
Treating hazardous fuels and restoring fire to an ecosystem after years of fire exclusion can take partners years to plan and implement.
Pacific Creek Fuels Reduction Project PDF 81 KB
Past Hazard Fuel Treatments Reduces Intensity of Log Town Fire
PDF 85 KB
The Forest Creek hazardous fuel project proves successful in changing fire behavior of a wildfire that burned into the project area.
Ponderosa Pine Plantation Thinning PDF 466 KB
Thinning and mulching of debris will help reduce the impacts of wildland fire near Garden Valley, ID.
Prescribed Burn Clears Hazard Slash at Jack Wright Summit PDF 766 KB
Areas of Nevada, Wyoming, and Montana received hazardous fuels treatments through the use of thinning, prescribed fire and slash burning.
Producing Three-Dimensional Structural PDF 105 KB
Research stations across the country are exploring ways to use small diameter materials removed as a result of forest thinning projects.
Rapid River Prescribed Burn in Payette National Forest PDF 262 KB
A 2000-acre prescribed burn on the Payette National Forest meets all objectives.
Reducing Southern Hazardous Fuels PDF 95 KB
Reduction of Hazardous Fuels and Economic Opportunities PDF 172 KB
Researchers at the Wallowa-Whitman National Forests Starkey Experimental Forest are studying ways to use small diameter trees removed from forests during thinning projects.
Research in Smoke Management Helps with Hazardous Fuels Treatments PDF 85 KB
The increasing use of prescribed fire calls for increased study in the effects of smoke on air quality, visibility, and citizen respiratory ailments.
Rio Grande Riparian Forests PDF 213 KB
Hazardous fuel "ladders" were broken in a project designed to reduce the potential for crown fires.
Smoke Management and Prescribed Fire PDF 94 KB
Excellent coordination between fire managers, researchers, and air quality specialists completed the 8,000-acre hazardous fuels reduction prescribed burn with great success in smoke management and dispersion on the Pike San Isabel National Forest.
Snapshots: Successes of BLM Hazardous Fuels Projects PDF 182 KB
A variety of hazardous fuels treatments were carried out to reduce fire potential in the wildland urban interface.
Southern Regional Models Predict Smoke Movement PDF 129 KB
Researchers in the southeast are studying ways to lessen the impacts of smoke from prescribed fires to the wildland urban interface areas.
Squires Fire PDF 1.3 MB Initial observations of fuels treatment areas within the Squires Peak wildland fire and the fire behavior displayed significant positive results.
Stanislaus National Forest PDF 774 KB
More than 400 acres of wildland urban interface areas were treated for hazardous fuels on the Calaveras Ranger District of the Stanislaus National Forest.
Successes of BLM Hazardous Fuels Projects PDF 715 KB
Young and old alike were provided with numerous opportunities to learn about making their home and environment fire safe in Utah and Arizona as environmental educators head to indoor and outdoor classrooms.
Successes of BLM Hazardous Fuels Projects PDF 640 KB
Quality partnerships between fire managers at the federal and state level and private citizens prove successful in conducting hazardous fuels reduction projects in Colorado, Idaho, and Oregon.
The Blue Ridge Urban Interface Project and the Springer Fire
PDF 3.1 MB
The Jackson Mississippi, BLM Prescribed Burn Modules 104 and 103 PDF 745 KB
The Bureau of Land Management and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, nationwide, reduce the risk of catastrophic wildland fire to a variety of ecosystems and the wildland urban interface.
Tradition Housing Development and the Gopher Frog PDF 203 KB
New homes and frogs in the Glens Pond area of the DeSoto Ranger District in Mississippi are more fire safe after a series of prescribed burns in 2001 and 2002.
Utilization of Small-Diameter Curved Trees PDF 124 KB
Studies are under way for uses of small diameter "curvy" trees that are typically of low value and have little use.
Utilizing Small Diameter Materials and Old World Skills PDF 144 KB
Small diameter trees thinned from local forests are turned into pasture fencing this user-friendly to cattle, deer, elk, and small wildlife.
Warm Lake Natural Fuels Reduction Project PDF 444 KB
Thinning and prescribed burning around 47 cabins on the Boise National Forest completed to protect the structures from wildland fire.
West Ridge Project PDF 562 KB
The Idyllwild area of the San Bernardino National Forest receives expanded hazardous fuels treatments resulting in enhanced fire protection for the areas 10,000+ residents.
Wildfire Threat Forces Quick Action: CEQ Grants Expedited Environmental Analysis To Reduce Hazardous Fuels PDF 166 KB
Quick action by the employees of the Mark Twain National Forest and approval of the Council of Environmental Quality helped reduce the fire risk after an April 2002 tornado.
Wildland Urban Interface Fuels Reduction PDF 654 KB
Cabin owners near Silver Plunge resort on the Boise National forest benefit doubly from a recent Forest thinning project.
Yellow Pine Wildland Interface Project PDF 429 KB |
