Large fires pose risks to a number of important values, including the ecology, property and the lives of incident responders. A relatively unstudied aspect of fire management is the risks to which incident managers are exposed due to organizational and sociopolitical factors that put them in a position of, for example, potential liability or degradation of their image as a leader. This paper ex...

Although the silvicultural use of prescribed fire has been researched for almost 70 years, new advances are still being made. These advaace~ are primarily the result of (1) a better under%andktg of fire as an ecological process and (2) the use of this knowledge to restore declining ecosystems, save threatened and endangered species, enhance natural beauty, and regulate composition and structure...

Complete List of Authors: Fraver, Shawn; University of Maine, School of Forest Resources Tajvidi, Mehdi; University of Maine, School of Forest Resources DAmato, Anthony; University of Vermont, Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources Lindner, Daniel; US Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Northern Research Station Forrester, Jodi; North Carolina State University, Department ...

USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station, Forest Inventory and Analysis Program, St. Paul, MN 55108, USA Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station, Forest Inventory and Analysis Program, Newtown Square, PA 19073, USA USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station, Forest Inventory and Analysis Program, Knoxvil...

Fire and rescue service is one of the fundamental public services provided by government in order to protect people, properties and environment from fires and other disasters, and thus promote a safer living environment. Well understanding spatial-temporal dynamics of fire incidents can offer insights for potential determinants of various fire events and enable better fire risk estimation, assi...

Frequent and intense anthropogenic fires present meaningful challenges to forest management in the boreal forest of China. Understanding the underlying drivers of human-caused fire occurrence is crucial for making effective and scientifically-based forest fire management plans. In this study, we applied logistic regression (LR) and Random Forests (RF) to identify important biophysical and anthr...

Despite documented benefits, the processes described in the new product development literature often prove difficult to follow in practice. A principal source of such difficulties is the phenomenon of fire fighting–the unplanned allocation of resources to fix problems discovered late in a product's development cycle. While it has been widely criticized, fire fighting is a common occurrence in m...

Associate Professor of Biology, Pomona College, Claremont, California, 91711. Abstract: Changes in rodent and avian community structure were documented for 42 months following a major fire in southern California chaparral. Rodent species richness, biomass per ha, and diversity reached levels equal to, or exceeding, those in 16 to 20 year old chaparral within 15 to 24 months post-fire. Heteromyi...

555 Abstract—The Wildland Fire Assessment System (WFAS) is a component of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service Decision Support Systems (DSS) that support fire potential modeling. Fire potential models for Mississippi and for Eastern fire environments have been developed as part of a National Aeronautic and Space Agency-funded study aimed at demonstrating the utility of NASA asset...

1.0 BACKGROUND By letters dated March 13, 1998, and March 12, 1999, PECO Energy Company (the licensee) submitted a response to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission's (NRC's) Request for Additional Information (RAI) dated November 14, 1997, related to Generic Letter (GL) 92-08, "Thermo-Lag 330-1 Fire Barriers," for Peach Bottom Atomic Power Station (Peach Bottom), Units 2 and 3, and Limerick G...