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Saving the Forest by Reducing Fire Severity: Selective Fuels Treatment Location and Scheduling

In: Applications of Location Analysis

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  • Richard L. Church

    (University of California)

  • Matthew R. Niblett

    (University of California)

  • Jesse O’Hanley

    (Kent University)

  • Richard Middleton

    (Los Alamos National Laboratory)

  • Klaus Barber

    (US Forest Service Region 5)

Abstract

Wildfire is a natural process which can lead to a variety of conditions in a forested landscape, some quite destructive. Whatever the cause of a fire, no one questions that destructive fires often occur during certain weather events where litter (woody debris from trees) and ladder fuels are abundant. The US Forest Service has implemented a program to reduce litter and ladder fuels along with thinning of stands in order to mitigate the extent and severity of fires, especially in areas surrounding critical habitat. Fuels reduction/treatment plans are expensive and therefore must be planned over a period of years, often two decades or more. This chapter presents an application of a location-scheduling model which has been developed for the US Forest Service to determine when and where fuels treatments are to be implemented. The model itself is an integer linear programming problem, which has been embedded in a decision support system called iFASST. This modeling system is quite flexible, and because of its flexibility has now been used in many of the National Forests in California.

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  • Richard L. Church & Matthew R. Niblett & Jesse O’Hanley & Richard Middleton & Klaus Barber, 2015. "Saving the Forest by Reducing Fire Severity: Selective Fuels Treatment Location and Scheduling," International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, in: H. A. Eiselt & Vladimir Marianov (ed.), Applications of Location Analysis, edition 1, chapter 7, pages 173-190, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:isochp:978-3-319-20282-2_7
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-20282-2_7
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