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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)"”.
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The Economic Impacts of Cougars in Western Washington
… populations and the rising human population in Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) areas suggests that the number of human-cougar encounters will rise as well. The increase in human-cougar encounters creates potential issues in regard to public safety, public policy, and management of predators. For …
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Planning with Fire: Exploring the Barriers & Opportunities Surrounding Wildfire Fuel Reduction at the Wildland Urban Interface
… surrounding fuel reduction practices at the wildland urban interface (WUI). Development has expanded into the WUI across the country and rural communities are increasingly vulnerable to serious wildfire impacts. Through qualitative stakeholder interviews, case studies, and spatial analysis, …
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UTILIZING A HIGH-RESOLUTION CFD-BASED MODEL TO REPLICATE THE BURNING OF A TWO-STORY STRUCTURE IN THE MAUI WILDFIRE
The Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI), the area where structures and other human development meet with undeveloped wildland, grows by millions of acres per year in the United States. The WUI experiences unique challenges when considered in the realm of fire protection engineering, with potential fires …
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Wildfire Messages and Meanings in the Wildland-Urban Interface
… when it reaches our nation's ever-increasing wildland-urban interface (WUI) area. To address this issue, state and federal agencies and cooperative education programs have begun to promote homeowner responsibility and wildfire vulnerability minimization practices as a means for WUI residents …
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The effect of random and spatially explicit lightning and human-caused ignitions on simulated burn probabilities at small scales
… versus spatially explicit ignitions for wildland urban interface (WUI) areas and designated wilderness in the Rocky Mountain West, and infer whether one may be more useful than the other at small scales. We collected all available ignition data from logbooks, spreadsheets and the internet …
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The effect of random and spatially explicit lightning and human-caused ignitions on simulated burn probabilities at small scales
… versus spatially explicit ignitions for wildland urban interface (WUI) areas and designated wilderness in the Rocky Mountain West, and infer whether one may be more useful than the other at small scales. We collected all available ignition data from logbooks, spreadsheets and the internet …
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Two Post-Glacial Sagebrush Steppe Fire Records at the Wildland-Urban Interface, Eastern Cascades, Washington
… in large fires in the rapidly developing wildland-urban interface (WUI) areas of central Washington, where development intermixes with wildland fuels, contribute to federal firefighting costs exceeding of $1 billion annually. In addition, cheatgrass (<em>Bromus tectorum</em>) invasion and …
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Quantifying Burning, Heat Transfer, and Material Ignition of Smoldering Firebrand Piles
… pose a growing threat for communities along the wildland-urban interface (WUI) around the world driven by a changing climate and expanding urban areas. One of the primary mechanisms by which fires can spread in the WUI are firebrands, airborne embers capable of acting as ignition sources carried …
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Capitalization of Environmental Amenities and Wildfire in Private Home Values of the Wildland Urban Interface of Northwest Montana, USA
… has been increasingly tasked with protecting wildland urban interface (WUI) neighborhoods from wildfire. In addition to fire suppression duties, the Forest Service has attempted to mitigate the wildfire risk posed to the WUI through prescribed burning and other types of fuels reduction …
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HUMAN PREDATION RISK AND ELK BEHAVIOR IN HETEROGENEOUS LANDSCAPES
… in fragmented landscapes that result from exurban human development throughout western North America. This problem is increasing human-wildlife conflicts and represents a significant new challenge to wildlife managers. Elk hunting must be intensively managed, if allowed at all, to reduce …
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An Assessment of the Viability of LandScan Data to Estimate Structure Location in Wildland Fire Management and Planning
Research indicates firefighting costs in the wildland-urban interface (WUI) are highly correlated with the number of homes threatened by wildfire. Therefore, knowing the location of structures is paramount for planners and fire managers attempting to reduce the threats posed to structures by …
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Capitalization of Environmental Amenities and Wildfire in Private Home Values of the Wildland Urban Interface of Northwest Montana, USA
… has been increasingly tasked with protecting wildland urban interface (WUI) neighborhoods from wildfire. In addition to fire suppression duties, the Forest Service has attempted to mitigate the wildfire risk posed to the WUI through prescribed burning and other types of fuels reduction …
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HUMAN PREDATION RISK AND ELK BEHAVIOR IN HETEROGENEOUS LANDSCAPES
… in fragmented landscapes that result from exurban human development throughout western North America. This problem is increasing human-wildlife conflicts and represents a significant new challenge to wildlife managers. Elk hunting must be intensively managed, if allowed at all, to reduce …
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An Assessment of the Viability of LandScan Data to Estimate Structure Location in Wildland Fire Management and Planning
Research indicates firefighting costs in the wildland-urban interface (WUI) are highly correlated with the number of homes threatened by wildfire. Therefore, knowing the location of structures is paramount for planners and fire managers attempting to reduce the threats posed to structures by …
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Impacts of wildfire activity in the wildland-urban interface on environmental mobilization and bioaccessibility of nanoscale trace metals, The
… anthropogenic climate change. Wildfires at the Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI), regions where structures are intermixed with vegetative fuel sources, are becoming increasingly common, impacting thousands of people worldwide. The biological and environmental health risks of forest wildfires are …
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SOCIAL VALUES FOR ATTRIBUTES AT RISK FROM WILDFIRE IN NORTHWEST MONTANA
… efforts to protect private property in the wildland-urban interface (WUI) at the expense of other market and non-market attributes. Due to increasing development within the WUI, climate change, and excessive fuel loading from decades of successful fire suppression, it is likely that fire …
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SOCIAL VALUES FOR ATTRIBUTES AT RISK FROM WILDFIRE IN NORTHWEST MONTANA
… efforts to protect private property in the wildland-urban interface (WUI) at the expense of other market and non-market attributes. Due to increasing development within the WUI, climate change, and excessive fuel loading from decades of successful fire suppression, it is likely that fire …
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Mapping the landscape of wildfire risk mitigation: understanding the links between equity, community assets, capacities, and collaboration
… increased risk, as more people move into the Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) and climate change exacerbates hot, dry conditions that may help wildfires spread. Actions such as prescribed burning, hand or mechanical thinning, creating defensible space around structures, and home hardening can …
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Fire in My Backyard: Place Meanings and Landowner Views on Fire and Fuels Management on the Kootenai National Forest, MT
… fuels and ensuing increase in high-intensity wildland fire events across the western U.S. has led to growing interest in integrating local communities and their views and interests into the planning process for fuel reductions projects. One way to investigate local perspectives and make them …
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Fire in My Backyard: Place Meanings and Landowner Views on Fire and Fuels Management on the Kootenai National Forest, MT
… fuels and ensuing increase in high-intensity wildland fire events across the western U.S. has led to growing interest in integrating local communities and their views and interests into the planning process for fuel reductions projects. One way to investigate local perspectives and make them …