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Showing 1 to 20 of 41 for “"wildland-urban interface"”.
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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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Private Property Owner Regard of Hazard Fuel Mitigation in the Wildland Urban Interface
… and the protection of property from a future wildland fire. These incentives included enhancing the aesthetic appearance to a property and dealing with general hazards from a mountain pine beetle infestation. In relation to hazard fuel mitigation, property owners spoke about values that …
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Private Property Owner Regard of Hazard Fuel Mitigation in the Wildland Urban Interface
… and the protection of property from a future wildland fire. These incentives included enhancing the aesthetic appearance to a property and dealing with general hazards from a mountain pine beetle infestation. In relation to hazard fuel mitigation, property owners spoke about values that …
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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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Shoot Flammability Patterns in Urban Plants at the Wildland-Urban Interface of the Greater Sydney Region
… poses a great risk to populations living at the wildland urban interface. Gardens and street trees in these areas are often what bridges wildland areas to the urban environment. This thesis aimed to determine the flammability of common native and exotic garden and street tree species to the …
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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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A cost effectiveness analysis of preventative mitigation options for wildland urban interface homes threatened by wildfire
… probability results from an ecological disturbance model (SIMPPLLE). Analysis of western Montana study area data reveal that nearly all of the structure ignition probability results modeled with extreme wildfire weather for visited homes are 1.0. This contrasts the low probabilities (0-0.05) …
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A cost effectiveness analysis of preventative mitigation options for wildland urban interface homes threatened by wildfire
… probability results from an ecological disturbance model (SIMPPLLE). Analysis of western Montana study area data reveal that nearly all of the structure ignition probability results modeled with extreme wildfire weather for visited homes are 1.0. This contrasts the low probabilities (0-0.05) …
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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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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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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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Collaborative Interface Modeling of Fuel Wood Harvesting Practices: Residential NIPF Landowners of the Jefferson National Forest Wildland/Urban Interface, Montgomery County, Virginia
… private forest (NIPF) owners within the Wildland/Urban interface are an increasingly important forest owner demographic. An increase in rural residential land use is fragmenting historically large contiguous forestlands. Consequently resource management has become decentralized. …
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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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Examining the effectiveness of online wildland firefighting education for structural firefighters
… throughout the United States often respond to wildland fires in the Wildland/Urban Interface, the National Fire Academy developed an online educational curriculum to train structural firefighters in the basics of wildland fire fighting tactics. This training has been available for 18 months and …
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Wildfire and development : why stronger links to land-use planning are needed to save lives, protect property, and minimize economic risk
… along the Colorado Front Range has expanded the wildland-urban interface-the area where homes and vegetation mix. This area, known as the WUI, is at high risk of wildfires. Wildfire risk is based on both natural conditions, such as invasive species and climate change, and human development …
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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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A geospatial tool for assessing potential wildland fire risk in central Texas.
Wildland fires in the United States are not always confined to wilderness areas. The growth of population centers and housing developments in wilderness areas has blurred the boundaries between rural and urban. This merger of human development and natural landscape is known in the wildland fire …
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Fired Up: Scales of Safety and Federal Wildland Fire Management in the U.S.
The wildland fire environment in the U.S. is becoming increasingly complex due to a century of fire suppression policies, development in wildland-urban interface areas, and an expected increase in fire activity due to climate change. As more attention is focused on wildfire management, the role of …
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Effects of prescribed burning, mechanical and chemical treatments to curtail rhododendron dominance and reduce wildfire fuel loads
… for dangerous fuel conditions around suburban structures near the wildland-urban interface. The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of seven silvicultural treatments on both the fuel loading within an R. maximum thicket and the control of R. maximum as a forest weed. The …
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