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A comparison of three approaches for simulating fine-scale surface winds in support of wildland fire management. Part II. An exploratory study of the effect of simulated winds on fire growth simulations

The effect of fine-resolution wind simulations on fire growth simulations is explored. The wind models are (1) a wind field consisting of constant speed and direction applied everywhere over the area of interest; (2) a tool based on the solution of the conservation of mass only (termed mass-conserving model) and (3) a tool based on a solution of conservation of mass...

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Jason M. Forthofer; Bret W. Butler; Charles W. McHugh; Mark A. Finney; Larry S. Bradshaw; Richard D. Stratton; Kyle S. Shannon; Natalie S. Wagenbrenner

Year:

2014

Keywords:

fire behaviour modelling, wildland fire decision support, wind modelling

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International Journal of Wildland Fire. 23: 982-994.

FARSITE: a fire area simulator for fire managers

A fire growth model (FARSITE) has been developed for use on personal computers (PC?s). Because PC?s are commonly used by land and fire managers, this portable platform would be an accustomed means to bring fire growth modeling technology to management applications. The FARSITE model is intended for use in projecting the growth of prescribed natural fires for wilderness...

Author(s):

Mark A. Finney

Year:

1995

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In: Weise, David R.; Martin, Robert E., technical coordinators. The Biswell symposium: fire issues and solutions in urban interface and wildland ecosystems; February 15-17, 1994; Walnut Creek, California. Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-GTR-158. Albany, CA: Pacific Southwest Research Station, Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture; p. 55-56

Growth, yield, and disease resistance of 7- to 12-year-old poplar clones in the north central United States.

Summarizes growth, yield, and disease resistance of 95 poplar clones at or near rotation age (culmination of mean annual increment). Plantations were established from 1986 to 1992 in Wisconsin, Minnesota, North and South Dakota. Clones DN164, DN177, DN154, NM2, NE264, DN170, and DN21 are recommended for further testing.

Author(s):

D.A. Netzer; D.N. Tolsted; M. E. Ostry; J. G. Isebrands; D.E. Riemenschneider; K.T. Ward

Year:

2002

Keywords:

Hybrid poplar, intensive culture, biomass yields, disease resistance, hybrid trials.

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Gen. Tech. Rep. NC-229. St. Paul, MN: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, North Central Research Station. 31 p.

Simulation of long-term landscape-level fuel treatment effects on large wildfires

A simulation system was developed to explore how fuel treatments placed in topologically random and optimal spatial patterns affect the growth and behaviour of large fires when implemented at different rates over the course of five decades. The system consisted of a forest and fuel dynamics simulation module (Forest Vegetation Simulator, FVS), logic for deriving fuel...

Author(s):

Mark A. Finney; Rob C. Seli; Charles W. McHugh; Alan A. Ager; Bernhard Bahro; James K. Agee

Year:

2008

Keywords:

Fire modeling, fuel treatment

Source:

International Journal of Wildland Fire. 16: 712-727

Field performance of Populus expressing somaclonal variation in resistance to Septoria musiva

Over 1500 trees from two hybrid poplar clones regenerated from tissue culture and expressing somatic variation in leaf disease resistance in a laboratory leaf disk bioassay were field-tested for 5-11 years to examine their resistance to Septoria leaf spot and canker and to assess their growth characteristics compared with the source clones....

Author(s):

M. E. Ostry; K. T. Ward

Year:

2003

Keywords:

Tissue culture, Intraclonal variation, Disease resistance, Tree improvement

Source:

Plant Science 164:1-8

Development of input data layers for the FARSITE fire growth model for the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness Complex, USA

Fuel and vegetation spatial data layers required by the spatially explicit fire growth model FARSITE were developed for all lands in and around the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness Area in Idaho and Montana. Satellite imagery and terrain modeling were used to create the three base vegetation spatial data layers of potential vegetation, cover type, and structural stage....

Author(s):

Robert E. Keane; Janice L. Garner; Kirsten M. Schmidt; Donald G. Long; James P. Menakis; Mark A. Finney

Year:

1998

Keywords:

fuels mapping, fire behavior fuel model, GIS, terrain modeling, satellite imagery

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Gen. Tech. Rep. RMRS-GTR-3. Ogden, UT: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 66 p.

A simulation of probabilistic wildfire risk components for the continental United States

This simulation research was conducted in order to develop a large-fire risk assessment system for the contiguous land area of the United States. The modeling system was applied to each of 134 Fire Planning Units (FPUs) to estimate burn probabilities and fire size distributions. To obtain stable estimates of these quantities, fire ignition and growth was simulated for...

Author(s):

Mark A. Finney; Charles W. McHugh; Isaac C. Grenfell; Karin L. Riley; Karen C. Short

Year:

2011

Keywords:

wildfire risk, simulation research, LANDFIRE

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Stochastic Environmental Research and Risk Assessment. 25: 973-1000.

A computational method for optimizing fuel treatment locations

Modeling and experiments have suggested that spatial fuel treatment patterns can influence the movement of large fires. On simple theoretical landscapes consisting of two fuel types (treated and untreated) optimal patterns can be analytically derived that disrupt fire growth efficiently (i.e. with less area treated than random patterns). Although conceptually simple,...

Author(s):

Mark A. Finney

Year:

2006

Keywords:

fire, fire ecology, fuels management, computational method, fuel treatment units, spatial input data, fire spread, fire growth

Source:

In: Andrews, Patricia L.; Butler, Bret W., comps. 2006. Fuels Management-How to Measure Success: Conference Proceedings. 28-30 March 2006; Portland, OR. Proceedings RMRS-P-41. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. p. 107-123

Simulation of Long-Term Landscape-Level Fuel Treatment Effects on Large Wildfires

A simulation system was developed to explore how fuel treatments placed in random and optimal spatial patterns affect the growth and behavior of large fires when implemented at different rates over the course of five decades. The system consists of a forest/fuel dynamics simulation module (FVS), logic for deriving fuel model dynamics from FVS output, a spatial fuel...

Author(s):

Mark A. Finney; Rob C. Seli; Charles W. McHugh; Alan A. Ager; Berni Bahro; James K. Agee

Year:

2006

Keywords:

fire, fire ecology, fuels management, simulation system, large wildfires, forest/fuel dynamics simulation module, FVS, fuel treatment prescriptions

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Continental-scale simulation of burn probabilities, flame lengths, and fire size distribution for the United States

Components of a quantitative risk assessment were produced by simulation of burn probabilities and fire behavior variation for 134 fire planning units (FPUs) across the continental U.S. The system uses fire growth simulation of ignitions modeled from relationships between large fire occurrence and the fire danger index Energy Release Component (ERC). Simulations of 10,...

Author(s):

Mark A. Finney; Charles W. McHugh; Isaac Grenfell; Karin L. Riley

Year:

2010

Keywords:

fire simulation, fire risk assessment

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In: Viegas, D. X., ed. Proceedings of the VI International Conference on Forest Fire Research; 15-18 November 2010; Coimbra, Portugal. Coimbra, Portugal: University of Coimbra. 12 p.

Survival and growth of deep-planted, in-leaf grafts in a germplasm repository of canker-resistant butternut

Butternut (Juglans cinerea L.), highly valued for its timber and nuts, occurs as widely scattered trees or isolated stands throughout the Central Hardwood region (Rink 1990). The introduced fungus Sirococcus clavigignenti-juglandacearum has rapidly cankered, girdled, and killed most of the butternut trees; however, a few trees that...

Author(s):

J. W. Van Sambeek; Michael E. Ostry; James J. Zaczek

Year:

2003

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In: Van Sambeek, J. W.; Dawson, Jeffery O.; Ponder Jr., Felix; Loewenstein, Edward F.; Fralish, James S., eds. Proceedings of the 13th Central Hardwood Forest Conference; Gen. Tech. Rep. NC-234. St. Paul, MN: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, North Central Research Station: 476-479

Long-term impact of shoot blight disease on red pine saplings

Damage from Sirococcus and Diplodia shoot blights of red pine is widespread and periodically severe in the Lake States. An outbreak of shoot blight occurred in red pine sapling plantations across northern Wisconsin, northern Minnesota, and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan in 1993. We established monitoring plots in red pine sapling...

Author(s):

Linda M. Haugen; Michael E. Ostry

Year:

2013

Keywords:

Pinus resinosa, plantations, Diplodia pinea, Sirococcus conigenus, multicohort stands

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Northern Journal of Applied Forestry. 30(4): 170-174.

FARSITE: Fire Area Simulator-model development and evaluation

A computer simulation model, FARSITE, includes existing fire behavior models for surface, crown, spotting, point-source fire acceleration, and fuel moisture. The model's components and assumptions are documented. Simulations were run for simple conditions that illustrate the effect of individual fire behavior models on two-dimensional fire growth.

Author(s):

Mark A. Finney

Year:

1998

Keywords:

fire growth modeling, fire behavior models, fire simulation

Source:

Res. Pap. RMRS-RP-4, Revised 2004. Ogden, UT: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 47 p.

Northwest Forest Plan—the first 10 years (1994-2003): synthesis of monitoring and research results.

It has been 10 years since the Northwest Forest Plan (the Plan) came into being at the direction of President Clinton. This report synthesizes the status and trends of five major elements of the Plan: older forests, species, aquatic systems, socioeconomics, and adaptive management and monitoring. It synthesizes new science that has resulted from a decade of research....

Author(s):

Richard W. Haynes; Bernard T. Bormann; Danny C. Lee; Jon R. Martin

Year:

2006

Keywords:

Northwest Forest Plan, northern spotted owl, old growth, forest policy, biodiversity

Source:

Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-651. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 292 p

Applying fire spread simulators in New Zealand and Australia: Results from an international seminar

There is currently no spatial wildfire spread and growth simulation model used commonly across New Zealand or Australia. Fire management decision-making would be enhanced through the use of spatial fire simulators. Various groups from around the world met in January 2006 to evaluate the applicability of different spatial fire spread applications for common use in both...

Author(s):

Tonja Opperman; Jim Gould; Mark Finney; Cordy Tymstra

Year:

2006

Keywords:

fire, fire ecology, fuels management, wildfire spread and growth simulation models, spatial fire simulators, New Zealand, Australia, Prometheus, FARSITE

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Incorporating landscape fuel treatment modeling into the Forest Vegetation Simulator

A simulation system was developed to explore how fuel treatments placed in random and optimal spatial patterns affect the growth and behavior of large fires when implemented at different rates over the course of five decades. The system consists of several command line programs linked together: (1) FVS with the Parallel Processor (PPE) and Fire and Fuels (FFE)...

Author(s):

Robert C. Seli; Alan A. Ager; Nicholas L. Crookston; Mark A. Finney; Berni Bahro; James K. Agee; Charles W. McHugh

Year:

2008

Keywords:

forest management, forest planning, growth and yield, vegetation dynamics, habitat modeling, carbon inventory, prognosis model, landscape dynamics, fire, fuels, climate change, economics, forest health

Source:

In: Havis, Robert N.; Crookston, Nicholas L., comps. 2008. Third Forest Vegetation Simulator Conference; 2007 February 13–15; Fort Collins, CO. Proceedings RMRS-P-54. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. p. 27-39

Hypoxylon canker

Entoleuca mammata (Wahlenb.) J.D. Rogers & Y.M. Ju (syn. Hypoxylon mammatum (Wahlenb.) P. Karst.) causes the most damaging canker disease of quaking aspen (Populus tremuloides Michx.) - Hypoxylon canker - in many areas of North America. A study by Anderson (1964) in the Lake States (Michigan, Minnesota and...

Author(s):

Michael E. Ostry

Year:

2013

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Source:

In: Gonthier P.; Nicolotti, G., eds. Infectious forest diseases. Wallingfork, UK: CAB International: 407-419.

Initial response of Arabis johnstonii Munz to fire

Arabis johnstonii Munz (Johnston?s rock cress) is a small herbaceous perennial plant endemic to the San Jacinto Mountains of southern California. It is considered rare by the California Native Plant Society and is a Forest Service Sensitive species. Three A. johnstonii occurrences grow within an area that the San Bernardino...

Author(s):

Marcia G. Narog; Christie J. Sclafani; Christina Escobar; Kate A. Kramer; Jan L. Beyers

Year:

2007

Keywords:

plant conservation, Arabis johnstonii Munz, Johnston’s rock cress, fire cage

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In: Barlow-Irick, P.; Anderson, J.; McDonald, C., tech eds. Southwestern rare and endangered plants: Proceedings of the Fourth Conference; March 22-26, 2004; Las Cruces, New Mexico. Proceedings. RMRS-P-48CD. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. p. 83-92

Fuel reduction treatments affect stand structure of hardwood forests in Western North Carolina and Southern Ohio, USA

Prescribed fire and mechanical treatments were tested at the two hardwood sites of the National Fire and Fire Surrogate Study (southern and central Appalachian regions) for impacts to stand structure. After two fires and one mechanical treatment, no treatment or treatment combination restored stand structure to historical levels. Burning alone had little impact on...

Author(s):

Thomas A. Waldrop; Daniel A. Yaussy; Ross J. Phillips; Todd A. Hutchinson; Lucy Brudnak; Ralph E.J. Boerner

Year:

2008

Keywords:

prescribed fire, thinning, overstory mortality, southern Appalachian mountains, central Appalachian plateau

Source:

Forest Ecology and Management, Vol. 255: 3117-3129

Variation in Septoria musiva and Implications for Disease Resistance Screening

A set of isolates of Septoria musiva differed in aggressiveness in hybrid poplar leaf disk and stem assays and culture growth in vitro. Clone x isolate interactions were observed in one of the stem assay experiments, but not in the leaf disk assay experiments. Random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) analyses were performed using 52 isolates of

Author(s):

K.T. Ward; M.E. Ostry

Year:

2005

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Source:

Plant Dis. 89:1077-1082.

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A comparison of three approaches for simulating fine-scale surface winds in support of wildland fire management. Part II. An exploratory study of the effect of simulated winds on fire growth simulations

FARSITE: a fire area simulator for fire managers

Growth, yield, and disease resistance of 7- to 12-year-old poplar clones in the north central United States.

Simulation of long-term landscape-level fuel treatment effects on large wildfires

Field performance of Populus expressing somaclonal variation in resistance to Septoria musiva

Development of input data layers for the FARSITE fire growth model for the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness Complex, USA

A simulation of probabilistic wildfire risk components for the continental United States

A computational method for optimizing fuel treatment locations

Simulation of Long-Term Landscape-Level Fuel Treatment Effects on Large Wildfires

Continental-scale simulation of burn probabilities, flame lengths, and fire size distribution for the United States

Survival and growth of deep-planted, in-leaf grafts in a germplasm repository of canker-resistant butternut

Long-term impact of shoot blight disease on red pine saplings

FARSITE: Fire Area Simulator-model development and evaluation

Northwest Forest Plan—the first 10 years (1994-2003): synthesis of monitoring and research results.

Applying fire spread simulators in New Zealand and Australia: Results from an international seminar

Incorporating landscape fuel treatment modeling into the Forest Vegetation Simulator

Hypoxylon canker

Initial response of Arabis johnstonii Munz to fire

Fuel reduction treatments affect stand structure of hardwood forests in Western North Carolina and Southern Ohio, USA

Variation in Septoria musiva and Implications for Disease Resistance Screening

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