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Costs of mechanical fuel reduction treatments

Mechanical fuel treatments are machine activities designed to change the size and arrangement of forest biomass by either severing stems and creating smaller fragments (mastication) or by removing these stems from the site (bundling, baling, biomass harvesting) for disposal or utilization. Cost of mechanical fuel reduction treatments is defined as the money spent in...

Author(s):

Mitchell Dana; Smidt Mathew.

Year:

2019

Keywords:

mulching, mastication, fuel loading

Source:

Encyclopedia of Wildfires and Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) Fires. Springer, Cham.

Do fuel treatments in U.S. national forests reduce wildfire suppression costs and property damage?

This article tests two hypotheses on whether forest fuel reduction treatments (prescribed burning and mechanical methods) reduce wildfire suppression costs and property damages. Data were collected on fuel treatments, fire suppression costs, and property damage associated with wildfires in United States National Forests over a five-year period throughout the...

Author(s):

J. Sánchez; J. Loomis; A. González-Cabán; D. Rideout; R. Reich

Year:

2019

Keywords:

mechanical fuel reduction, prescribed burning, wildfires, wildland–urban interface

Source:

Journal of Natural Resources Policy Research. 9(1): 42-73

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Do fuel treatments in U.S. national forests reduce wildfire suppression costs and property damage?

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