Pacific Northwest Research Station

Title: Fuels and fire in land-management planning: Part 3. Costs and losses for management options.

Author: Maxwell, Wayne G.; Sandberg, David V.; Ward, Franklin R.

Date: 1983

Source: Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-158. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 23 p

Station ID: GTR-PNW-158

Description: An approach is illustrated for computing expected costs of fire protection; fuel treatment; fire suppression; damage values; and percent of area lost to wildfire for a management or rotation cycle. Input is derived from Part 1, a method for collecting and classifying the total fuel complex, and Part 2, a method for appraising and rating probable fire behavior. This approach can be used locally for fire management and in land-management planning.

Keywords: Fire management, fuels (forest fire), fire behavior (forest), fire planning, management planning (forest)

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Maxwell, Wayne G.; Sandberg, David V.; Ward, Franklin R.  1983.  Fuels and fire in land-management planning: Part 3. Costs and losses for management options..   Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-158. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 23 p.