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Executive Summary (2000)
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@MISC{Morrison00executivesummary,
author = {Peter H. Morrison and Jason W. Karl and Kirsten J. Harma and Lindsey Swope and Teresa K. Allen and Pamela Becwar},
title = {Executive Summary},
year = {2000}
}
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Abstract
Pacific Biodiversity Institute undertook a rapid assessment of the national fire situation during the summer 2000 fire season to shed some light on several questions of national interest: • What conditions contributed to the severe fire season this year? • Can anything be done to prevent similar situations in future years? • Would forest thinning and/or prescribed burning help prevent repeats of this fire season? To investigate these questions, we undertook a two-part analysis of fires that have burned this summer in the western United States. First, we analyzed the extents of all fires burning in the western United States (from July 4 to August 22) in relation to historic fire trends, land ownership and management. In the second part of our assessment, we conducted a landscape-level analysis of eleven of the largest fires that have burned this summer to gain insight on the overall fire situation. The fires that we chose have also received the majority of the media attention directed at wildfires. Our choice of this set of wildfires was based on overall area burned, wildfire containment costs and availability of data. Our analysis relied on existing information compiled by public land and fire management agencies. These information sources are referenced throughout the report. The National Perspective The current (August 30, 2000) nationwide wildfire-area total is approximately 6.6 million
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