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Science
Delivery
Fuels planning: Science synthesis and integration. An
interagency research/management partnership to
support the ten-year fire plan in the dry forests of the
interior west
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Hayman Fire, Colorado
June 8-28, 2002
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Fuels Planning -- NEPA
• Timber management vs. fuels management
• 66 to 100 million acres of treatment needs
• Fuels project planning depends on access to the
latest scientific information
• Many fuel planning teams are not familiar with
current science
• Amount of scientific information increasing
– Core Fire Sciences
– Joint Fire Science Program
– National Fire Program
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Science Synthesis and Integration
• Sarah M. McCaffrey – NC
• Dave Peterson, Morris Johnson– PNW, Forest
structure and fire behavior
• Jamie Barbour, Roger Fight – PNW, Economics
and utilization
• Elaine Kennedy Sutherland, Ann Black – RM,
Environmental consequences
• Pam Jakes, Sue Barro -- Public understanding,
beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors
• John Szymoniac/Richard Kimberlin – NIFC, PSW
• Leslie Sekavic – Fire and Aviation -- NFS
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Products
• Fact Sheets
• Publications
– Journals
– General Technical Reports
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WEB based tools
Models
Annotated bibliographies
Summary
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Science Basis for Changing Forest
Structure to Modify Wildfire and Severity
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Science Delivery
• Data Quality Act
• Science consistency
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Peer and Policy Review
• Peer
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Blind
Independent
Contract
Timely
• Policy
– Timely
– Through
– Multiple levels
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Timely and Relevant
Technology Transfer
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