Search Results - subject:"Prescribed burning"

Larkin, Narasimhan K.; O'Neill, Susan M.; Solomon, Robert; … - 2009

Smoke from fire is a local, regional and often international issue that is growing in complexity as competition for airshed resources increases. BlueSky is a smoke modeling framework designed to help address this problem by enabling simulations of the cumulative smoke impacts from fires...

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Evaluating Alternative Prescribed Burning Policies to Reduce Net Economic Damages from Wildfire.

Mercer, D. Evan; Prestemon, Jeffrey P.; Butry, David T.; … - 2007

Carlo simulations to estimate welfare changes from alternative prescribed burning policies. Using Volusia County, Florida as … a case study, an annual prescribed burning rate of 13% of all forest lands maximizes net welfare; ignoring the effects … on wildfire intensity may underestimate optimal rates of prescribed burning. Our estimated supply function for prescribed …

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Willingness-to-Pay for Prescribed Fire in the Colorado (USA) Wildland Urban Interface

Kaval, Pamela; Loomis, John; Seidl, Andrew - Department of Economics, Waikato Management School - 2006

information of respondents’ views towards wildfire management and willingness-to-pay (WTP) values for prescribed burning. Results … favor of using prescribed burning for fire risk reduction. They also are willing-to-pay an annual tax for prescribed fire … prescribed fire depended on perceived fire frequency intervals. The substantial WTP values for prescribed burning indicate that …

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THE USE OF BIOPHYSICAL AND EXPECTED PAYOFF PROBABILITY SIMULATION MODELING IN THE ECONOMIC ASSESSMENT OF BRUSH MANAGEMENT ALTERNATIVES

Schumann, Keith D.; Conner, J. Richard; Richardson, James W. - In: Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics 33 (2001) 03

growth simulation and economic simulation were used to evaluate a prescribed burning range management technique. Modeling … expected change in livestock returns resulting from prescribed burning. Stochastic analyses of production and price variability … produced estimates of greater net returns resulting from use of prescribed burning relative to the baseline. …

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Prescribed fire: the fundamental solution.

Saveland, Jim - 1998

The theory and practice that embodies "learning organizations" can be applied to developing and implementing effective natural resource policy and management. A learning organization is a group of people who are continually enhancing their capacity to create the results they want. At the heart...

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