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Fuels: Fuels References

Online Resources

Publications

Anderson, H. E., Aids to Determining Fuel Models for Estimating Fire Behavior, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Intermountain Forest and Range Experiment Station, 1982.

Andrews, Patricia L., BehavePlus Fire Modeling System, Version 5.0: Variables, Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, 2009.

Bradshaw, Larry S., Deeming, John E., Burgan, Robert E., Cohen, Jack D., The 1978 National Fire-Danger Rating System: Technical Documentation, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Intermountain Forest and Range Experiment Station, 1984.

Burgan, Robert E., Concepts and Interpreted Examples in Advanced Fuel Modeling, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Intermountain Research Station, 1987.

Keane, Robert E., Garner, Janice L., Schmidt, Kirsten M., Long, Donald G., Menakis, James P., Finney, Mark A., Development of Input Data Layers for the FARSITE Fire Growth Model for the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness Complex, USA, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, 1998.

Keane, R.E, Reinhardt, E.D., Scott, J., Gray, K., Reardon, J., Estimating Forest Canopy Bulk Density Using Six Indirect Methods, NRC Canada,  2005.

Keane, Robert E.; Mincemoyer, Scott A.; Schmidt, Kirsten M.; Long, Donald G.; Garner, Janice L., Mapping vegetation and fuels for fire management on the Gila National Forest Complex, New Mexico, CD-ROM, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, 2000.

Rothermel, R. C., A mathematical model for predicting fire spread in wildland fuels, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Intermountain Forest and Range Experiment Station, 1972.

Rothermel, R. C., How to predict the spread and intensity of forest and range fires. Gen. Tech. Rep. INT-143. Ogden, UT:  U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Intermountain Forest and Range Experiment Station, 1983.

Scott, J.H. and Reinhardt, E.D., Estimating Canopy Fuels in Conifer Forests, Forest Management Today. 62(4), 2002.

Scott, Joe H.; Burgan, Robert E., Standard fire behavior fuel models: a comprehensive set for use with Rothermel’s surface fire spread model, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, 2005.

Scott, Joe H., Nomographs for estimating surface fire behavior characteristics, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, 2007.

Stratton, Richard D., Guidebook on LANDFIRE fuels data acquisition, critique, modification, maintenance, and model calibration, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, 2009.

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