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Potential operational delineations: new horizons for proactive, risk-informed strategic land and fire management

Year of Publication
2022
Publication Type

Background The PODs (potential operational delineations) concept is an adaptive framework for cross-boundary and collaborative land and fire management planning. Use of PODs is increasingly recognized as a best practice, and PODs are seeing growing interest from federal, state, local, tribal, and non-governmental organizations.

Professional wildfire mitigation competency: a potential policy gap

Year of Publication
2022
Publication Type

Studies show that effective strategies to mitigate the risk of structural damage in wildfires include defensible spaces and home hardening. Structures in the western United States are especially at risk. Several jurisdictions have adopted codes that require implementation of these strategies.

Climate and wildfire adaptation of inland Northwest US forests

Year of Publication
2021
Publication Type

After a century of intensive logging, federal forest management policies were developed in the 1990s to protect remaining large trees and old forests in the western US. Today, due to rapidly changing ecological conditions, new threats and uncertainties, and scientific advancements, some policy provisions are being re-evaluated in interior Oregon and Washington.

Risk Management and Analytics in Wildfire Response

Year of Publication
2019
Publication Type

Purpose of Review The objectives of this paper are to briefly review basic risk management and analytics concepts, describe their nexus in relation to wildfire response, demonstrate real-world application of analytics to support response decisions and organizational learning, and outline an analytics strategy for the future.