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Managing Wildfire Risk in Fire-Prone Landscapes: How Are Private Landowners Contributing?
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The fire-prone landscapes include both public and private lands. Wildfire burns indiscriminately across property boundaries, which means that the way potential fuels are managed on one piece of property can affect wildfire risk on neighboring lands. KeY FINdINGS
• Private forest landowners who perceive great fire risk or are concerned about hazardous fuel conditions on nearby public lands are more likely to reduce fuels on their properties and cooperate with public agencies on fuel reduction.
• Most private landowners surveyed reduce fuel independently, rather than in cooperation with others, primarily because of distrust and social norms about private property ownership.
• Forest owners who live on a forested parcel of land are much more likely to reduce fuels on that parcel than are owners who maintain residences elsewhere.
• Limited opportunity to offset the costs of fuel reduction (e.g., with public incentive programs or income from markets for logs and wood products) poses greater constraints to fuel reduction by private forest owners than does lack of knowledge or skills.
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Managing Wildfire Risk in Fire-Prone Landscapes: How Are Private Landowners Contributing?
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The fire-prone landscapes of the West
include both public and private lands.
Wildfire burns indiscriminately across
property boundaries, which means that the
way potential fuels are managed on one
piece of property can affect wildfire risk
on neighboring lands.
Paige Fischer and Susan Charnley,
social scientists with the Pacific Northwest
Research Station, surveyed private
landowners in eastern Oregon to learn
how they perceive fire risk on their land
and what they do, if anything, to reduce
that risk. The scientists found that owners
who live on a forested parcel are much
more likely to reduce fuels than are those
who live elsewhere. Private forest owners
are aware of fire risk and knowledgeable
about methods for reducing fuels, but
are constrained by the costs and technical
challenges of protecting large acreages of
forested land. Despite the collective benefits
of working cooperatively, most of these
owners reduce hazardous fuels on their
land independently, primarily because of
their distrust about working with others,
and because of social norms associated
with private property ownership.
These results provide guidance for developing
more effective fuel reduction programs
that accommodate the needs and
preferences of private forest landowners.
The findings also indicate the potential
benefits of bringing landowners into collective
units to work cooperatively, raising
awareness about landscape-scale fire
risk, and promoting strategies for an “alllands”
approach to reducing wildfire risk
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Mapping Fires Across the Southeast-Science to Solutions
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The Southeast fire map (SE FireMap), funded by NRCS and managed by Working Lands for Wildlife staff, aims to develop a fire tracking map to allow for improved decision making.
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Mapping our Rivers in High Definition
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A project video produced by Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency (TWRA) for Trutta Consulting LLC High Definition Stream Survey (HDSS) of the Caney Fork River below Center Hill Dam. The project was supported by the Cumberland Chapter of Trout Unlimited, Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation and TWRA. We also worked with TWRA fisheries sampling crew to video and GPS their trout surveys that were completed at the same time as the HDSS project. This allows us to see the conditions that the fish were captured and determine what areas of the river are best for trout at different flow conditions.
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