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Flagstaff
Interface Treatment Prescription
Results
in the Wildland/Urban Interface
by
Allen Farnsworth and Paul Summerfelt
Abstract
Over the past five years, fire managers in the Flagstaff
Wildland/Urban Interface have developed a system of
socially welcomed fuel reduction treatments that have
proven effective in reducing wildfire hazard, improving
probability for successful initial attack, maintaining
and enhancing vegetative diversity, and initiating improvement
of overall forest health. The long term objective of
the program is to facilitate stewardship of forested
properties within the interface, regardless of ownership
or jurisdiction.
The
Flagstaff Interface Treatment Prescription incorporates
not only forestry and fire science but also community
and neighborhood input as vital components in successfully
developing, implementing, and maintaining the treatments.
With several thousand acres now treated, other benefits
and lessons have been noted as well.
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Allen
Farnsworth is the Prescribed Fire Specialist with the
Coconino National Forest.
Paul Summerfelt is the Fuel Management Officer with
the Flagstaff Fire Department.
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