Sentence examples for mitigate wildfire from inspiring English sources

There is ample evidence, although largely anecdotal, that surface, ladder and canopy fuel treatments mitigate wildfire intensity and burn severity and avoid crown fire in maritime pine stands.

In many regions, planned burns are implemented to reduce fuel loads and mitigate wildfire risk; increasingly, they are also used to achieve conservation outcomes.

In doing so, antecedents from the theory of planned behavior were employed to enhance our understanding of the relationships among wildfire knowledge, attitudes, subjective norms, perceived behavioral control, and intention to help mitigate wildfire in the WUI.

The emerging governance challenge to simultaneously mitigate wildfire risk and support improved conservation practices is reviewed in the context of pre-colonial and modern cultures within the peri-urban Mediterranean climatic region of South Australia's Mt Lofty Ranges.

Wildfires in particular have reduced the amount of late successional forests over the past decade, prompting land managers to expand investments in forest management in an attempt to slow losses and mitigate wildfire risk.

The current investigation sought to examine the association between knowledge of the causes of wildfire in the wildland urban interface (WUI) and intentions on the part of members of the public to help mitigate wildfire.

The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee holds a hearing on forest management to mitigate wildfires on Sept. 27.

Prescribed fires, in which controlled fires are intentionally set to decrease the fuels in a given area and to promote the health of fire-adapted ecosystems, can be used to prevent or mitigate wildfires.

The objective of this study was to evaluate how long-term fuel treatments mitigate wildfires and affect forest C. For the Lake Tahoe Basin in the central Sierra Nevada, USA, fuel treatment efficiency was explored with a landscape-scale simulation model, LANDIS-II, using five fuel treatment scenarios and two (contemporary and potential future) fire regimes.

The precision of wildfire forecasts needs to be improved, and understanding the driving forces of wildfires is of great importance for devising better strategies to mitigate wildfires and to identify at-risk areas (Finney 2005).

So-called fuels reduction is now the go-to strategy for mitigating wildfire danger: last year alone, the United States Forest Service spent more than three hundred million dollars on thinning out stands of trees close to residential neighborhoods and other at-risk areas.