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This
course teaches students to analyze project level fire/fuels situations.
Attendees will utilize existing fuels conditions and predict created fuels
based on a projected activity. Students will then evaluate, under specified
weather conditions, expected fire behavior and fire effects. They will
conduct such an analysis under the NEPA model for producing a project level
planning document.
The competencies for the Fuels Analysis Techniques class are:
1.
Identify how fire acts as a disturbance and interacts with basic ecological
process and stand development.
2.
Predict the amount and character of debris generated from a management
activity or natural event.
3.
Ascertain percentile weather for use in fuels analysis using FireFamilyPlus
and historic fire record data.
4.
Determine fire behavior characteristics based on existing and predicted
fuels.
5.
Identify changes to fuel profiles based on fuel treatment methods.
6.
Determine the likelihood of crown fire initiation and propagation.
7.
Determine first order fire effects associated with a fuel and fire behavior
condition.
8.
Identify the basic elements of, and essential points at which fuel and fire
management information is used in, NEPA analysis.
9.
Provide quantified values for the essential points of a NEPA-based project
level fire/fuels analysis.
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