IWJF - 20th anniversary year

             

A major benefit of IAWF membership is free online access to all published research. The third issue of the International Journal of Wildland Fire has as its feature paper "Accommodating non-market values in evaluation of wildfire management in the United States: challenges and opportunities." The article reviews wildfire-related non-market valuation literature, discusses the challenges of accounting for non-market benefits and costs of wildfire in wildfire management decision-support tools, and proposes a research agendum to support more efficient management of wildfire in the United States.

The following papers are in this issue:

• "Accommodating non-market values in evaluation of wildfire management in the United States: challenges and opportunities," Tyron J. Venn and David E. Calkin

• "Reducing fuels in the wildland-urban interface: community perceptions of agency fuels treatments," Eric Toman, Melanie Stidham, Bruce Shindler and Sarah McCaffrey

• "Community wildfire protection planning: is the Healthy Forests Restoration Act's vagueness genius?" Pamela J. Jakes, Kristen C. Nelson, Sherry A. Enzler, Sam Burns, Antony S. Cheng, Victoria Sturtevant, Daniel R. Williams, Alexander Bujak, Rachel F. Brummel, Stephanie Grayzeck-Souter and Emily Staychock

• "Numerical modelling of the aerial drop of firefighting agents by fixed-wing aircraft. Part I: model development," J.H. Amorim

• "Numerical modelling of the aerial drop of firefighting agents by fixed-wing aircraft. Part II: model validation," J.H. Amorim

• "Comparison of several kinetic approaches to evaluate the pyrolysis of three Mediterranean forest fuels," Virginie Tihay and Philippe Gillard

• "Simulating landscape-scale effects of fuels treatments in the Sierra Nevada, California, USA," Alexandra D. Syphard, Robert M. Scheller, Brendan C. Ward, Wayne D. Spencer and James R. Strittholt

• "Interactive effects of vegetation, soil moisture and bulk density on depth of burning of thick organic soils," B.W. Benscoter, D.K. Thompson, J.M. Waddington, M.D. Flannigan, B.M. Wotton, W.J. de Groot and M.R. Turetsky

• "The influence of wildfire extent and severity on streamwater chemistry, sediment and temperature following the Hayman Fire, Colorado," Charles C. Rhoades, Deborah Entwistle and Dana Butler

• "Physical, chemical and hydrological properties of Ponderosa pine ash," Emmanuel J. Gabet and Andy Bookter

• "Validation of remote sensing of burn severity in southeastern U.S. ecosystems," Joshua J. Picotte and Kevin M. Robertson

• "Fire danger estimation from MODIS Enhanced Vegetation Index data: application to Galicia region (north-west Spain)," M.M. Bisquert, J.M. Sánchez and V. Caselles

• "Fire ignition patterns affect production of charcoal in southern forests," Eric Oliveira Carvalho, Leda N. Kobziar and Francis E. Putz