Bureau of Business and Economic Research, Fire Hazard
FOREST INDUSTRY
- Industry Outlook
- Regional Reports
- Fire Hazard
- Log Prices/Logging Costs
- Wages and Production
- Timber Capacity
- Logging Utilization
- Biomass Research
Contact:
Todd Morgan
Director Forest Industry Research
Jason Brandt
Assistant Director Forest Industry Research
CONTACT
Bureau of Business and
Economic Research
School of Business Administration
Gallagher Business Building,
Suite 231
32 Campus Drive #6840
Missoula, MT 9812-6340
Patrick Barkey
Bureau Director
Larry Gianchetta
Business School Dean
FIRE HAZARD
The summer of 2000 emphasized the ecological, social, and economic impacts that severe wildfires can create in Montana and elsewhere in the West. Increasingly, the public and elected officials are searching for management actions that can effectively and efficiently reduce fire hazard and restore sustainable ecological conditions in western forests.
These strategic assessments of fire hazard in Montana and New Mexico are the first of their kind. Utilizing Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) data and current forest growth and fire hazard models-Forest Vegetation Simulator (FVS) and the Fire and Fuels Extension (FFE), respectively-researchers were able to describe and quantify forest and fire hazard conditions at the statewide level. The reports also include analyses of the effectiveness and cost efficiency of various hazard reduction treatments.
The research was conducted jointly by faculty at the College of Forestry and Conservation and Bureau of Business and Economic Research at The University of Montana, as part of the cooperative National Joint Fire Sciences Program project “Assessing the Need, Costs, and Potential Benefits of Fire and Mechanical Treatments to Reduce Fire Hazard.”
Our Cooperators Include
College of Forestry and Conservation, The University of Montana, Missoula MT.
USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. Forestry Sciences, Missoula, MT.
USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Inventory Monitoring and Evaluation Program, Ogden, UT.
USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, Portland, OR.
Forest Products Department, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID.
Fire Reports
These strategic assessments of fire hazard in Montana and New Mexico are the first of their kind. Utilizing Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) data and current forest growth and fire hazard models-Forest Vegetation Simulator (FVS) and the Fire and Fuels Extension (FFE), respectively-researchers were able to describe and quantify forest and fire hazard conditions at the statewide level. The reports also include analyses of the effectiveness and cost efficiency of various hazard reduction treatments.
The research was conducted jointly by faculty at the College of Forestry and Conservation and Bureau of Business and Economic Research at The University of Montana, as part of the cooperative National Joint Fire Sciences Program project “Assessing the Need, Costs, and Potential Benefits of Fire and Mechanical Treatments to Reduce Fire Hazard.”
College of Forestry and Conservation, The University of Montana, Missoula MT.
USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. Forestry Sciences, Missoula, MT.
USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Inventory Monitoring and Evaluation Program, Ogden, UT.
USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, Portland, OR.
Forest Products Department, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID.
Fire Reports
- Montana Challenge: Forest Management and the Forest Products Industry
- Montana Challenge Presentation
- Fire Report for Montana
- Fire Report for New Mexico
- Impacts of the 2000 wildfires on Montana's forest industry employment
- Wildfire in Montana: Potential hazard reduction and economic effects of a strategic treatment program