. Protecting and enhancing America's forests and rangelands : 1986 research accomplishments. Forests and forestry United States; Rangelands United States. Fire System Applications Research on fire weather, wildland fuel characteristics, and fire behavior has provided an array of operational systems and decision aids for fire-management personnel. Their jobs include (1) prepositioning firefighting forces and equipment on a national and regional scale, (2) designing fire-management organizations to meet local needs, and (3) devising fire-suppression tactics on individual fires. Two automated fir
. Protecting and enhancing America's forests and rangelands : 1986 research accomplishments. Forests and forestry United States; Rangelands United States. Fire System Applications Research on fire weather, wildland fuel characteristics, and fire behavior has provided an array of operational systems and decision aids for fire-management personnel. Their jobs include (1) prepositioning firefighting forces and equipment on a national and regional scale, (2) designing fire-management organizations to meet local needs, and (3) devising fire-suppression tactics on individual fires. Two automated fire behavior/weather-related systems are especially noteworthy: the National Fire Danger Rating System and BEHAVE. The National Fire Danger Rating System was designed to track relative trends in fire danger over broad geographic areas. This system uses local weather observations and forecasts with information about wildland fuel flammability to produce indices of expected wildfire occurrence and behavior. The system is used to preposition firefighting resources and plan fire-management activities by all Federal land- management agencies and more than 30 State and private wildland fire- protection agencies. BEHAVE, a system of interactive computer programs to aid in predicting fire behavior, is used in deploying initial attack forces to actual fires. It also makes real- time projections of a fire's perimeter to help managers make suppression decisions. Finally, BEHAVE assists managers in developing strategies and tactics for the controlled use of fire to attain specific management objectives. Operational use of BEHAVE during the 1985 fire season was credited with saving millions of dollars in suppression costs, structural losses, and forest resource damages—as well as human lives. The Forest Service projects combined cost savings attributable to these two research products of $3 million to $10 million annually, depending on severity of the fire Estimating the progress o
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