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• 1. [Article] Community wildfire protection plans in the American West

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  Citation × Citation Citation Abstract Copy Title: Community wildfire protection plans in the American West Author: Abrams, Jesse, Ellison, Autumn, Knapp, Melanie, Moseley, Cassandra, Paveglio, Travis, Nielsen-Pincus, Max Year: 2015, 2014 2 pages Title: Community wildfire protection plans in the American West Author: Abrams, Jesse, Ellison, Autumn, Knapp, Melanie, Moseley, Cassandra, Paveglio, Travis, Nielsen-Pincus, Max Year: 2015, 2014 2 pages Close

• 2. [Article] Community experiences with wildfire : actions, effectiveness, impacts, and trends : results from two surveys in counties and communities affected by wildfire

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  Citation × Citation Citation Abstract Copy Title: Community experiences with wildfire : actions, effectiveness, impacts, and trends : results from two surveys in counties and communities affected by wildfire Author: Ellison, Autumn, Knapp, Melanie, Abrams, Jesse, Nielsen-Pincus, Max, Paveglio, Travis, Moseley, Cassandra Year: 2015 24 pages Title: Community experiences with wildfire : actions, effectiveness, impacts, and trends : results from two surveys in counties and communities affected by wildfire Author: Ellison, Autumn, Knapp, Melanie, Abrams, Jesse, Nielsen-Pincus, Max, Paveglio, Travis, Moseley, Cassandra Year: 2015 24 pages Close

• 3. [Article] Advancing Characterization of Social Diversity in the Wildland-Urban Interface: An Indicator Approach for Wildfire Management

  A growing body of research indicates that communities at risk from wildfire differ in terms of the local social context that influences adaptive planning, mitigations or collective actions. Less work has ...

  Citation × Citation Citation Abstract Copy Title: Advancing Characterization of Social Diversity in the Wildland-Urban Interface: An Indicator Approach for Wildfire Management Author: Paveglio, Travis B., Nielsen-Pincus, Max, Abrams, Jesse B., Moseley, Cassandra Year: 2017 A growing body of research indicates that communities at risk from wildfire differ in terms of the local social context that influences adaptive planning, mitigations or collective actions. Less work has attempted to document critical differences in that local social context across large samples. The research presented here explores a quantitative operationalization of an established framework for characterizing the social diversity of communities at risk from wildfire. We conducted structured interviews with key informants across nine U.S. states. Factor analysis, regression and hierarchical cluster analysis were used to characterize social context across communities and relate it to key informant evaluations of progress toward fire adaptation. Our results advance methods to systematically document how social context influences local wildfire adaptation by: (1) examining a preliminary set of quantitative key-informant measures for gauging social context across a range of WUI communities; (2) identifying related elements of social context that may collectively influence wildfire adaptations; (3) providing preliminary statistical evidence that highly related elements of local social context are correlated with expert assessment of local populations’ adaptations to wildfire; and (4) identifying differences in social context characteristics across a sample of western USA WUI communities. However, it also is important to recognize that the measures tested here serve as indicators of deeper conceptual understandings informed by in-depth case studies. Efforts to use these measures should be augmented with additional qualitative work and build from those deeper understandings by considering the complexity of local dynamics surrounding wildfire management. Title: Advancing Characterization of Social Diversity in the Wildland-Urban Interface: An Indicator Approach for Wildfire Management Author: Paveglio, Travis B., Nielsen-Pincus, Max, Abrams, Jesse B., Moseley, Cassandra Year: 2017 A growing body of research indicates that communities at risk from wildfire differ in terms of the local social context that influences adaptive planning, mitigations or collective actions. Less work has attempted to document critical differences in that local social context across large samples. The research presented here explores a quantitative operationalization of an established framework for characterizing the social diversity of communities at risk from wildfire. We conducted structured interviews with key informants across nine U.S. states. Factor analysis, regression and hierarchical cluster analysis were used to characterize social context across communities and relate it to key informant evaluations of progress toward fire adaptation. Our results advance methods to systematically document how social context influences local wildfire adaptation by: (1) examining a preliminary set of quantitative key-informant measures for gauging social context across a range of WUI communities; (2) identifying related elements of social context that may collectively influence wildfire adaptations; (3) providing preliminary statistical evidence that highly related elements of local social context are correlated with expert assessment of local populations’ adaptations to wildfire; and (4) identifying differences in social context characteristics across a sample of western USA WUI communities. However, it also is important to recognize that the measures tested here serve as indicators of deeper conceptual understandings informed by in-depth case studies. Efforts to use these measures should be augmented with additional qualitative work and build from those deeper understandings by considering the complexity of local dynamics surrounding wildfire management. Close

• 4. [Article] Economic effects of large fires : application to the Cold Springs fire

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  Citation × Citation Citation Abstract Copy Title: Economic effects of large fires : application to the Cold Springs fire Author: Moseley, Cassandra, Nielsen-Pincus, Max, Rishel, Branden Year: 2015, 2012 3 pages Title: Economic effects of large fires : application to the Cold Springs fire Author: Moseley, Cassandra, Nielsen-Pincus, Max, Rishel, Branden Year: 2015, 2012 3 pages Close

• 5. [Article] Impacts of the Woody Biomass Utilization Grant program in eastern Oregon

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  Citation × Citation Citation Abstract Copy Title: Impacts of the Woody Biomass Utilization Grant program in eastern Oregon Author: Davis, Emily Jane, Moseley, Cassandra, Lucas, Anne Mottek, Kim, Yeon-Su, Nielsen-Pincus, Max, Bilek, Edward M. Year: 2015, 2014 2 pages Title: Impacts of the Woody Biomass Utilization Grant program in eastern Oregon Author: Davis, Emily Jane, Moseley, Cassandra, Lucas, Anne Mottek, Kim, Yeon-Su, Nielsen-Pincus, Max, Bilek, Edward M. Year: 2015, 2014 2 pages Close

• 6. [Article] The Influence of Market Proximity on National Forest Hazardous Fuels Treatments

  The US Department of Agriculture Forest Service's focus on hazardous fuels reduction has increased since the adoption of the National Fire Plan in 2001. However, appropriations for hazardous fuels reduction ...

  Citation × Citation Citation Abstract Copy Title: The Influence of Market Proximity on National Forest Hazardous Fuels Treatments Author: Nielsen-Pincus, Max, Charnley, Susan, Moseley, Cassandra Year: 2012 The US Department of Agriculture Forest Service's focus on hazardous fuels reduction has increased since the adoption of the National Fire Plan in 2001. However, appropriations for hazardous fuels reduction still lag behind wildfire suppression spending. Offsetting fuels treatment costs through biomass utilization or by using innovative administrative mechanisms such as stewardship contracting are two approaches to stretching appropriated dollars further across the landscape. We use fuels treatment data (n = 8,451 locations) to ask how wood- processing infrastructure influences where and how much hazardous fuels treatments, biomass utilization, and stewardship contracting occur on national forests in Oregon and Washington. We found that national forest ranger districts that are relatively close in proximity to sawmills or biomass facilities treated more overall ha and more wildland-urban interface ha and used stewardship contracting on more ha than ranger districts further away and that there was a threshold distance for these effects (40 minutes). We also found that proximity to sawmills and biomass facilities influenced the location and extent of hazardous fuels treatments that incorporated biomass utilization or were administered through a stewardship contract. Our analysis suggests that to be effective at offsetting some of the costs of hazardous fuels reduction and treat a greater extent of the landscape, policy strategies may need to focus on supporting a network of wood-processing facilities that is distributed across forest-based communities. Title: The Influence of Market Proximity on National Forest Hazardous Fuels Treatments Author: Nielsen-Pincus, Max, Charnley, Susan, Moseley, Cassandra Year: 2012 The US Department of Agriculture Forest Service's focus on hazardous fuels reduction has increased since the adoption of the National Fire Plan in 2001. However, appropriations for hazardous fuels reduction still lag behind wildfire suppression spending. Offsetting fuels treatment costs through biomass utilization or by using innovative administrative mechanisms such as stewardship contracting are two approaches to stretching appropriated dollars further across the landscape. We use fuels treatment data (n = 8,451 locations) to ask how wood- processing infrastructure influences where and how much hazardous fuels treatments, biomass utilization, and stewardship contracting occur on national forests in Oregon and Washington. We found that national forest ranger districts that are relatively close in proximity to sawmills or biomass facilities treated more overall ha and more wildland-urban interface ha and used stewardship contracting on more ha than ranger districts further away and that there was a threshold distance for these effects (40 minutes). We also found that proximity to sawmills and biomass facilities influenced the location and extent of hazardous fuels treatments that incorporated biomass utilization or were administered through a stewardship contract. Our analysis suggests that to be effective at offsetting some of the costs of hazardous fuels reduction and treat a greater extent of the landscape, policy strategies may need to focus on supporting a network of wood-processing facilities that is distributed across forest-based communities. Close