Forest Service Scientists Are Developing Fire-Weather and Smoke Prediction Tools: Where There's Fire, There's Smoke. Research Review No. 24, September 2014

摘要

Todays headlines highlight the problem that wildland fires have become in the United States, especially in the West. A century of aggressive fire suppression resulted in the growth of fire-susceptible forests in many places where fire-dependent and fire-resistant ecosystems had previously flourished. Complicating todays fire problems is the building of more communities and second homes in the wildland-urban interface (WUI), putting more people and their possessions directly in the path of fires.