Prescribed Fire: The Influence of Site Visits on Citizen Attitudes

Toman, Eric; Shindler, Bruce; Reed, Michelle

doi:10.3200/joee.35.3.13-33

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“…Only one study, Weisshaupt et al (2005), had a significant focus on smoke while in a number of others, smoke was mentioned as just one of many considerations in how study participants thought about fuels management (Bell and Oliveras 2006, Carroll et al 2004, McFarlane et al 2007). For the majority of studies, smoke issues were examined through one to three specific questions, generally in relation to prescribed fire, among a larger set of questions about fire and fuels management (Blanchard and Ryan 2007, Bowker et al 2008, Brunson and Evans 2005, Brunson and Shindler 2004, Jacobson et al 2001, Loomis et al 2001, McCaffrey 2004, Ryan and Wamsley 2008, Shindler and Toman 2003, Toman et al 2004, Vogt et al 2005). …”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In fact, study participants often indicate that they expect the treatment to improve rather than detract from a particular value (e.g., restore natural conditions, improve habitat or scenery) (Blanchard and Ryan 2007, Brunson and Shindler 2004, Fischer 2011, McGee 2011, Toman et al 2004, Vaske et al 2007, Vining and Merrick 2008). The influence of outcomes on acceptance appears to be shaped by local context as studies generally find inconsistent associations between a specific outcome and support (or lack thereof) for a treatment: when there are significant associations, they vary across studies and across study sites.…”

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“…For instance, in California, tours of fuels treatments had a positive effect on views of prescribed fire and a strong negative effect on views of untreated landscapes but did not affect views of mechanical treatments ). In two separate Oregon studies, field tours were found to increase support for both thinning (Toman et al 2008) and prescribed fire (Toman et al 2004(Toman et al , 2008) .…”

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Research perspectives on the public and fire management: a synthesis of current social science on eight essential questions

McCaffrey¹,

Olsen²

2012

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As part of a Joint Fire Science Program project, a team of social scientists reviewed existing fire social science literature to develop a targeted synthesis of scientific knowledge on the following questions: 1. What is the public's understanding of fire's role in the ecosystem? 2. Who are trusted sources of information about fire? 3. What are the public's views of fuels reduction methods, and how do those views vary depending on citizens' location in the wildland-urban interface or elsewhere? 4. What is the public's understanding of smoke effects on human health, and what shapes the public's tolerance for smoke? 5. What are homeowners' views of their responsibilities for home and property protection and mitigation, e.g., defensible space measures? 6. What role does human health and safety play in the public's perceptions of fire and fire management? 7. What are the public's views on the role and importance of costs in wildfire incident response decisions? 8. To the extent that information is available, how do findings differ among ethnic and cultural groups, and across regions of the country?Despite limited fire research specific to the questions on costs, and human health and safety, common findings on all these interrelated topics are summarized in this document. Research has found that the public has a fairly sophisticated understanding of fire's ecological role and the environmental factors that can increase fire risk. The public obtains information on fire from a wide variety of sources, but findings consistently show that interactive information sources are both generally preferred and more effective than unidirectional sources. As a way to improve ecosystem health and reduce fire risk, active land management generally has greater citizen support than a no-action alternative. Most respondents accept the practice of prescribed fire for active forest management and tolerate the accompanying smoke; in contrast, smoke is a highly salient issue for households with health concerns. The public tends to see mitigating the fire risk as a shared responsibility with landowners, whether public or private, responsible for taking appropriate action on their own property. Cost figures in to citizens' decisionmaking about actions to protect property before a wildfire but may be less of a priority during incident response. Except for ethnicity or race, little evidence was found of meaningful variation in public response to fire management based on socio-demographic characteristics or geographic variation.

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Research perspectives on the public and fire management: a synthesis of current social science on eight essential questions

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Olsen²

2012

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“…Studies investigating adult wildfire education describe the methods and complex challenges of communicating the role of fire in an ecosystem and educating the public about management tools such as prescribed fire (Ingalsbee, Henry, Catranides, & Schulke, 2008; Jacobsen, Monroe, & Marynowski, 2001;Monroe & Nelson, 2004;Sturtevant & McCaffrey, 2006). Toman, Shindler, and Reed (2004) showed that providing concrete experiences, such as site visits to a fire-managed forest, can impact adults' knowledge, awareness, and support of fire management practices. Similarly, hands-on activities in public workshops improved adults' content knowledge about fire and attitude toward fire management practices (Parkinson, Force, & Smith, 2003).…”

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The Evolution of Smokey Bear: Environmental Education About Wildfire for Youth

Ballard

Evans

Sturtevant

et al. 2012

The Journal of Environmental Education

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“…Wildland fires, whether natural or human-ignited, have one thing in common, and that is the release of oxocarbons, hydrocarbons, and particulate matter. Fire smoke can have profound environmental impacts that range from degradation of visibility (Shelby and Speaker 1990;Toman et al 2004), production of regional haze and smog (van der Werf et al 2010;Phuleria et al 2005) and alteration of ecosystem respiration and production (Amiro et al 2010). Smoke from large fires can affect local, regional, and global climate by modifying the earth"s radiative balance and altering cloud and precipitation patterns (Oris 2013;Liu et al 2014).…”

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Application of a statistical emulator to fire emission modeling

Katurji

Nikolic

Zhong

et al. 2015

Environmental Modelling & Software

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We have demonstrated the use of an advanced Gaussian-Process (GP) emulator to estimate wildland fire emissions over a wide range of fuel and atmospheric conditions. The Fire Emission Production Simulator, or FEPS, is used to produce an initial set of emissions data that correspond to some selected values in the domain of the input fuel and atmospheric parameters for the purpose of training the emulator. The emulated emissions are found to be within ±5% of the FEPS simulated emissions, providing confidence in the potential use of the GP-emulator for this and other similar applications.Cluster analysis for 1000 emulator-produced posterior samples spanning a wide-range of fuel and environmental conditions suggest that the emulator not only produces valid results but also preserves the physical relationships between the fire emission and the fuel and environmental conditions. Results show that the GP-emulator could be used as an alternative to the simulations from the FEPS modeling system when four or more input parameters related to fuel type, fuel moisture, and weather condition are allowed to vary.This work also provides a conceptual basis for constructing a nation-wide emissions inventory based on a trained GP-emulator representing the complex geographic distribution of fuel types and environmental conditions.

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Prescribed Fire: The Influence of Site Visits on Citizen Attitudes

Cited by 17 publications

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Research perspectives on the public and fire management: a synthesis of current social science on eight essential questions

Research perspectives on the public and fire management: a synthesis of current social science on eight essential questions

The Evolution of Smokey Bear: Environmental Education About Wildfire for Youth

Application of a statistical emulator to fire emission modeling

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