A geospatial tool for assessing potential wildland fire risk in central Texas.
Description:
Wildland fires in the United States are not always confined to wilderness areas. The growth of population centers and housing developments in wilderness areas has blurred the boundaries between rural and urban. This merger of human development and natural landscape is known in the wildland fire community as the wildland urban interface or WUI, and it is within this interface that many wildland fires increasingly occur. As wildland fire intrusions in the WUI increase so too does the need for too…
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Date:
August 2005
Creator:
Hunter, Bruce Allan
Partner:
UNT Libraries