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Nicole M. Vaillant
Researcher at United States Forest Service
Publications - 42
Citations - 1511
Nicole M. Vaillant is an academic researcher from United States Forest Service. The author has contributed to research in topics: Fire regime & Fire ecology. The author has an hindex of 15, co-authored 39 publications receiving 1226 citations. Previous affiliations of Nicole M. Vaillant include University of California, Berkeley & United States Department of Agriculture.
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A comparison of landscape fuel treatment strategies to mitigate wildland fire risk in the urban interface and preserve old forest structure
TL;DR: In this paper, fuel reduction treatments on a 16,000 ha study area in Oregon, US, examine tradeoffs between placing fuel treatments near residential structures within an urban interface, versus treating stands in the adjacent wildlands to meet forest health and ecological restoration goals.
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Integrating Fire Behavior Models and Geospatial Analysis for Wildland Fire Risk Assessment and Fuel Management Planning
TL;DR: The efforts to build a streamlined fuel management planning and risk assessment framework, and an integrated system of tools for designing and testing fuel treatment programs on fire-prone wildlands are described.
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Analyzing wildfire exposure and source–sink relationships on a fire prone forest landscape
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used simulation modeling to analyze wildfire exposure to social and ecological values on a 0.6 million ha national forest in central Oregon, USA, and generated detailed maps of burn probability (BP) and fire intensity distributions.
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Restoration of fire in managed forests: a model to prioritize landscapes and analyze tradeoffs
TL;DR: In this paper, a spatial model was developed to explore different landscape treatment configurations and identify optimal project parameters that maximize restoration goals, and a decision support protocol to prioritize landscapes and specific areas to treat within them.
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The effectiveness and limitations of fuel modeling using the Fire and Fuels Extension to the Forest Vegetation Simulator.
TL;DR: In this paper, two new methods of assigning fuel models within the Fire and Fuels Extension to the Forest Vegetation Simulator were evaluated, and results of 7 out of 10 statistical tests comparing surface flame length between custom and stylized fuel models were not significant.