Prescribed burn associations are the cooperatives that share knowledge, experience, and equipment among contributing members to increase the application and safety of fire as a management tool.� However, soaring management costs, complex liability laws, and the uncontrolled fire risks in wildland-urban interface have negatively influenced their preference towards prescribed burning. We conducted an online survey of memberships to understand the social, economic, and environmental issues related to prescribed burning. The preliminary results suggest that more than half respondents had at least 10 years of experience in prescribed burning. The majority stakeholders, however, did not have an insurance coverage. Weather conditions, safety, firebreaks, and needed equipment to conduct the burn had the strongest influence in conducting or planning for a prescribed fire. Study results suggest some policy and outreach strategies that can help reduce burning costs and increase stakeholder participation in prescribed burning.
Oral presentation and poster titles, abstracts, and authors from the Society for Range Management (SRM) Annual Meetings and Tradeshows, from 2013 forward.