Survey data for the 2014 fuel treatment science plan

Treatment of natural fuels has been carried out in support of management objectives throughout the history of natural resource management across the United States. While research activities have been conducted for over 50 years, an urgent need still exists to provide better guidance for fuel treatment research to support and improve the efficiency of planning, operational implementation, and evaluation. This package contains response data for a Natural Fuels survey sent to fuel treatment practitioners, both federal and non-federal, across the United States in the fall of 2013. There were a total of 23 survey questions dealing with the importance of fuel treatment, impediments to fuel treatment, tools and guidance, and future research. Data included in this package are summaries of responses to each question, as well as individual free-text responses. There were 711 federal respondents and 605 non-federal respondents to these surveys from all across the United States, including Hawaii and Alaska.The surveys were conducted to solicit information from fuel treatment practitioners across the United States for the purpose of constructing a Fuel Treatment Science Plan to guide the Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP) in fuel treatment research over the next five years.纵观美国自然资源管理的发展历程，为支撑各类管理目标的实现，天然燃料（natural fuels）处理工作始终是其中的重要组成部分。尽管相关研究已开展逾50年，但当前仍亟需为燃料处理研究提供更具实操性的指导方案，以支撑并优化规划、作业实施与效果评估的全流程效率。本数据集包收录了2013年秋季面向美国全境的联邦与非联邦燃料处理从业者发放的天然燃料调查问卷回复数据。本次问卷共设置23个调研问题，内容涵盖燃料处理的重要性、燃料处理面临的现实阻碍、可用工具与指导资源，以及未来研究方向四大维度。本数据集包包含两类数据：一是各问题的回复汇总结果，二是受访者提交的独立自由文本回复。本次调研共回收711份联邦从业者回复与605份非联邦从业者回复，受访者覆盖美国全境，包括夏威夷州与阿拉斯加州。本次问卷调研旨在向美国全境的燃料处理从业者征集相关信息，用于编制《燃料处理科学计划》，以指导联合火灾科学计划（Joint Fire Science Program, JFSP）未来五年内的燃料处理研究工作。