Critical path method applied to research project planning: Fire Economics Evaluation System (FEES)

The Authors: EARL B. ANDERSON is a supervisory physical scientist and leader of the Site-Specific Fire Prescriptions for California Chaparral and Associated Ecosystems research project headquartered at Riverside, California. At the time this work was accomplished, he was an operations research analyst in the Station's Fire Management Planning and Economics project. He earned a degree (1951) in mechanical engineering at the University of Illinois. He was a member of the technical staff of Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, California, from 1962 until he joined the Station's staff in 1978. R. STANTON HALES is the associate dean and professor of mathematics, Pomona College, California. He holds degrees in mathematics from Pomona College (bachelor's 1964) and from Harvard University (master's 1965, doctorate 1970). Acknowledgments: We thank the many students and faculty members of the Claremont Colleges who contributed to this work. In particular, a large share of credit for development of the planning system described belongs to a team in the Claremont Graduate School Mathematics Clinic under the leadership of Suzanne Larson.