Patent ID: 8146539

Claim:
A method of reducing herbaceous fuels consistent with a predetermined plan, the plan including a map of a region divided into wildfire susceptible areas and including an order for addressing the areas, the method comprising: developing the predetermined plan, wherein developing the predetermined plan comprises: developing an area map with a plurality of regions and identification by region of the available ungulate populations and herbaceous fuels for fueling a wildfire; identifying a region on the map with herbaceous fuels to be reduced; dividing the region into wildfire susceptible areas; and placing the wildfire susceptible areas in an order for reduction of fuel; introducing an ingestible palatable to an available ungulate population in at least a first wildfire susceptible area in the order; and displacing the ungulate population to the at least a first wildfire susceptible area, the ungulate population being attracted to consume the herbaceous fuels in the at least a first wildfire susceptible area in an amount sufficient to reduce the risk of wildfire in that area.