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Middleton
Protection of culturally important indigenous landscapes has become an increasingly important component of environmental management processes, for both companies and individuals striving to comply with environmental regulations, and for indigenous…
Type: Document
Year: 2013
Alexander, Cruz
Evaluation is a crucial component for model credibility and acceptance by researchers and resource managers. The nature and characteristics of free-burning wildland fires pose challenges to acquiring the kind of quality data necessary for adequate…
Type: Document
Year: 2013
Black, McBride
In an effort to improve organizational outcomes, including safety, in wildland fire management, researchers and practitioners have turned to a domain of research on organizational performance known as High Reliability Organizing (HRO). The HRO…
Type: Document
Year: 2013
Calhoon, Miller, Jimenez, Harper, Williams
With the advent of the usage of primary fibroblasts in comparative and evolutionary biology, it is important for researchers to know the extent to which cells might be altered during the culturing process and how much species might differ in…
Type: Document
Year: 2013
Voggesser, Lynn, Daigle, Lake, Ranco
Climate change related impacts, such as increased frequency and intensity of wildfires, higher temperatures, extreme changes to ecosystem processes, forest conversion and habitat degradation are threatening tribal access to valued resources. Climate…
Type: Document
Year: 2013
Vinyeta, Lynn
Indigenous populations are projected to face disproportionate impacts as a result of climate change in comparison to nonindigenous populations. For this reason, many American Indian and Alaska Native tribes are identifying and implementing…
Type: Document
Year: 2013
Schoeffler
Burns are one of the most painful, disabling, disfiguring, and costly injuries anyone can experience, requiring more medical care than all other traumas (Tutterow 2012). There is a recognized growing problem in the wildland firefighting culture…
Type: Document
Year: 2013
Pyne
Fire has been an integral feature of our planet for over 400 million years. It has defined human culture from the beginning; it is something without which we cannot survive. While among the most destructive forces on Earth, fire displays equally…
Type: Document
Year: 2013
Holdsambeck
How an organization responds to an unintended outcome (such as a serious accident) will vector the organization either towards, or away from, a learning culture. The FLA process came about specifically to move our culture towards becoming a learning…
Type: Media
Year: 2013
Bailey
Jeremy Bailey, a career firefighter and prescribed fire burn boss, will discuss the Fire Learning Network’s Training Exchange program and how it is being used to train numerous local workforces to advance burning across all lands. In the past seven…
Type: Media
Year: 2013