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A 10-year review of accidents and incidents within the USDA Forest Service wildland fire system.
This document seeks to describe the wildland fire system and culture within which U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service employees operate. To…
Type: Document
Year: 2022
Reed
This specialist report is an assessment of the potential for the aerial application of fire retardant to affect the character and integrity of historic properties. Additional general information about fire retardant can be found in the EIS.
Type: Document
Year: 2011
Hanks
From the text ... 'Risk management is on center stage as an example of the shift in culture for fire and aviation managers.'
Type: Document
Year: 2011
Stevens, Dressel
Australian Aborigines and North American Indians occupied a diversity of habitat types, most of which they subjected to systematic firing. The few existing studies show conclusively that such fire technologies were employed to control the…
Type: Document
Year: 1981
Hafenfeld
Prescribed fire is a valuable tool utilized in the management of wildlife habitat, range, forestry, watershed, fuels, and fire dependent vegetation communities. Although most impacts are beneficial, some adverse impacts must be mitigated.…
Type: Document
Year: 1981
The Pacific Fire Exchange (PFX) is one of fifteen regional consortia supported by the Joint Fire Science Program and is part of a national fire science knowledge exchange network. The PFX seeks to reduce threats to ecosystems and communities in the…
Type: Website
The mission of the Wildland Fire Lessons Learned Center is to promote learning in the wildland fire service by providing useful and relevant products and services that help to reveal the complexity and risk in the wildland fire environment. The…
Type: Website
The US Department of the Interior Library promotes the mission of the Department by providing a full range of professional reference and research services, available to Interior employees in both the Washington, DC, area and nationwide. The Library'…
Type: Website
Wildland fires are a force of nature that can be nearly as impossible to prevent, and as difficult to control, as hurricanes, tornadoes, and floods.
Wildland fire can be a friend and a foe. In the right place at the right time, wildland fire can…
Type: Website