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Flores, Fox, Iverson, Venette, Conley, Jahn, Howes, Haire
The USDA Forest Service anticipated that COVID-19 outbreaks among fire management personnel would potentially impact the agency’s ability to maintain the readiness of the wildland fire system and to respond to large complex wildfires across the…
Type: Document
Year: 2022
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
Paschen, Beilin
The research investigated understandings of risk and resilience in emergency management (EM) policy and practice. The core findings illustrate how a complex of institutionalised socio-cultural expectations and standardised processes that is,…
Type: Document
Year: 2017
Vigneaux
The U.S. federal wildland fire management system continues to experience rises in the number of acres burned annually and increases in management expenditures surrounded by firefighter death and injury. Despite a wealth of relevant academic research…
Type: Document
Year: 2016
Dudley, Draeger, Harris, Heaton, Pfister, Spradling, Boursier, Cooper, Petrilli, Duran
On the evening of July 30, 2015, 38-year-old Black Hills National Forest Engine Captain David “Dave” Ruhl was entrapped and killed while scouting on foot during initial attack of the Frog Fire on the Modoc National Forest (Region 5, California). A…
Type: Document
Year: 2016
Harbour
From the text ... 'Fire suppression duties today are performed in a political, cultural, and physical environment that is more challenging than ever before.'
Type: Document
Year: 2006
Brauneis
From the text ... 'It is my hope that the Ten Standard Firefighting Orders will be used as they were intended and not become just a list of items to be memorized by our firefighters. I am no saint. In my early years, I tended to rush through the…
Type: Document
Year: 2002
Pyne
From the book jacket...'From prehistory to the present-day conservation movement, Stephen J. Pyne's narrative explores the efforts of sucessive American cultures to master this forbidding kind of fire and to use it to shape the landscape. He draws…
Type: Document
Year: 1982
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