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On September 12, 1960, the brand new Northern Forest Fire Laboratory was dedicated in Missoula, MT. The fire lab's mission was-and is-to improve scientific understanding of wildland fire so it can be managed more safely and effectively in the field. The first scientists to work at the fire lab initiated research that continues to be used, refined, and extended. The questions studied and the technology used at the fire lab have evolved continually since 1960, and the lab's name has changed more than once. Today, it is the Missoula Fire Sciences Laboratory. But the original focus-developing a greater understanding of wildland fire and using the best technology available to get that knowledge into the hands of fire managers-has been a way of life for fire lab scientists for a half-century.
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- ecosystem dynamics
- experimental fire
- fire danger rating
- fire management
- fire management planning
- fire models
- fire regimes
- fire research
- flammability
- forest management
- fuel loading
- fuel management
- fuel moisture
- knowledge
- laboratory fires
- MFSL - Missoula Fire Sciences Laboratory
- Montana
- smoke effects
- smoke management
- wildfires
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