Mega-fires are expected to increase in the Western United States. The state of the science suggests that the best mitigation to prevent destructive forest fires is to reintroduce ecologically beneficial fire, but this can only be accomplished with...
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Definition: A device, system, network, or technology for communicating information or tools pertaining to wildland fire.
(Environmental Protection Agency/Fire Research And Management Exchange System)
Good communications are essential for carrying out fire management activities, whether in conducting fire suppression operations or in establishing two-way dialogues with the public. The Incident Command System (ICS) is similar in style to a paramilitary organization, with a unified command and control structure that requires a good communications infrastructure.
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8th International Fire Ecology and Management Congress
Loews Ventana Canyon Resort
November 18, 2019 12:00 am PST to November 22, 2019 11:00 pm PST
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Person: Cisneros, Alcala, Schweizer, Burke
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The design, development and initial testing of a prototype probabilistic warning system for Chile, including communication of the warnings at different information levels. The 2016/17 wildfire season in Chile was the worst on record, burning more than...
Person: Dacre, Crawford, Charlton-Perez, López-Saldaña, Griffiths, Veloso
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Air Resource Advisors provide a vast array of tools and products to predict and communicate smoke impacts during wildfires. Having a resource solely dedicated to smoke management and effective messaging improves both internal and external communication...
Person: Lahm
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
This fact sheet summarizes smoke research relevant to the southeastern U.S. funded by the Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP) as presented in the publication, 'A compendium of brief summaries of smoke science research in support of the Joint Fire Science...
Person: Dixon, Robertson
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Firewise of Southwest Colorado has established a Neighborhood Ambassador Program to help local communities adapt to living with wildfire. Neighborhood Ambassadors lead their own communities in efforts to become more aware of and safer from wildfire....
Person: Samulski
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Today’s extended fire seasons and large fire footprints have prompted state and federal land-management agencies to devote increasingly large portions of their budgets to wildfire management. As fire costs continue to rise, timely and comprehensive...
Person: Toombs, Weber, Stegner, Schnase, Lindquist, Lippitt
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
A pair of three-day workshops were held in 2008 and 2009, designed for fire managers responsible for communicating and negotiating with state and local air quality regulators. The workshops were organized by the NWCG Smoke Committee, coordinated by the...
Person: Smith, Hyde
Year: 2009
Type: Project
Source: FRAMES
The purpose of the Mormon Fire Staff Ride is to encourage the use of natural ignition fires as a forest management tool by creating a peer-learning space for line officers to explore implementation decisions and challenges. By using the story map, we...
Person:
Year: 2018
Type: Website
Source: FRAMES
The scale and complexity associated with the coordinated response to natural disasters inevitably produce human errors. However, little is known about the frequency and distribution of human error at different levels of coordination during disasters....
Person: Brooks, Curnin, Bearman, Owen
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
This webinar presented by Wayne Cascio June 21, 2017 highlighted updates to the Wildfire Smoke Guide, as well as the Smoke Sense app, which is a mobile application that gets air quality information to people impacted by wildfire smoke, and helps those...
Person: Cascio
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
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WTREX 2019
Tallahassee, FL
March 18, 2019 (All day)
This training goes from March 18-29, 2019.
When the US fire management system was conceived in the early 1900s, women’s roles in the workforce were much different than they are now. Even today, women constitute a relatively small proportion of...
8th International Fire Ecology and Management Congress
Loews Ventana Canyon Resort
November 18, 2019 12:00 am PST to November 22, 2019 11:00 pm PST
Join the Association for Fire Ecology and the Southwest Fire Science Consortium for the 8th International Fire Ecology and Management Congress. The Congress will expand the ecological concept of pyrodiversity to explore interconnectedness among a...
2018 National Disaster Resilience Conference
November 7, 2018 12:00 am PST to November 9, 2018 11:00 pm PST
The 2018 National Disaster Resilience Conference that will bring together the nation's foremost voices in the disaster safety and resilience movement on November 7-9 in Clearwater Beach, FL. Keynote presentations, discussion panels, and spotlight...
Webinar - The Role of Communication in Knowledge Co-production
June 5, 2018 11:00 am to 12:00 pm PDT
Researchers and practitioners involved in knowledge co-production each use their own specialized language. An important part of successful knowledge co-production involves establishing shared terms of references. Communicating effectively and...
Webinar - Communicating Climate Change: CTUIR Climate Adaptation Planning and Community Outreach
May 23, 2018 11:00 am to 12:00 pm PDT
Presenter: Colleen Sanders, Climate Adaptation Planner, Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation Dept. of Natural Resources
Climate change impacts are complicated and interrelated, and planning for adaptation requires the...
AWFCG Interagency Fall Fire Review
Bureau of Land Management - Alaska Fire Service
October 10, 2017 (All day) to October 12, 2017 (All day)
Annual Alaska Wildland Fire Coordinating Group (AWFCG) Interagency Fall Fire Review
Effective Prescribed Fire Communications Workshop
Larkspur Fire Station 161
May 10, 2017 10:00 am to 2:30 pm PDT
Presented by Pikes Peak Fire Learning Network.
The benefits associated with prescribed fire are well known among natural resource professionals. However, studies show that the public at large is less informed. Lack of public understanding...
Redding Interagency Hotshot Leadership Development Program
Northern California Training Center
April 17, 2017 (All day) to April 18, 2017 (All day)
Dates: Tentative start date of April 17th, 2017
The Redding Interagency Hotshot Crew is one of the four developmental IHC's in the nation (Redmond IHC, Asheville IHC and Lewis and Clark IHC). The purpose is to provide an...
Montana Society of American Foresters 2017 Annual Meeting
University of Montana
April 14, 2017 (All day) to April 15, 2017 (All day)
This meeting will focus on building better relationships between natural resource professionals and journalists.
2017 Wildfire Leadership Conference
Hilton Garden Inn
April 7, 2017 (All day) to April 9, 2017 (All day)
Join wildfire professionals from around Montana at the Montana County Fire Warden's Association bi-annual conference.
For conference agenda and other information, see the...
Northeast Oklahoma TREX
March 13, 2017 (All day) to March 17, 2017 (All day)
In the field, hands-on training in prescribed fire planning, preparation and implementation, along with classroom sessions on fire ecology and fireline communications, will combine to form a busy week for participants in this first TREX (training...
Burning Issue: Sparking Effective Communication about Fire
February 7, 2017 (All day) to February 8, 2017 (All day)
State College, PA
This event is a joint workshop by the Pennsylvania Prescribed Fire Council, the Consortium of Appalachian Fire Managers and Scientists, and the North Atlantic Fire Science Exchange. Across the East, fire...