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Riley
Can we save money on wildfire suppression by investing in fuel treatments and prescribed fire?
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Lahm, Melvin, Uhl
The Western Governors’ Association hosted the webinar, Prescribed Fire: Smoke Management and Regulatory Challenges on Dec. 19, 2017 as part of the series for the National Forest and Rangeland Management Initiative. Prescribed fire is a…
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Mockrin
Becoming a fire-adapted community that can live with wildfire is envisioned as a continuous, iterative process of adaptation. We combined national and case study research to examine how experience with wildfire alters the built environment and…
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Brenkert-Smith, Meldrum, Champ, Barth
Wildfire and the threat it poses to society represents an example of the complex, dynamic relationship between social and ecological systems. Increasingly, wildfire adaptation is posited as a pathway to shift the approach to fire from a suppression…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Thompson, Dunn, Calkin
A changing climate, changing development and land use patterns, and increasing pressures on ecosystem services raise global concerns over growing losses associated with wildland fires. New management paradigms acknowledge that fire is inevitable and…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
The National Incident Management System: Wildland Fire Qualification System Guide standardizes the minimum NWCG requirements for federal state, and local agencies in providing resources to fill a national interagency request for all types of…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Fawcett
Learn about Prescribed Burn Associations from Jennifer Fawcett! Firewise? FAC? Prescribed Burn Associations? There are a lot of programs and opportunities out there to help your community live more safely with wildfire. This is part 3 of 5 in a…
Year: 2017
Type: Media
Weir, Coffey, Russell, Baldwin, Twidwell, Cram, Bauman, Fawcett
Fire is an important ecological process that maintains prairies, shrublands and forests. Prescribed fire provides and helps maintain quality habitat for native wildlife, improves grazing for livestock, suppresses invasive woody plant growth and…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Cook, Becker
The number of large wildfires and area burned by wildfires in the western U.S. have increased significantly over the last 30 years and are expected to continue to do so. This study examines state costs for wildfire suppression in the western U.S.…
Year: 2017
Type: Document
Domitrovich, Broyles, Ottmar, Reinhardt, Naeher, Kleinman, Navarro, Mackay, Adetona
Wildland fire smoke is a complex mixture of air contaminants that have the potential cause adverse health effects. Individuals can be exposed occupationally if they work as wildland firefighters or public exposure from ambient air that is…
Year: 2017
Type: Document