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Research brief: Prescribed fire risks relative to other management techniques used on private lands
Middlemis-Brown
Recent research by Twidwell and colleagues evaluated the risks of various land management tools used in the private sector, with a focus on the relative risks of prescribed fire. The authors concluded that prescribed fire carried less fatality risk…
Year: 2015
Type: Document

First approximations of prescribed fire risks relative to other management techniques used on private lands
Twidwell, Wonkka, Sindelar, Weir
Fire is widely recognized as a critical ecological and evolutionary driver that needs to be at the forefront of land management actions if conservation targets are to be met. However, the prevailing view is that prescribed fire is riskier than other…
Year: 2015
Type: Document

Measuring the wildland firefighting safety culture change-an analysis of entrapment rates from 1994 to 2013
Loveless, Hernandez
The tragic fatality events of the mid-1990s and subsequent studies led to a concentrated effort to increase safety in the US federal wildland firefighter community beginning in 2000. Addressing human factors (HF) as a causal agent in accidents was a…
Year: 2015
Type: Document

Proceedings of the International Smoke Symposium, October 21-24, 2013, Hyattsville, MD
The International Smoke Symposium was held in Hyattsville, Maryland at the University of Maryland University College, USA, October 21-24, 2013. The objective of this symposium was to bring together air quality, fire, and smoke specialists from the…
Year: 2015
Type: Document

Investigating the influence of airborne particulate matter source and size on health outcomes
Ferguson
Air pollution is an environmental health concern throughout the world, and is responsible for an estimated 1 out of 8 deaths. As a common component of air pollution, particulate matter (PM) is one of six criteria air pollutants regulated by the…
Year: 2015
Type: Document

Minimizing Smoke Impacts of Prescribed Fire
Describes the mission and methods of the US Forest Service's Air Resource Management Program. A six-part series that is also available in a single video.
Year: 2015
Type: Media

The let-burn policy: implications in the Madrean province of the southwestern United States
Czech, Ffolliott
Fire is a natural phenomenon in Madrean Province ecosystems. Suppression of natural fire has altered ecosystem processes, however. Recognition of these alterations has led to the adoption of let-burn policies by many management agencies, but a let-…
Year: 1996
Type: Document

Findings from the wildland firefighters human factors workshop: improving wildland firefighter performance under stressful, risky conditions: toward better decisions on the fireline and more resilient organizations: workshop sponsored by USDA Forest
Putnam
From the text...'It has become increasingly clear that wildland firefighters are experiencing collapses in decisionmaking and organizational structure when conditions on the fireline become life-threatening. Since 1990 wildland fire agencies have…
Year: 1996
Type: Document

Prescribed-fire safety
Staton
As a restorationist who has been conducting and supervising prescribed fires for more than 18 years, I have long been concerned about the casual way many restorationists approach this potentially dangerous aspect of restoration. I would like to…
Year: 1996
Type: Document