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Category : Wildfires
Languages : en
Pages : 56
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A Collaborative Approach for Reducing Wildland Fire Risks to Communities and the Environment
Author: Collaborative Approach for Reducing Wildland Fire Risks to Communities and the Environment: 10-Year Comprehensive Strategy
Author: Barry LeonardPublisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1437901891
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 27
Book Description
In Aug. 2001 the Secretaries of Agriculture and the Interior joined the Western Governors¿ Assoc., Nat. Assoc. of State Foresters, Nat. Assoc. of Counties, and the Intertribal Timber Council to endorse this Strategy. The four goals of the 10-Year Comprehensive Strategy are: Improve fire prevention and suppression; reduce hazardous fuels; restore fire-adapted ecosystems; and promote community assistance. Its three guiding principles are: (1) Priority setting that emphasizes the protection of communities and other high-priority watersheds at-risk; (2) Collaboration among governments and broadly representative stakeholders; and (3) Accountability through performance measures & monitoring for results. Illustrations.
A Collaborative Approach for Reducing Wildland Fire Risks to Communities and the Environment
Author: Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest (N.F.), Basin Creek Hazardous Fuels Reduction Project
Author: Boise National Forest (N.F.), Payette National Forest (N.F.) and Sawtooth National Forest (N.F.), Forest Plan Revision
Author: Black Hills National Forest (N.F.), Prairie Project Area
Author: White River National Forest (N.F.), Vail Valley Forest Health Project
Author: USDA Forest Service Strategic Plan for Fiscal Years 2004-08
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Category : Forest policy
Languages : en
Pages : 38
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Between Two Fires
Author: Stephen J. PynePublisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816532141
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
From a fire policy of prevention at all costs to today's restored burning, Between Two Fires is America's history channeled through the story of wildland fire management. Stephen J. Pyne tells of a fire revolution that began in the 1960s as a reaction to simple suppression and single-agency hegemony, and then matured into more enlightened programs of fire management. It describes the counterrevolution of the 1980s that stalled the movement, the revival of reform after 1994, and the fire scene that has evolved since then. Pyne is uniquely qualified to tell America’s fire story. The author of more than a score of books, he has told fire’s history in the United States, Australia, Canada, Europe, and the Earth overall. In his earlier life, he spent fifteen seasons with the North Rim Longshots at Grand Canyon National Park. In Between Two Fires, Pyne recounts how, after the Great Fires of 1910, a policy of fire suppression spread from America’s founding corps of foresters into a national policy that manifested itself as a costly all-out war on fire. After fifty years of attempted fire suppression, a revolution in thinking led to a more pluralistic strategy for fire’s restoration. The revolution succeeded in displacing suppression as a sole strategy, but it has failed to fully integrate fire and land management and has fallen short of its goals. Today, the nation’s backcountry and increasingly its exurban fringe are threatened by larger and more damaging burns, fire agencies are scrambling for funds, firefighters continue to die, and the country seems unable to come to grips with the fundamentals behind a rising tide of megafires. Pyne has once again constructed a history of record that will shape our next century of fire management. Between Two Fires is a story of ideas, institutions, and fires. It’s America’s story told through the nation’s flames.
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