Wildfire is the term applied to any unwanted unplanned damaging fire burning in forest shrub or grass and is one of the most powerful natural forces known to people US Fire Policy focused on suppressing all fires on national forests ID: 759395
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To Burn or Not to Burn
Slide2Wildfire
Wildfire" is the term applied to any unwanted, unplanned, damaging fire burning in forest, shrub or grass and is one of the most powerful natural forces known to people.
Slide3US Fire Policy
focused on suppressing all fires on national forests. The goal was to protect timber resources and rural communities, but this policy ignored the ecological importance of fire.
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US Forest Service established to manage America’s forest
Slide51970-1978
Forest Service publicly acknowledged the ecological importance of fire, allowing some fires to burn under accepted weather conditions. In 1978, the Forest Service officially abandoned its policy that required all fires to be extinguished as quickly as possible. The Forest Fires Emergency Act was repealed the same year
Slide6Slide7Politics and Fire
Fire suppression policy has backfired because of the political nature of public land management. Public ownership of forests results in management decisions based on politics, rather than on local, professional, or scientific knowledge.
Slide8Air Quality
Slide9Nature’s Housekeeper
http://www.smokeybear.com/with-fire.asp
Without fire
http://www.smokeybear.com/without-fire.asp
Slide10Anatomy of a Prescribed Burn
Slide11Fire Dependent Ecosystems
Slide12Slide13High Burn Rate…
Many factors are involved and include:
Past fire suppression policies which allowed for the accumulation of fuel in the form of fallen leaves, branches, and excessive plant overgrowth in forest and
wildland
areas.
Increasingly dry, hot weather.
Changing weather patterns across the US.
Increased residential development in the
wildland
/urban interface.
Slide14Yellowstone Fire
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIxyUcb2wqI&feature=related
Slide15Slide16Forest Fire Fighters
Known as GroundPounders or YellowShirts these fire fightersare the front line workers
Slide17Smoke Jumpers
Slide18Slide19Air Support
Slide20Real Time Forest Fires in US
http://www.smokeybear.com/wildfire-map.asp
Slide21Only You….