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US 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.TRANSCRIPT
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To Burn or Not to Burn
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Wildfire• 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.
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US 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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1905
• US Forest Service established to manage America’s forest
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1970-1978
• 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 The Forest Fires Emergency Act was repealed the same year
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Politics 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.
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Air Quality
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Nature’s Housekeeper
• http://www.smokeybear.com/with-fire.asp
• Without fire• http://www.smokeybear.com/without-fire.asp
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Anatomy of a Prescribed Burn
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Fire Dependent Ecosystems
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High 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.
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Yellowstone Fire
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIxyUcb2wqI&feature=related
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Forest Fire Fighters
Known as GroundPounders or YellowShirts these fire fightersare the front line workers
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Smoke Jumpers
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Air Support
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Real Time Forest Fires in US
• http://www.smokeybear.com/wildfire-map.asp
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