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Advances In Fire Practice
Advances in Fire Practice     WINTER 2009-2010

  Decision Support
 Understanding El Nino for Your  Management Unit

By Tim Brown and John Abatzoglou

The Desert Research Institute recently published a science brief describing the El Nino weather pattern and its relationship to fire risk and other land management concerns. The brief also introduces a new monthly El Nino risk mapping product that DRI helped to shape.



WINTER 2010
Topics: Decision Support, Fire Management
The goal of NFDSC is to provide a key link between wildland fire science development and the appropriate application of that science.



By Josh McDaniel
WINTER 2010
Topics: Climate, Fire Ecology, Fuels
Land managers will soon be faced with the apparent paradox of simultaneously managing forests for both fire management and carbon sequestration. Research presented at the conference showed that researchers will be working alongside land managers to solve that puzzle.



  AFP VIDEO
 Is Climate Change Behind Recent Increase in Fire Activity?

It has become conventional wisdom that a warming climate has led to larger and more severe fires in the western US over the past few decades. The West is definitely warmer, but is it part of a long term warming trend connected to global climate change?



  AFP VIDEO
 Black Saturday Bushfires

The Black Saturday bushfires ignited across the Australian state of Victoria on and around Saturday, February 7th 2009 during extreme bushfire-weather conditions, resulting in Australia's highest ever loss of life from a bushfire. 173 people died as a result of the fires, 414 were injured, and over 1600 residences were burned. This video looks at the conditions that led to Black Saturday, as well as the issues the fires have raised for the Australian bushfire Community.





 
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