Monthly Webinar Series
The Joint Fire Science Program, International Association of Wildland Fire, and the Wildland Fire Lessons Learned Center are hosting a monthly webinar series.
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VIEW RECORDED WEBINAR Burning in Their Backyards and Having Them Say "Thank You" - Steve "Torch" Miller, June 13, 1 PM MDT
Decision Support
This publication focuses on the thought processes and considerations surrounding a risk management process for decision making on wildfires. The publication introduces a six element risk management cycle designed to encourage sound risk-informed decision making in accordance with Federal wildland fire policy, although the process is equally applicable to non-Federal fire managers and partners.
Decision Support
December 2010 was Queensland, Australia’s wettest on record, with record high rainfall totals set in 107 locations across the state for the month. Flooding began in early December and then intensified later in the month as Cyclone Tasha swept across the coast.
Climate
According to a recent analysis, climate change is widely expected to interrupt future fire patterns around the world, with some regions, such as the western United States, seeing more frequent fires within the next 30 years.
Technology
A high-tech computer model called HIGRAD/FIRETEC provides insights into levels of bark beetle-induced conditions that lead to drastic changes in fire behavior and how variable or erratic the behavior is likely to be.
 Fire Management
Winter 2013
Southwest Fire Science Consortium video which uses interviews with fire and land managers to find out the role previous burns play in current fire management, prescribed fire planning, and the potential benefits or negative consequences of allowing fires to reburn areas that have experienced high severity fire in the recent past.
 Fuel Treatment
Winter 2013
Southwest Fire Science Consortium video describing mastication fuel treatments in the Southwest. Covers treatment effectiveness during recent large wildfires and also describes the benefits and potential drawbacks of mastication fuel treatments.
Technology
Conditions change constantly in the fire management environment. Rapid dissemination of wildland fire maps and geospatial information has become a critical element in responding to those changes. Billy Phillips, a smokejumper with the Missoula Smokejumper Base, believes that mobile technologies will soon bring big changes to fire management.
Risk Management
This DRAFT publication provides guidance on the risk assessment and risk management process, flow, and points to consider in making informed, sound risk-based decisions for wildfires. It emphasizes the thought process behind sound fire management decision making using a risk management process.
Rx Fire
A recent paper, published in the June issue of the journal BioScience synthesizes 20 years of research throughout the country on the ecological impact of reducing forest wildfire risk through controlled burns and tree thinning. The study found limited ecological impacts from prescribed fire and, consequently, efforts to ramp up prescribed fire programs should be ramped up.
Rx Fire
Based on responses from all 50 state forestry agency surveys, this report outlines 2011 national and regional prescribed fire activity, state prescribed fire programs, and identifies impediments limiting prescribed fire use.
 Fire Policy
Summer 2012
Fire managers across the Southwest have taken the lead in using wildfire management as another tool to treat hazardous fuels and restore fire-dependent ecosystems.
 Invasives
Summer 2012
The Southwest Fire Science Consortium has produced a video and article on the effort to control buffelgrass in Tucson and the surrounding Sonoran Desert.
Risk
Spring 2012
Recording of a webinar presented by Amanda McAdams on the risk management preparation, implementation, and lessons learned for the Intermountain Region of the Forest Service for the 2011 fire season. The presentation includes a case study of the Salt Fire. View Webinar
Peat Fires
Drying Wetlands Resulting in Increased Peat Fires, Carbon Release
Drying of northern wetlands has led to much more severe peatland wildfires and nine times as much carbon released into the atmosphere, according to a new study.
WUI Research
New Research on the Role of Firebrands in Home Ignitions
One of the biggest threats to homes in WUI fires is firebrands. Lofting onto shingles or floating into eaves, firebrands smolder before setting their resting place ablaze. Since 2008, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has been conducting research to discover when, how, and how often embers start fires after they land.
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Summer 2009
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Patch Burning
It is here that storm surges of fire, roaring over the long fetch of the Great Plains, whipped by the
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Summer 2009
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Missouri Compromise
America's fire polity has split into two dominant confederations. One looks to wilderness as a guide,
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Winter 2008
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The Carbon Leakage Problem
Forests absorb billions of tons of CO2 globally per year, amounting to about 30% of all CO2 emissions
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Spring 2007
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The Gift of Fire
As Salish and Pend d’Oreille people, our view of fire was and is quite different from the modern western
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Spring 2009
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Questioning Mann Gulch
On August 5, 1949, a surging wildfire trapped fifteen smoke jumpers and one fireguard in a chimney-shaped
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