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Wildland-Urban Interface
By Stephen Pyne
It is here that storm surges of fire, roaring over the long fetch of the Great Plains, whipped by the westerlies into whitecaps of flame, crash against the less combustible woods.
By Stephen Pyne
Restoration is a slippery concept. In some places it means mostly finding ways to preserve and enhance relicts that have survived the battering. In other places it means an outright regeneration, or a reconversion of farmland to prairie. But at its core it involves sparing the pieces and saving the processes that connect them.
By Stephen Pyne
America's fire polity has split into two dominant confederations. One looks to wilderness as a guide, and tolerates human activities insofar as they lead ultimately to their own removal. The other looks to working landscapes for which fire remains an implement for hunting, herding, logging, and other forms of sustenance that serve human economies. There is little common ground between them...
By Josh McDaniel
As bad as the WUI problem has become for wildland fire managers, a new study published by the Montana-based, independent non-profit research organization, Headwater Economics, shows that it could become much worse.
By Josh McDaniel
The Grand Mesa National Forest in western Colorado has never had a fire like the Coal Creek Fire, a 1,485 acre blaze creeping up the slopes of the Grand Mesa near Kannah Creek.
By Josh McDaniel
This past spring, I visited the aftermath of a debris flow in Amago Creek on the La Jolla Indian Reservation outside of San Diego—one of the many large flows that impacted the watersheds hit hard by the southern Calfornia fires in October, 2007.
By Josh McDaniel
I am Fred Nelson, tribal member of the La Jolla reservation – tribal treasurer for the tribe. To start out with we were devastated by the 2007 fires – October fires – that came through and burned about 94% of the reservation. We lost 59 structures.
By Josh McDaniel
The October fires in southern California brought national media attention to many of the issues that are front and center in wildland fire research.
By Josh McDaniel
During the southern California fires, TV viewers saw aerial views of flames coming out of the canyons and battering against tightly-packed hilltop subdivisions. Even reporters and viewers who had never heard of the term wildland-urban interface started asking the fundamental question - why are we still building homes in these areas?
By Sarah McCaffrey
There has been a growing interest in the United States in exploring alternatives to mass evacuation such as adoption of the Australian model.
Fact Sheet-Australia's Stay and Defend Program
The Blue Mountains, west of Sydney, covers 1,433,000 hectares and is one of the most bushfire-prone areas of the world.
Fact Sheet-Australia's Stay and Defend Program
While there is increasing evidence that the ‘stay or go’ is based on good evidence about the nature of the threat and effective response, recent research highlights that its effective implementation depends on the public's understanding, willingness and capacity to implement it.
Fact Sheet-Australia's Stay and Defend Program
By Roger Kennedy
Once more, all across the foothills of the West, construction crews are in a race with fire crews. Some bulldozers are busy preparing new firetrap-residences while other bulldozers are just up hill – desperately trying to clear firebreaks.
Fact Sheet-Only 14% of Potential WUI Currently Developed
There are three main WUI education programs in the United States, Australia and Canada, respectively: FireWise, FireSmart and Prepare: Stay and Defend or Go Early.
Fact Sheet-Australia's Stay and Defend Program
By Josh McDaniel
In June, 2003 the Aspen Fire burned through the village of Summerhaven, a mountain getaway in the Santa Cantalina Mountains above Tucson. The fire destroyed over 300 homes and businesses. Reconstruction began almost immediately.
Woody biomass is showing growing potential as a major source of alternative energy. The White Mountain Stewardship Contract of the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest is building a small-scale woody biomass industry based on the hazardous fuel reduction and treatment programs.
While research on the social side of the ecosystem management equation has been embraced more slowly than say the ecological or biological aspects of fire management, a steady stream of focused research has begun to produce solid, empirically-grounded conclusions and recommendations.