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Wildland-Urban Interface Maps Vary with Purpose and Context PDF

Wildland-urban interface (WUI) are areas where structures and other human development meet or intermingle with undeveloped wildland. Maps of the WUI are both policy tools and powerful visual images. Although the growing number of WUI maps serve similar purposes, this article indicates that WUI maps derived from the same data sets can differ in important ways related to their original intended application.

Federal Fire Policy and Management Position Paper: State Fire Assistance PDF

The Wilderness Society's Wildland Fire Program works to change our nation’s approach to fire management to focus on protecting communities, restoring ecosystems, and sustaining fire’s role in fire-dependent landscapes, where safe to do so. Our vision is of a landscape composed of fire-safe communities existing within a larger, healthy forest ecosystem.

The Evolution of Wilderness Fire Policy PDF

This article gives a brief overview of the policy history of wilderness fire. For most of the century, fire was considered a universal threat to people, resources, and wildlands. Eventually, through the observations of foresters and research of scientists force the realization of the role of fire in sustaining species and maintaining the character of the ecosystems. However, the implementation of wildland fire use (WFU) is still limited due to various attitudinal, institutional and political barriers.

Wildland Fire Use and Cost Containment: A Colorado Case Study PDF

Land management agencies are under political pressure both to reduce fire costs and to mitigate fire risk. One new tool, the development of Fire Management Plans (FMP), is considered so central to both of these objectives that is now required by law for each administrative unit.

Following the Money: National Fire Plan Funding and Implementation PDF

Since its inception in 2000, The National Fire Plan (NFP) has allocated billions of dollars to the Forest Service for fire management. This report traces the path that NFP funds travel from the Forest Service headquarters in Washington, D.C. through its regional offices and on to individual forest districts. In doing so, it reveals the ways in which this agency’s budget and reporting structure lock it into counterproductive practices that actually hinder longer-term efforts to reduce the risk of catastrophic wildland fires.