Planning continues for the “The ‘88 Fires: Yellowstone and Beyond” conference
Plans for “The ‘88 Fires: Yellowstone and Beyond” conference are coming together.
The program committee has been very busy in the last two weeks evaluating the presentation abstracts that were submitted. They were very pleased with the quality of the abstracts and we are even more certain that the conference is going to be excellent!
The final details of the program are still being put together, but we just added some new events:
1. A Monday evening session organized by Joe Stutler, “We Were There: Stories from the Fires of ‘88″. Come hear from the Incident Commanders and Area Commanders who managed The ‘88 fires in the Greater Yellowstone Area. There are lessons to be learned from the stories of those who were there and played central roles in the management of the fires.
2. An evening session on firefighter and fire management liability that will draw on the ThirtyMile incident.
3. Special sessions on fire education, fire and the media, and fire in the mind and on the land (the latter organized by a group of environmentalists who have worked closely with fire managers).
More information about the conference, including registration, is HERE. An outline of the program is HERE.
