May 2014 | Features
Talk the Walk: Fire Use in Large Fire Management
By Guest Writer
Re-articulating fire management as fire use
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To shape a resilient forest, build our forest bioenergy industries
By Guest Writer
The full cost of California’s 2013 Rim Fire are arriving and they are staggering if they are to be believed. Federal and…
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When a hurricane becomes a wildfire
By Kat Sonia Thomson
When the gales of Hurricane Sandy pushed flames through New York City, an all-risk commander called on his wildfire experience to craft…
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Mapping the burning bush
By Ron Steffens
In northern Australia, satellite-based mapping shapes our strategies on-the-ground. By mapping the early burns and fuel breaks, we can manage later burns…
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Reducing the risks of prescribed fire: The Evan Thomas Burn
By Guest Writer
Seventy-five years after an early fire challenged the Alberta Fire Service, an innovative fuel amendment on a landscape-scale prescribed burn returns fire…
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Framing our fire story to promote sustainable policies and practices
By Guest Writer
For the 2012 fire season, a USFS fire ban directive raised concerns that a return to a “suppressionâ€-only response to fire would…
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