U.S. Forest ServiceKaruk TribeOver the last century, the United States Forest Service (USFS) has reversed its stance on the ecological role of fire – from a militant enforcer of forest fire suppression to supporting prescribed fire as a management tool. Meanwhile, the Karuk Tribe has always ...
Cascades. U.S. Forest Service. Agee, J. K. and Maruoka, K. R. (1994). Historical Fire Regimes of the Blue Mountains. Blue Mountains Natural Resources Institute. http://.fs.fed.us/pnw/bmnri/pubs/tn1.htm. Agee, J.K. (1996). Fire in the Blue Mountains: A History, Ecology, and...
PD-1 USDA Forest Service Gen. Tech. Rep. RMRS-GTR-164-CD. 2006 Plot Description (PD) Sampling Method Robert E. Keane SUMMARY The Plot Description (PD) form is used to describe general characteristics of the FIREMON macroplot to provide ecological context for data analyses. The PD data ...
The ICS-209 form, commonly referred to as asitrep, is part of the U.S. National Incident Management System/Incident Command System (NIMS/ICS). The earliest implementation of ICS was developed by the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) following a devastating fire in California in 1970 that claimed ...
Left and Right: Whitewater-Baldy Fire (Gila National Forest). Middle: Gila Trout (@thecolemancollection). “Eleven out of the 17 populations of Gila Trout were within the burn areas of those two fires...We lost eight of those populations. Ash from the fires gets washed into the water, ...
Greg Abbott issued a disaster declaration for 60 counties as the largest blaze, the Smokehouse Creek Fire, burned nearly 400 square miles, according to the Texas A&M Forest Service. That's more than twice its size since the fire sparked Monday. Authorities have not said what might have...
In the fall of 2016, 107 test fires were burned in the large-scale combustion facility at the US Forest Service Missoula Fire Sciences Laboratory as part of the Fire Influence on Regional and Global Environments Experiment (FIREX). Canopy, litter, duff, dead wood, and other fuel components ...
The Forest Service hopes to hire around 11,300 firefighters this year. The lengthening of fire season also has changed the makeup of seasonal fire crews and permanent positions. Jeff Rupert, director of the U.S. Interior Department’s Office of Wildland Fire, said that in years past, more ...
Temporal downscaling from daily to 3-h emissions and burned area was performed using diurnal cycles of wildfire activity based on gridded (0.25° resolution) and monthly aggregated satellite active fire detections provided by the Global Fire Emissions Database (GFED)54,80. For each set of plume ...
ForestServicemanual southwesternregion(region3) ALBUQUERQUE,NEWMEXICO fsm2500–watershedandairmanagement chapteR2580–airresourcemanagement SupplementNo.:2500-2005-1 EffectiveDate:June30,2005 Duration:Thissupplementiseffectiveuntilsupersededorremoved. Approved:AbelMCamarena (For)RegionalForester DateApproved:06...