Blazing Heritage
Blazing Heritage

Author: Hal Rothman

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2007-04-12

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 0195311167

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National parks played a unique role in the development of wildfire management on American public lands. With a different mission and powerful meaning to the public, the national parks were a psychic battleground for the contests between fire suppression and its use as a management tool. Blazing Heritage tells how the national parks shaped federal fire management.

Federal Wildland Fire Management
Federal Wildland Fire Management

Author: DIANE Publishing Company

Publisher: DIANE Publishing

Published: 1997-08

Total Pages: 56

ISBN-13: 0788146793

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Managing wildland fire in the U.S. is a challenge increasing in complexity & magnitude. The goals & actions presented in this report encourage a proactive approach to wildland fire to reduce its threat. Five major topic areas on the subject are addressed: the role of wildland fire in resource management; the use of wildland fire; preparedness & suppression; wildland/urban interface protection; & coordinated program management. Also presented are the guiding principle that are fundamental to wildland fire management & recommendations for fire management policies. Photos, graphs, & references.

Wildland Fire Incident Management Field Guide
Wildland Fire Incident Management Field Guide

Author: NWCG

Publisher: NWCG Training Branch

Published: 2014-06-06

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13:

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The Wildland Fire Incident Management Field Guide is a revision of what used to be called the Fireline Handbook, PMS 410-1. This guide has been renamed because, over time, the original purpose of the Fireline Handbook had been replaced by the Incident Response Pocket Guide, PMS 461. As a result, this new guide is aimed at a different audience, and it was felt a new name was in order.

Wildland Fire Management Handbook for Sub-Sahara Africa
Wildland Fire Management Handbook for Sub-Sahara Africa

Author: Johann Georg Goldammer

Publisher: African Minds

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 446

ISBN-13: 191983365X

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Africa is a fire continent. Since the early evolution of humanity, fire has been harnessed as a land-use tool. Many ecosystems of Sub-Sahara Africa that have been shaped by fire over millennia provide a high carrying capacity for human populations.