Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Public Lands and ForestsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
GAO Report on Wildland Fire Suppression
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Public Lands and ForestsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Wildland Fire Suppression: Lack of Clear Guidance Raises Concerns about Cost Sharing between Federal & Nonfederal Entities
Author: Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 9781422309360
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations for 2007
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Interior, Environment, and Related AgenciesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1876
Book Description
Wildfire Suppression
Author: Barry T. HillPublisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 9780756743086
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
In 2003, wildfires burned roughly 4 million acres in the U.S., destroyed over 5,000 structures, took the lives of 30 firefighters, & cost over $1 billion to suppress. The substantial expense of fighting wildfires has exceeded the funds appropriated for wildfire suppression (WS) nearly every year since 1990. To pay for WS costs when the funds appropriated are insufficient, the Forest Service & the Interior Dept. have transferred funds from other programs. This report identifies: the amount of funds transferred & reimbursed for WS since 1999, & the programs from which agencies transferred funds; the effects on programs from which funds were taken; & alternative approaches that could be considered for estimating annual WS costs & funding WS. Illus.
Wildland Fires
Author: United States. General Accounting OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Wildfires
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Wildland fire management additional actions required to better identify and prioritize lands needing fuels reduction.
Author: Publisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428943811
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 67
Book Description
Between Two Fires
Author: Stephen J. PynePublisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816532192
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
From a fire policy of prevention at all costs to today's restored burning, Between Two Fires is America's history channeled through the story of wildland fire management. Stephen J. Pyne tells of a fire revolution that began in the 1960s as a reaction to simple suppression and single-agency hegemony, and then matured into more enlightened programs of fire management. It describes the counterrevolution of the 1980s that stalled the movement, the revival of reform after 1994, and the fire scene that has evolved since then. Pyne is uniquely qualified to tell America’s fire story. The author of more than a score of books, he has told fire’s history in the United States, Australia, Canada, Europe, and the Earth overall. In his earlier life, he spent fifteen seasons with the North Rim Longshots at Grand Canyon National Park. In Between Two Fires, Pyne recounts how, after the Great Fires of 1910, a policy of fire suppression spread from America’s founding corps of foresters into a national policy that manifested itself as a costly all-out war on fire. After fifty years of attempted fire suppression, a revolution in thinking led to a more pluralistic strategy for fire’s restoration. The revolution succeeded in displacing suppression as a sole strategy, but it has failed to fully integrate fire and land management and has fallen short of its goals. Today, the nation’s backcountry and increasingly its exurban fringe are threatened by larger and more damaging burns, fire agencies are scrambling for funds, firefighters continue to die, and the country seems unable to come to grips with the fundamentals behind a rising tide of megafires. Pyne has once again constructed a history of record that will shape our next century of fire management. Between Two Fires is a story of ideas, institutions, and fires. It’s America’s story told through the nation’s flames.
Wildfire Suppression
Author: United States. General Accounting OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forest fires
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Wildland fires Forest Service and BLM need better information and systematic approach for assessing the risks of environmental effects : report to congressional requesters.
Author: Barry T. HillPublisher: DIANE Publishing
ISBN: 1428938788
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 95
Book Description
Decades of fire suppression, as well as changing land management practices, have caused vegetation to accumulate and become altered on federal lands. Concerns about the effects of wildland fires have increased efforts to reduce fuels on federal lands. These efforts also have environmental effects. The requesters asked GAO to (1) describe effects from fires on the environment, (2) assess the information gathered by the Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management (BLM) on such effects, and (3) assess the agencies approaches to environmental risks associated with reducing fuels. This report recommends that the Secretaries of Agriculture and the Interior (1) develop a plan to implement the agencies monitoring framework, (2) develop guidance that formalizes the assessment of landscape-level risks to ecosystems, and (3) clarify existing guidance, working with the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), to assess the risks of environmental effects from reducing fuels.
Wildland Fire Management
Author: United States. General Accounting OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fire management
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description