lecture objectives: 1). understand the history of fire management in the us from the 1900's to...
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Lecture Objectives:
1). Understand the history of fire management in the US from the 1900's to present
2).Know major policy's and key players of fire management in the US from the 1900's to present
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1944 U.S. government's Wartime Council
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Euro-american Settlers and Burning
1. Fire in Agriculture and to clear forest woodlands
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Euro-american Settlers and Burning
2. Fire to heat dwellings and cook food.
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Euro-american Settlers and Burning
3. Fire for slash and burn agriculture
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Note historic decline
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Progressive Era (conservation movement)--saw the welfare of forests at risk and started crusade to prevent forest fires
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Gifford PinchotFirst Forester, 1905-1910
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John Muir
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U.S. Forest Service started in 1905
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Sunset Brg. Co., Wallace, Idaho, Aug 1910 after forest fires burned the town
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NEW policy emerged--complete FIRE SUPPRESSION="fire exclusion policy"
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1) Weeks Act of 1911 2) Clarke-McNary Act of 1924 3) 10AM Policy of 1935
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Longleaf pine (Pinus
palustris)
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late 1970's federal land agencies admitted they were losing battle to fire
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Yellowstone 1988 Wildfire
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-fire mitigation efforts now focusing in the urban-wildland interface zone