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Survey responses also indicate a lack of agency training on climate information and decision-support tools. We found that wildland fire use managers consider climate to be an important aspect of managed fire and use various types of climate information, but prescribed-fire managers do not generally consider climate or use climate information in their planning activities. We conducted 223 surveys with fire managers to ascertain how climate information is utilised in managed-fire decision-making. We hypothesised that if climate is an important component of managed fire, the fire community would already be aware of this and using climate information in order to mitigate risks associated with managed fires. prescribed fire and wildland fire use) has not yet been addressed.

International Journal of Wildland Fire 19: 364–373.Ībstract: Climate–wildfire relationships have been widely addressed by the scientific community over the last two decades however, the role of climate in managed fire in the US (i.e. Beyond wildfire: perspectives of climate, managed fire and policy in the USA. Managers may fail to appreciate the diverse viewpoints that exist among the public with respect to fire management.” Read Moreįull Citation: Kolden CA, Brown TJ. How these attitudes are put into practice are shaped by other factors, including agency beliefs about public expectations for fire management. Our interviewees recognized that there were multiple options available for managing a fire. Key Excerpts: “Agency attitudes about fire management options are changing. Our findings did not wholly support conventional wisdom and suggest that internal pressures are as important as external pressure in shaping fire management strategy. This article details how these internal and external factors influence flexibility in fire management. External factors included political and community pressures from the public who are often perceived to demand an aggressive suppression response. Internal factors included procedural requirements and agency beliefs and attitudes. We also interviewed community members to understand whether they sought to influence fire management.

At each site, we interviewed key agency individuals and asked them about internal and external factors that influenced their fire management decisions. In the summer of 2008, our research team traveled to two fires-the Gap in California and Gunbarrel in Wyoming-each of which used a different strategy for managing the fire. This entails validating or refuting the perceptions of fire managers about the relative constraints that external pressures place on their ability to implement more flexible fire management options. Thus, a better understanding of external constraints on fire management options is essential. 454-461.Ībstract: Conventional wisdom within American federal fire management agencies suggests that external influence such as community or political pressure for aggressive suppression are key factors circumscribing the ability to execute less aggressive fire management strategies.

What Is Limiting More Flexible Fire Management-Public or Agency Pressure? Journal of Forestry.

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Full Citation: Steelman TA, McCaffrey SM.

Paradigm shift in management philosophy