Slide Fire Example of Suppression Tactics There has been a quiet but dramatic shift in fire management over the past few years – more indirect tactics, using natural features for control line, low impact suppression. These tools have been part of the fire manager’s toolkit for decades but concerns with safety, firefighting expense, and the …
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2011 Horseshoe 2 Fire Factsheet 2011 Horseshoe 2 Fire Chiricahua Mountains, Arizona Factsheet November 5, 2012
WUFS Call for Presenters Fall 2020 Call for Presentations for the 2020 New Mexico Wildland Urban Fire Summit in Las Vegas, San Miguel County, NM on October 22-23, 2020 Theme: All Lands, All Neighbors (for wildfire resilience) Audience: The NM Wildland Urban Summit is attended by community members, fire service volunteers and professionals, non-profit conservation …
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We constantly seek ways to improve dissemination of fire science information. Through support from the Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP), the consortium is able to fund: Field tours/workshops 2-3 per year, up to $1,300 each Travel Grants available, read more about travel grants here Webinars/lessons learned/working papers Funding is available. Let us put your ideas to work! Complete a Workshop …
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2019 Wildfire Season Overview 2019 Wildfire Season: An Overview Southwestern US Published: June 2020 Authors: Michael Lynch and Alexander Evans
Summer 2014 Newsletter PDF of our 2014 summer newsletter
Whitewater Baldy Fire Factsheet Written by Jose Iniguez November 2012 If you attended the AFE conference last March and went on the Los Conchas field trip you may remember hearing that managers in the Jemez Mountains were actually expecting another big fire year in 2012. This was because the fire-scar fire history records contained a …
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Recognizing that budgets are tight, especially when it comes to travel, we allocate travel funds for many of our wildfire-related events. These travel grants are open for any member of the fire community to apply, including emergency managers, municipalities, state agency employees, community leaders, and more. We can offer up to $480 per person. We …
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