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Through these and similar public education campaigns the general public was, in a sense, trained to perceive all wildfire as a threat to civilized society and natural resources. The negative sentiment towards wildland fire prevailed and helped to shape wildland fire management objectives throughout most of the 20th century.
Wildfire suppression in the United States has had a long and varied history. For most of the 20th century, any form of wildland fire, whether it was naturally caused or otherwise, was quickly suppressed for fear of uncontrollable and destructive conflagrations such as the Peshtigo Fire in 1871 and the Great Fire of 1910. In the 1960s, policies ...
May 5—Two years after the most destructive fire in New Mexico history, the U.S. Forest Service has changed the planning process for prescribed fires and created new training for fighting fires ...
Fire history, the ecological science of studying the history of wildfires, is a subdiscipline of fire ecology. Patterns of forest fires in historical and prehistorical times provide information relevant to the vegetation pattern in modern landscapes.
To better understand where the Smokehouse Creek fire fits into the historical context of wildfires across the country, Singleton Schreiber analyzed records of nearly 300,000 reported wildland ...
However, from a historical perspective, it has been estimated that prior to 1850, about 4.5 million acres (17,000 km 2) burned yearly, in fires that lasted for months, with wildfire activity peaking roughly every 30 years, when up to 11.8 million acres (47,753 km 3) of land burned.
Started by lightning, it is the second largest wildfire in Colorado state history by size. 2012: 18,247 acres (7,384 ha) Waldo Canyon Fire: Colorado: Rampart Range and West Colorado Springs with 346 homes destroyed primarily in the Mountain Shadows neighborhood, it is the second most destructive fire in state history. Two fatalities reported. 2012
There have been many notable wildfires in the history of the US state Oregon. List. 1902 Yacolt Burn; 1933–1951 Tillamook Burn 1933, 1939, 1945 [1] Bandon Fire ...