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The notion of fire as a tool had somewhat evolved by the late 1970s as the National Park Service authorized and administered controlled burns. [67] Following prescribed fire reintroduction, the Yellowstone fires of 1988 occurred, which significantly politicized fire management. The ensuing media coverage was a spectacle that was vulnerable to ...
The slow progress of ‘good fire’ According to Cal Fire data, about 100,000 acres were treated with prescribed burns last year — up from about 50,000 acres from 2020. But a variety of ...
The agency plans to chip away at the problem with the roughly 11,300 wildland firefighters it ... The National Prescribed Fire Act of 2024 would direct hundreds of millions of dollars to the ...
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 2001, the United States implemented a National Fire Plan, increasing the budget for the reduction of hazardous fuels from $108 million in 2000 to $401 million. [5] In addition to using prescribed fire to reduce the chance of catastrophic wildfires, mechanical methods have recently been adopted as well.
Fire managers from the Santa Fe National Forest began the North Joaquin prescribed fire project on Thursday, completing the ignition of 700 of the 1,701-acre area by the end of the day.
Prescribed Burn in Oak Savannah in Iowa. Restoration ecology is the name given to an attempt to reverse or mitigate some of the changes that humans have caused to an ecosystem. Controlled burning is one tool that is currently receiving considerable attention as a means of restoration and management. Applying fire to an ecosystem may create ...
Careful, controlled fire can be beneficial to south-central Indiana lands. Landowners can learn more about using prescribed burns to maintain forest and grassland biodiversity in two forums and ...