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