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Fire Management

Fire management involves activities ranging from the management and reduction of hazardous fuels vegetation to protect communities, municipal watersheds, and threatened and endangered wildlife species, to the rehabilitation and restoration of areas impacted by fire. The websites listed below provide information on some of the major programs currently underway (including tools that organize the information by state or even areas within a state).

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National Wildfire Programs Database
The National Wildfire Programs Database (NWPD) is a national database of state and local wildfire hazard mitigation programs. NWPD serves as a clearinghouse of information about nonfederal policies and programs that seek to reduce the risk of loss of life and property through the reduction of hazardous fuels on private lands.
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The Fire Initiative
The Nature Conservancy's Fire Initiative oversees fire management on TNC preserves nationwide, fosters fire ecology research, and promotes the judicious use of prescribed fire to meet biodiversity conservation needs through publications, information exchange, and fire policy reviews. The Fire Initiative publishes a technical newsletter, Rx Fire Notes, and has been active on the National Commission of Wildfire Disasters and the Federal Wildland Fire Policy and Program Review. The Fire Initiative also provides prescribed fire training for TNC staff and cooperators. Each year the Fire Initiative conducts intensive Workshops on Ecological Burning, which emphasize fire ecology, and the technical aspects of prescribed burning, and provide hands-on experience during training burns and site fire management planning exercises. Participants in these Workshops must have completed the National Wildfire Coordinating Group's S-390 Fire Behavior course.
Wildfire Tools Fire Management Education 
Fire.org
Fire management information systems and software products are provided by "fire.org". The website is designed for wildland fire professionals and students who require access to the latest software, documentation, and technical papers developed by Systems for Environmental Management and the USDA Forest Service, USDI National Park Service, USDI Bureau of Land Management for use by federal, state, and local fire management agencies. Fire.org is a cooperative effort by Systems for Environmental Management, Missoula, MT and the Fire Sciences Laboratory of the Rocky Mountain Research Station, USDA Forest Service, Missoula, MT.
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Hazardous Fuel Reduction Research
Successful reduction of hazardous fuel requires that managers have knowledge about the location of fuel accumulations, and are able to evaluate and prioritize treatment alternatives accounting for trade-offs among different objectives. Researchers with knowledge of remote sensing technology, spatial data analysis and modeling systems, and fundamental science and simulation techniques can help find solutions to complex managerial problems.
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National Fire Plan FY 2002 Programs
  • for Arizona
  • for New Mexico
  • Society Fire Management Fire Prevention 
    National Fire Plan Fuels Reduction Program
  • Arizona
  • New Mexico
  • Fire Management Education 
    Wildland Fire Training Information
    Training and other related information that is useful to the wildland fire community is available on-line at Southwest Geographic Area Wildland Fire Training. This is part of the national Wildland Fire Training program, which use the web to enable access to Local Area, Geographic Area, National, and other related Interagency Wildland Fire Training information.
    Tools Fire Management Data 
    FRAMES – Information Exchange
    The goal of the Fire Research And Management Exchange System (FRAMES) is to be an effective mechanism for wildland fire technology and information transfer.
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    Ecology Fire Management 
    Burned Area Rehabilitation and Restoration
    The Burned Area Emergency Rehabilitation (BAER) is a USDA Forest Service program with several goals.
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    Fire Management Education 
    BAER and Satellite Imagery
    NASA's Earth Observatory from October 23, 2002 provides insight into how geospatial technology like satellite imagery and computerized mapping can be used assist the post-fire Burned Areas Emergency Rehabiliation (BAER) effort of the U.S. Forest Service.
    Wildland Fire Lessons Learned
    Interagency Organizational Learning
    Lessons Learned is an interagency program supported by the Federal Fire and Aviation Leadership Council consisting of the five federal fire agencies.
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    Wildland Fire Mitigation Considered Cost-Effective
    National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA)
    A panel from the National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA) found that wildland fires could be managed in a more cost-effective manner through cooperation, sharing responsibilities for fire suppression, and working with incentive programs.
    Wildfire Suppression: Strategies for Containing Costs (2002) provides the panel's recommendations.
    Background and Research Report (2002) provides the case studies and other research on which the panel based its recommendations.

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