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Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy Northeast Region
Resilient Landscapes - Fire-Adapted Communities - Safe and Effective Wildfire Response
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The Northeast Regional Strategy Committee (NE RSC) provides executive leadership, coordination, and guidance to carry out the Northeast Regional Action Plan while providing a forum for members to guide strategic direction for fire and land management activities. The NE RSC continues to collaboratively recognize, support, and help with National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy goals and implementation efforts.
NE RSC Chair: Brad Simpkins, New Hampshire State Forester
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Wildland Urban Interface: Fire Adapted Communities (R0614)
January 18-23, 2015
March 22-27, 2015
August 2-7, 2015
Wildland Fire Courses - Fall 2014
S-212 Wildland Powersaws December 9 -12, 2014
S-270 Air Ops
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Regional
Upper Midwest Invasive Species Conference
October 20-22, 2014
Duluth, MN
TPOS and LSFSC is hosting a special fire and invasives session as part of this Conference.
A Lake States and Tallgrass Prairie and Oak Savanna Fire ScienceĀ Burning Issues Symposium: How do we integrate competing objectives in land management and restoration?
January 13-14, 2015
Fort Custer Training Center, Augusta, MI
Stewardship Network 2015 Conference
2015 Science, Practice & Art of Restoring Native Ecosystems Conference
January 23-24, 2015
Kellogg Center, East Lansing, MI
Midwest Fire Conference
Tallgrass Prairie and Oak Savanna Fire Science Consortium
February 17-19, 2015 Dubuque, Iowa
National
Wildland Urban Interface Conference
March 24-26, 2015
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Northeast Region Cohesive Strategy Key Contacts
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Brad Simpkins
Chair
New Hampshire Division of Forests and Lands
172 Pembroke Road
PO Box 1856
Concord, NH 03302-1856
Terry Gallagher
Technical Working Group Lead
U.S. Forest Service, Eastern Region
Maureen Brooks
Communications Working Group Lead
U.S. Forest Service, Northeastern Area S&PF
Larry Mastic
Coordinator, Northeast Region
Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy
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October 2014
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Prescribed Burn at the Northern Great Lakes Visitor Center
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Visitors to the Northern Great Lakes Visitor Center in Ashland, WI, view the prescribed burn on May 15, 2014.
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The Northern Great Lakes Visitor Center (NGLVC) in Ashland, WI, burned 23 acres of grassland habitat to reduce non-native invasive species, promote native plants, and educate the public about prescribed burns. Read full story.
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The Fire-Oak Synthesis Project
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In 2010, a request for proposals was issued to synthesize the existing fire-oak literature. The ultimate goal was to develop guidelines for using prescribed fire to restore and sustain upland oak ecosystems in Eastern North America. This report is the culmination of that project and is divided into the following chapters:
- Fire History of Eastern North America
- Adaptions of Oak to Fire
- Review of Fire Effects Studies
- Guidelines for Using Fire in Oak Ecosystems
Read the publication here.
Source: Firescience.gov Friday Flash eNews Issue 102 September 12, 2014
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Dr. Stephen Pyne Looks At the U.S.
"Fire Revolution" Over the Past Century
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The Great Fires of 1910, also known as " The Big Blowup", were collectively a formative trauma for the American wildland fire community. These fires, scattered over six distinct areas in the northern Rocky Mountains, burned more than 3 million acres, killed 78 firefighters, and launched a national debate about fire policy.
Dr. Stephen Pyne, a professor in the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University, specializes in environmental history and the history of fire. In his presentation at the National Fire Protection Association's Backyards & Beyond conference in Salt Lake City, he used the recent centennial of the 1910 events to offer his perspective on what the Big Blowup meant more than 100 years ago and what we've learned, how we've changed, and where we might go next.
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Barriers to Understanding the Influence of Use of Fire by Aborigines on Vegetation
with an Introduction by M. Kat Anderson
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Contributed to this newsletter by Jim Erickson
Author: Omer C. Stewart
In March 1963, anthropologist Omer Stewart delivered a paper at the second annual Tall Timbers Fire Ecology Conference in Tallahassee, FL, about the ecological significance of the use of fire by aboriginal peoples around the world. This paper, published later that year in a conference proceedings, is being reprinted here because, 50 years hence, it has become clear that it represents a turning point in our understanding of intentional burning by indigenous people and its effects on vegetation.
View Full Abstract and PDF.
Source: Fire Ecology Journal, Volume 10(2), August 2014
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Next Generation Fire Modeling for Advanced Wildland Fire Training
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The Air Force Wildland Fire Center (AFWFC) at Eglin AFB, in collaboration with Los Alamos National Lab (LANL), has initiated a project to demonstrate and validate the capabilities of a physics-based, fluid dynamics wildland fire spread model, FIRETEC, to simulate fire behavior from prescribed fires in southeastern fuels.
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Forest Fire Warden Training Held in Pennsylvania
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On September 12, the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources held its annual forest fire warden training in East Earl, PA. Forest fire wardens have been responding to wildfires and conducting fire prevention programs for over 100 years in Pennsylvania. Maureen Brooks, Cooperative Fire Specialist for Northeastern Area State and Private Forestry Fire and Aviation Management, delivered the training presentation.
Source: Chief's Desk Weekly News - Friday, September 19, 2014
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Wisconsin DNR Sends Staff to Assist on Out-Of-State Fires
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Contributed by Jolene Ackerman, WI DNR
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources has sent 22 fire control staff members to assist on out-of-state fire details since July 26, 2014. This opportunity has provided assistance to partners in Idaho, Oregon, and Washington while benefiting Wisconsin's Forestry program by providing staff with needed training and experience.
Out-of-State Mobilization Summary:
- WI Interagency Crew #3 - 5 Personnel to Idaho
- WI Interagency Crew #4 - 7 Personnel, including a crew boss and crew boss trainee, to Oregon and Washington
- WI Interagency Crew #6 - 2 Personnel to Oregon
- 8 Single Resource assignments to Washington, Oregon, and Idaho, including Task Force Leader Priority Trainee and a member of the Rocky Mountain IMT
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U.S. Forest Service Gets to the Heart of Wildland Firefighters
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A crew of wildland firefighters begins their trek into a fire. Their specialty is wildfire suppression, but they sometimes perform other work, including search and rescue and disaster response assistance. (U.S. Forest Service)
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Posted by Robert Westover, Office of Communication, U.S. Forest Service, on October 3, 2014 at 11:34 AM
It takes a certain type of person to fight wildfires. It's not what they look like. Or sound like. It's not their heritage or their culture. It's their heart.
A 7-minute U.S. Forest Service recruitment video, "The Heart of a Firefighter," takes viewers as close to being a firefighter as possible through a small screen. Read full story here.
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County-Wide Wildland Fire Program in Barnstable County, MA
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In 2011, Barnstable County's Cape Cod Cooperative Extension funded the development of a county-wide Community Wildfire Protection Plan (CWPP) for Cape Cod. Barnstable County has conducted a Wildfire Preparedness Planning program since 2005 with the goal of reducing wildfire hazards on municipal lands and educating the public about wildland fire risk on Cape Cod. Individual plans had been written for priority properties, yet it was observed that many towns lack the information required to identify wildland fire hazards and prioritize town lands for treatment.
The resulting 2012 Barnstable County Wildfire Preparedness Plan drafted by Northeast Forest and Fire Management, LLC, maps wildfire hazard and identifies the threat level for all of Cape Cod, giving natural resource managers and conservation agents the tools to guide site-specific wildfire preparedness planning. Read full story here.
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The Town of Plymouth Has Active Interagency Community Protection and Prescribed Fire Program
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Contributed by Ed Bradley, Town of Plymouth Fire Chief
 The Town of Plymouth, Massachusetts, the oldest and largest town in the Commonwealth, hosts many unique features that pose significant public safety and all-hazard concerns. Vast ocean fronts, a nuclear power plant, numerous large and small bodies of fresh water, and a 100-square-mile area are among some of the features that comprise the Town of Plymouth.
Noteworthy is the natural vegetation type--pitch pine and scrub oak. This vegetation nearly dominates the landscape in an area dubbed the "Pinehills" and has been identified by numerous experts as the third most combustible, volatile fuel type in the United States, next to the chaparral of southern California and the pine barrens of New Jersey.
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