Closing Remarks: Sustaining Healthy Ecosystems With Prescribed Fire in the Southeast A Dream, A Theme Robert W. Mutch
A Dream: Safely Sustaining Healthy Ecosystems with RX Fire on a Landscape Scale
A Team: Integrating a network of human resources to define, refine, and implement the Theme on a landscape scale.
The Theme: Implement a Program of Systematic RX Fire Applications in Time and Space
Cost + Loss > Systematic Prescribed Fire Model Evaluation Monitoring Holding Ignition Rx Approval Planning Safety Air Quality Public Support Media Liability Training Funding Time >
Steve Pyne on Prescribed Fire “Too much of the wrong kind of fire & not enough of the right kind. ”
The Poetry of Wildfire
Primary Reasons for Rx Burning in U. S. · Fire hazard reduction……. . 64. 1 % · Silviculture…………………. 17. 9 % · Vegetation management…. . 2. 5 % · Range improvement………. . 1. 2 % · Wildlife habitat……………… 9. 8 % · Others…………… 4. 5 % From Peterson et al. (1993)
FS 1997 -2002 Rx Fire Trend Year 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 Total Acres Burned 1, 097, 658 1, 489, 293 1, 412, 281 772, 374 1, 319, 934 1, 051, 304 7, 142, 844
Prescribed Burn Acres in SE 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 552, 325 583, 453 531, 822 728, 930 758, 044 950, 718 455, 942 678, 865 761, 313 935, 027 1, 043, 618
Rx Fire Issues in the Southeast · Safety · Rx Fire Training · Growing Season Burning · Wilderness Fire · Diverse Eco-Region Burning · Wildland/Urban Interface
Smoke Related Accidents
Cramer Fire Fatality Site, 2003
Lessons Never Learned 1949: 13 Deaths 2003: 2 Deaths
Rx Fire Training Center
Dormant Season Burning
Growing Season Burning
Big Gum Swamp Wilderness
“Have We Done Enough? ” Can We Do More?
“Between a Rock & a Hard Place” “Motivation can overcome the impossible. ”
Estimate of Rx Fire by Eco-Region, R-8 · 96 % Coastal Plain · 3 % Ozark Highlands · 1% Appalachians and Piedmont
Lagadec, in “Preventing Chaos in a Crisis”: “…the ability to deal with a crisis situation is largely dependent on the structures that have been developed before chaos arrives. ”
“The event can in some ways be considered as an abrupt and brutal audit at a moment’s notice. ”
“Everything that was left unprepared becomes a complex problem, and every weakness comes to the forefront. ”
“You do things the opposite in U. S. Interface. ”
Prepare, Stay, and Defend--the Ultimate in Teamwork (AFAC) · The Dream: houses are able to survive fires even when Fire Service personnel are not available. · The Team: consists of the effective partnership between Fire Services and home dwellers. · Theme: comprises the dual strategy of adequate defendable space coupled with the home dweller’s motivation to remain on-site.
Wedge Fire, Montana, USA, 2003
Lady of the House Makes OJ
Volunteer Fireman Celebrates
The Reason to Stay
“It is hard to know what to do with all the detail that rises out of fire. ”
“It rises out of a fire as thick as smoke and threatens to blot out everything…”
“Some of it is true but doesn’t make any difference. ”
“Some of it is just plain wrong…”
“And some doesn’t even exist, except in your mind, as you slowly discover long afterwards. ”
“Some of it, though, is true —and makes all the difference. ” Norman Maclean Young Men and Fire
“Have We Done Enough? ” Can We Do More?
Rx Fire Issues in the Southeast · Safety · Rx Fire Training · Growing Season Burning · Wilderness Fire · Diverse Eco-Region Burning · Wildland/Urban Interface
The Dream: Look Where You Are Going!
The Theme: Go Where You Are Looking!
“Thank You for Leading the Way!”
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