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National Journal was founded in 1969 as the Government Research Corporation, [5] a premium research service and journalism company, and was published for many years by the Times Mirror Corporation, which also owned the Los Angeles Times at the time.
The International Journal of Wildland Fire is an international scientific journal, published through CSIRO Publishing. As of 2021, Susan G. Conard and Stefan Doerr serve as joint Editors-in-Chief. [1] [2] It is indexed by standard scientific databases, including the Web of Science.
The bottom line of the National Fire Danger Rating System in the day-to-day operation of a fire prevention and suppression program is the staffing class. The staffing class is sometimes referred to as the action class, adjective class, precaution class, preparedness class, or the Industrial Fire Precaution Level (IFPL).
This was only the second day on record to be given the "historically critical" designation on the Red Flag Threat Index (RFTI). [225] April 19: 2018: Arizona, New Mexico [229] 125: 0: April 2018 Arizona-New Mexico wildfires [230] [231] September 15: 2018: Utah, Nevada [232] 86,107 [nb 2] 0: Pole Creek and Bald Mountain wildfires [233] October ...
Pyrogeography is the study of the past, present, and projected distribution of wildfire.Wildland fire occurs under certain conditions of climate, vegetation, topography, and sources of ignition, such that it has its own biogeography, or pattern in space and time.
In 1998, Goldammer established the Global Fire Monitoring Center (GFMC) at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in cooperation with and located at Freiburg University. [10] The start-up of GFMC was financed by the German Federal Foreign Office as a contribution to the UN International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction ( IDNDR ).
A\J: Alternatives Journal—published by the Environmental Studies Association of Canada; Annual Review of Environment and Resources—published by Annual Reviews, Inc.; eco.mont (Journal on Protected Mountain Areas Research and Management)—established by the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the University of Innsbruck, and other organizations—covering mountain research in protected area
A series of fires that lasted ten days; 16 people killed. Destroyed part of Bar Harbor and damaged Acadia National Park. 1949: 4,500 acres (1,800 ha) Mann Gulch fire: Montana: 12 firefighters who parachuted near the fire and 1 forest ranger died after being overtaken by a 200-foot wall of fire at the top of a gulch near Helena, Montana. 1950