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Video object code Why Wildfires Keep Getting Bigger (Video)
The first of four (4) recorded PowerPoint presentations given during the "Preparing for Large Wildfires in New Mexico" workshop series, April 2018.
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File Troff document Why Wildfires Keep Getting Bigger: an Introduction to Wildland Fires in New Mexico (PowerPoint presentation)
This is just the PowerPoint slides, no recording: The opening presentation to the 3-hour "Preparing for Large Wildfires in New Mexico" workshop. We cover fire ecology, fire regimes, and the need for mitigation.
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File image/x-icon Why Wildfires Keep Getting Bigger: an Introduction to Wildland Fires in New Mexico (PDF)
PowerPoint presentation (PDF version). Presented by Mary Stuever, NM State Forestry Chama District Forester at Preparing for Large Wildfires in New Mexico workshop series, April 2018.
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An unprecedented 40-year experiment in a 40,000 acre valley of Yosemite National Park strongly supports the idea that managing fire, rather than suppressing it, makes wilderness areas more resilient to fire, with the added benefit of increased water availability and resistance to drought. After a three-year assessment of the Park's Illilouette Creek Basin, UC Berkeley researchers concluded that a strategy dating to 1973 of managing wildfires with minimal suppression and almost no prescribed burns has created a landscape more resistant to catastrophic fire, with more diverse vegetation, forest structure and increased water storage. "When fire is not suppressed, you get all these benefits: increased stream flow, increased downstream water availability, increased soil moisture, which improves habitat for the plants in the watershed. And it increases the drought resistance of the remaining trees and also increases the fire resilience because you have created these natural firebreaks," said Gabrielle Boisramé, graduate student at UC Berkeley's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and first author of the study. The Cohesive Wildland Fire Strategy supports management of fires where possible. Managing fires is part of the Cohesive Strategy vision: to safely and effectively suppress fires, use fire where allowable, manage our natural resources, and as a Nation, live with wildland fire. Read the full article and find the published study at: ttp://wildfireinthewest.blogspot.com/2016/10/wildfire-management-vs-suppression.html.
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Wildland Fire Data in Google Earth
You can view wildland fire data in Google Earth
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Publication of Wildland Fire Lessons Learned Center.
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Audio Postcard from KUNM's Anna Lande and YCC crew leaders at the Valle de Oro Wildlife Refuge. Aired July 8, 2016.
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