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5 Living with Fire: State of the Science around Fire-Adapted Communities
5 Living with Fire: State of the Science around Fire-Adapted Communities
Pages 59-72
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Steelman, University of Saskatchewan Steelman began by saying that she prepared her presentation from the perspective of what a line officer in the Forest Service needs to know in order to work effectively the 2017 fire season and for future fire seasons. The main framing question is: What kind of decision space will line officers have under the current presidential administration and Congress to accomplish their given goals?
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Department of the Interior, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency FIGURE 5-1 The interplay of social and ecological components in wildland fire management across time and space.
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An option for meeting this goal is to coordinate a wildland response network, which brings together local-level entities -- including fire and disaster management officials, local government representatives, and the media -- before a wildland fire happens so they can perform effectively and collaboratively during a fire. Too often fire management is thought about as only federal, state, and local fire services, but effective management actually requires much broader participation for frontline action, particularly when trying to manage something like a big box burn.
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What does that social diversity mean when people may have differing abilities to reduce fuels on their properties or when they may have different capabilities for writing grants to get money for fire management or adaptation activities? How does that social diversity affect whether they stay and defend their properties, as they often do in many of the places that he has studied?
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Rural lifestyle communities often have diffuse patterns, and people in these communities may be more interested in privacy. A difficulty in conducting prescribed burns or creating collective fuel breaks in these types of communities is that they often want to have wildlife habitat or traditional activities, like hunting, near their homes.
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In some cases, communities advocate that no government involvement is necessary for them to adapt to living with fire. Paveglio and colleagues are currently testing different policies -- such as Community Wildfire Protection Plans at different scales, incentives, and matching grants -- across the community archetypes to • See how policies may be better supported in some places than others, and • Work on co-developing the type of knowledge needed to be able to identify what types of policies will work in which types of community.
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TRANSLATING FIRE SCIENCE INTO FIRE MANAGEMENT J Kevin Hiers, Tall Timbers Research Station & Land Conservancy Before he was a wildland fire scientist at Tall Timbers Research Station, Hiers was a land manager at Eglin Air Force Base near Valparaiso, Florida, which has one of the nation's largest fire management programs.
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More incentives need to be provided for social scientists to participate in and contribute to solutions. Many building blocks exist for moving toward this new approach, including prescribed fire councils, regional fire exchanges through the Joint Fire Science Program, and the rescribed Fire Science Consortium.
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The homeowner needs to interact on his or her property with someone he or she trusts, such as a volunteer from the fire department, a local wildfire council member, or a state forest service representative. To find ways to solve the last-mile problem of homeowners taking action, Champ is part of an interdisciplinary research collaboration team called Wildfire Research (WiRē)
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Image courtesy of the Colorado State Forest Service. of Land Management.
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Champ responded that often when the fire science community talks about the public, their notions of who or what the public is are not supported by data. Once the social piece has been investigated, it frequently turns out there is more support for fire on the landscape in fire-prone communities than was originally presumed or at least there may be a foothold of support that may grow with more communication from fire scientists and fire managers.
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Hiers noted that, for fire management at Eglin Air Force Base and several other military installations in the Southeast, the Endangered Species Act was an extremely beneficial tool for reducing wildfire risk on those properties. Fire-dependent endangered species like the red-cockaded woodpecker had large populations on U.S.
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Craig Allen asked what is known about public acceptance of smoke from the prescribed burning in the Southeast. Hiers said that smoke clearly is a tremendous impediment to conducting prescribed fire.
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That kind of information will help researchers, managers, and policymakers better understand the risk–risk tradeoffs of prescribed fire smoke, which include: when people know smoke is coming, will they leave the area, stay indoors, or choose to be exposed to the smoke? Paveglio added that the way social impacts of fire are understood is not well developed.
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