- Author
- Rossomando, C.
- Title
- Wildlands Fire Management: Federal Policies and Their Implications for Local Fire Departments. USFA Fire Investigation Technical Report Series.
- Coporate
- TriData Corp., Arlington, VA
- Sponsor
- Federal Emergency Management Agency, Washington, DC
- Report
- Report 045, 1991, 50 p.
- Contract
- EMW-90-C-3338
- Keywords
- fire investigations | wildland fires | fire departments | management systems | forest fires | urban fires | urban/wildland interface
- Identifiers
- Clover-Mist and North Fork Fires, Greater Yellowstone Area, 1988; "49er" Fire in California, Gold Rush County, Sierra, Nevada County, California, September 1988
- Abstract
- The United States Fire Administration has prepared this report for fire service professionals interested in keeping abreast of developments affecting forest and wildland firefighting policies of the federal government and the fire problem in the rapidly growing wildland/urban interface areas. This paper looks at two of the major wildfires of 1988 and the policy issues that surrounded them: The Greater Yellowstone Area fires and the "49er" fire that caused more than $20 million in damage in the Gold Rush Country of Nevada County, California. Through the years, U. S. Forest Service (USFS) and National Park Service (NPS) fire management policies have taken many forms. An early belief in the importance of suppressing all fires in wildlands evolved into current policies that reflect a basic belief that fire is natural to many wildlands and plays a vital role in the ecology of those lands. the Greater Yellowstone Area (GYA) fires provided a crucial test under extreme conditions of National Park Service and Forest Service wildfire management policies in effect in 1988.