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Page, Wesley G.; Butler, Bret W. 2019 Assessing Wildland Firefighter Entrapment. Fire Management Today; September 2019-Vol.77-No.3

Safety Zones on Slopes, Safety Zones and Wind, Escape Routes, Operational Implications, Management Implications, Tools, etc.

Report covers a trip to Nepal funded by United States Department of State, United States Forest Service (USFS), and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), and in collaboration with World Wildlife Fund-Nepal. Mission objectives were to provide observations and recommendations of fire management in Nepal after visiting with Nepal Government, stakeholders and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) active in fire management issues.

Whitebark pine has been rapidly declining on many National Forests in the northwestern United States over the last three decades because of blister rust infections and mountain pine beetle outbreaks, which have been exacerbated by recent warmer climates. Great care should be taken to preserve, protect, and conserve the remaining whitebark pine because their populations are so low that future disturbances, especially those facilitated by climate change, could cause local extinctions of this valuable keystone species that provides food to hundreds of wildlife species. Silvicultural cuttings and ...