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2 Fire Science Research in the U.S. Forest Service
2 Fire Science Research in the U.S. Forest Service
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Its broad program areas are landscape restoration and ecosystem services, sustainable forest management, science policy, planning and inventory, and forest product research. Rodriguez-Franco drew specific attention to one more program area: wildland fire research, the focus of the workshop.
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The Research and Development Unit conducts research on federal, state, and private lands in partnerships with other government agencies, universities and other research institutions, industry, and local government organizations and has produced more than 45,000 publications. The work of the Forest Service Research and Development Unit sustains America's forests and improves lives and American society by benefiting the environment, creating jobs, supporting local economies, and saving lives, particularly when wildland fires occur because of adverse environmental conditions.
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Department of the Interior, the National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy. The cohesive strategy reached out to everyone that interacts with wildland fire policy and management -- local communities, counties, cities, and states.
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The 7,000 wildfires that burn on Forest Service land each year are just 10 percent of the wildland fires that occur every year in the United States. Therefore, wildland fire is not just a federal agency issue.
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A 1904 memorandum found in the National Archives, probably written by Pinchot himself although there is no attribution or specific date, confirms the timeline of the beginning of fire science research in the Forest Service (Figure 2-1)
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Jack Barrows was hired by Gisborne to conduct a number of projects and was instrumental in establishing the Missoula Fire Sciences Laboratory and securing federal funding for addiional regional laboratories in California and Georgia. t There were also infamous researchers in the early days of the Forest Service.
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and with a request that researchers document their work for historians to piece together. Today's paper trail will help tell the story of forest and fire science research 100 years from now.
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