A Century of Wildland Fire Research Contributions to Long-term Approaches for Wildland Fire Management: Proceedings of a Workshop (2017) / Chapter Skim
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6 Breakout Sessions
6 Breakout Sessions
Pages 73-80
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At the conclusion of the rotations, participants reconvened to discuss the outcomes of the afternoon's conversations. KEY RESEARCH EFFORTS While discussing key research efforts, participants were asked to keep in mind the following questions: • How can fire management practices be improved through learning from regional differences in fire ecology?
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In addition to managing fire better and helping communities live with fire, many participants thought that finding answers to these questions would help address issues related to wildland fire and climate change, such as determining when to manage burned areas for restoration versus letting the habitat change to a new ecosystem, providing adequate habitat for endangered plant and animal species, and anticipating and planning for changes to hydrology in burned landscapes. The participants of this breakout session highlighted areas of research deserving attention: • At the wildland–urban interface (WUI)
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Planning committee member Anupma Prakash served as the moderator for the session focused on technology. She presented to the afternoon participants the five top technologies to be promoted for use in operational fire and resource management that surfaced from the afternoon's discussions.
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To develop such a tool, how fire spreads first needs to be better understood, one participant said; gaining a better understanding of fire spread will require more experimentation with fires fed by different types of fuel. INTEGRATING SCIENCE INTO MANAGEMENT AND POLICY In the session about integrating science into management and policy, planning committee member Rod Linn asked participants to consider the following questions: • What is known in terms of fire science and fire and fuels management that should be used and what are the barriers to that use?
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More engagement between the exchange networks and state-level officials and private landowners would also be useful, a participant observed. Including scientists on the fire line would provide fire managers with a resource to help them determine which ones of the many scientific and fire management tools available have the most utility in a given fire situation.
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Some participants noted that field trips could help with reaching agreement in communities to help diverse stakeholders better understand the risks and tradeoffs. Others said federal, state, local, and private land managers need to come together long before a fire occurs to be in a position to readily implement land and fire management plans when needed.
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SUMMARY OF BREAKOUT SESSIONS The breakout sessions were structured to respond to wildland fire research status, needs, and challenges outlined in the statement of task, specifically: • Helping wildland fire managers and responders discriminate between "good" and "bad" fires; • Adaptive fire and forest management; • Proactive approaches to landscape level fuel management; and • Societal needs and considerations to support and implement long-term wildland fire management strategies. With regard to the first item, it was clear that many participants, particularly those who participated in the stakeholder engagement breakout session, thought that the dichotomy of "good" and "bad" fire was too strong.
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More studies of post-fire habitats, particularly comparisons between burned and unburned land following a fire, would provide information about future fire risks; some participants thought that such research in different fire regimes would be beneficial because a better understanding of post-fire effects would help fire scientists and fire managers communicate with communities about the fire risks and tradeoffs specific to their area. Technologies such as drones and imaging tools at multiple spectral scales could help collect much of the data that would inform better adaptive management approaches for fire, forests, and fuels.
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