Fourth Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology

5.1

Roadmap for a national wildland fire research and development program

Richard Wagoner, NCAR, Boulder, CO; and M. M. Bradley and R. R. Linn

An overview of a National Wildfire R&D Program will be presented. The three main components of this program -- wildfire science, societal impacts and operational applications -- will be described in detail. Smoke management, prescribed burns, wildfire mitigation and fuels assessment will be highligted as cross-cutting themes. This new initiative will be supported and developed by national laboratories, universities, federal/state/county fire agencies, Environmental Protection Agency, Federal Emergency Management Agency and the Western Governor's Association.

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Session 5, Decision-Making Tools
Wednesday, 14 November 2001, 1:50 PM-3:20 PM

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