Wildlands Fire Management: Federal Policies and Their Implications for Local Fire Departments (1988)

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.

» Executive Summary
» Actions Since 1988
» Wildland/Urban Interface
» The Fires
» Policies and Issues
» Development of Federal Fire Management Policies
» The Tillamook Burn and the "10 a.m. Policy"
» The "Leopold Report": The Role of Natural Fire and Use of Prescribed Burns in the Park Service
» Natural Fire and Use of Prescribed Burns by the Forest Service
» Common Ground Is Reached
» The Role of the Natural Fire in Wilderness Areas
» A Comparison: Canada’s Wildland Fire Policy
» THE “LET BURN” POLICY AND THE USE OF PRESCRIBED FIRE IN WILDLANDS IN 1988
» Interagency and Intergovernmental Coordination of Wildland Firefighting Efforts
» IMPLEMENTATION OF FEDERAL POLICIES IN THE YELLOWSTONE FIRES
» NPS and USFS Fire Investigation Reports
» FIRE MANAGEMENT POLICY REVIEW TEAM RECOMMENDATIONS
» POST-YELLOWSTONE NPS AND USFS FIRE MANAGEMENT
» The 1990 Fires
» THE WILDLAND/URBAN INTERFACE FIRE PROBLEM
» MEASURES TO MINIMIZE FIRE DANGER
» The Compliance Problem: Successful Approaches
» Ongoing Initiatives
» AFTERMATH OF THE 1988 WILDFIRE SEASON: LESSONS LEARNED FOR THE FIRE SERVICE

Reproduced from Report 045 of the Major Fires Investigation Project conducted by TriData Corporation under contract EMW-90-C-3338. Report by: Christina Rossomando

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