This PFX Training Module is a self-paced mini-course that will help you understand how fuel type, characteristics, arrangement, and environment affects fire risk and fire behavior. You will also learn to identify hazardous fuels types and arrangements on a landscape.
This PFX Training Module is a self-paced mini-course that will help you understand how fuel type, characteristics, arrangement, and environment affects fire risk and fire behavior. You will also learn to identify hazardous fuels types and arrangements on a landscape.
Fire shaped the history of forest management in Hawaii in much the same way it did in the continental US.
In “Partner Perspectives” we get to know the diverse people, roles, and views of wildfire management in the Pacific. Jack Minassian kindly spent some time with us discussing his experience in creating…
In “Partner Perspectives” we get to know the diverse people, roles, and views of wildfire management in the Pacific. Name: David G. Smith Role: Administrator Organization: Division of Forestry and Wildlife (DOFAW),…
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Raising public awareness of current fire danger is critical because proactive actions by households and landowners can reduce fire risk and because most fires on Pacific Islands are human-caused. In Hawaii, PFX…
Local knowledge of resources like water, road access, and high priority landscape features (crops, endangered species) is critical to minimizing the impacts caused directly by the wildfire as well as the impacts…
Predictions for El Nino’s effects on climate and wildfire in the Pacific (2015). DOWNLOAD PDF