Global Wildfire Awareness & Fire News from International Association of Wildland Fire
International Journal of Wildland Fire is published on behalf of the International Association of Wildland Fire by CSIRO Publishing. The journal is published online and in print eight times per year. The Journal publishes new and significant papers that advance basic and applied research concerning wildland fire. The Journal aims to publish quality papers on a [...]
(Current as of November 2010) Executive Committee Chuck Bushey, President Montana Prescribed Fire Services Billings, Montana USA Kris Johnson, Vice President Government of the Northwest Territories Forest Management Division Fort Smith, NT Canada Dan Bailey, Treasurer International Code Council Washington, DC USA Kevin Ryan, Secretary Fire Sciences Laboratory US Forest Service Missoula, Montana USA Board [...]
The Baby Boomers are retiring from state and federal fire fighting agencies and with the shifting economy many are too young to stop working. Therefore, retirement brings many choices including becoming an Administrative Determinate, AD. The number of AD’s needed on wildland forest fires are becoming more important each year. Does one who was in [...]
Missoula Fire Lab celebrates golden anniversary by looking toward potential advances in fire science and research. Excerpted from Wildfire Magazine. From the parking lot, the Missoula Fire Sciences Laboratory in Missoula, Montana, could pass for a school, except that one end has a 73-foot-high block of reinforced concrete topped by what looks like a giant [...]
Dr Mark A. Sofronov. 08/11/1930 – 11/04/2010. by Alexandra V. Volokitina and Tatiana M. Sofronova Dr Mark A. Sofronov was a leading scientific researcher at the Forest Fire Laboratory at the Sukachev Institute of Forest, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Mark Sofronov was born August 11, 1930 in Leningrad (current St. Petersburg). [...]
