Forestry Policies On BLM's O&C Lands Needs To Change

Wildfire NOTD subscriber Bruce Courtright, Chairman of the National Institute for the Elimination of Catastrophic Wildfire, sent along an Op-Ed piece which takes a dim view of current forestry policies on the BLM's Oregon and California (O&C) Railroad grant lands

FROM OREGON: BLM management plans fail people and forests

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Can Wyoming Pay For Wildfire Suppression?

A $75,000 study aims to answer questions about whether the state can pay for fire suppression on Wyoming's public lands currently managed by the federal government

Barron: Who pays for the wildfires?

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Conair AT-802 Pilot Killed Fighting Alberta Wildfire

A Conair AT-802 SEAT crashed 100 km east of Lac La Biche, Alberta, while fighting a wildfire, killing the pilot

Forest fire fighting pilot dies in plane crash

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Coulson Industries Discussing Fate Of Martin Mars Air-Tankers

The Canadian government is involved in some horse-trading with Coulson Industries over the fate of their venerable Martin Mars air-tankers

Martin Mars Deal Stymied?

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Forestry Consultant Unveils Nebraska CWPP

A forestry consultant has been hired by the Nebraska Forest Service to implement the Missouri River Northeast Protection Plan, a Community Wildfire Protection Plan for Northeast Nebraska

Plan aims to protect Northeast Nebraska from wildfires

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Headwaters Economics May Newsletter

Wildfire NOTD subscriber Chris Mehl, Director of Public Policy at Headwaters Economics, sent along their May newsletter

Newsletter: May 2015

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Bushfire & Natural Hazards CRC May 2015 Newsletter

Wildfire NOTD subscriber Nathan Maddock, Communications Officer at Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC, sent along their May newsletter

Bushfire & Natural Hazards CRC May 2015 Newsletter

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Director of Colorado Aerial Firefighting Center Hiring Wildfire Experts

The director of Colorado's Center of Excellence for Advanced Technology Aerial Firefighting in Rifle discussed their plans to hire a staff of wildfire experts in a radio interview

Q & A: Director of New Aerial Firefighting Research Facility

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UAVs Being Tested For Wildfire Surveillance In Texas

Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi is testing unmanned aircraft at the Lone Star Unmanned Aircraft Systems Center of Excellence and Innovation to experiment with the monitoring of wildfires

Lone Star UAS Center Partnerships Cover Skies, Borders and Forest Fires

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USFS Prescott Fire Center Grant Allows More Air-Tanker Servicing

U.S. Forest Service's Fire Center in Prescott received approval from the Prescott City Council that will allow for a $1.6 million improvement to the airport apron used by air-tankers

Upgrade of airport's apron for slurry bombers set to get under way

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Northwest Management Drafts CWPP For Washington Community

Northwest Management, Inc., which has been contracted to conduct a risk assessment and draft an updated Community Wildfire Protection Plan for Grant County, Washington, gathered public comments Tuesday

Committee presents Wildfire Protection Plan draft

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USFS Publishes Results Of Quadrennial Fire Review

Wildfire NOTD subscriber Katie Lighthall, Western Regional Coordinator for the National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy, sent along a press release from USFS Fire & Aviation Director Tom Harbour discussing a new Quadrennial Fire Review

Tom Harbour Press Release

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Royal Aviation Museum of Western Canada Offers CL-415 Exhibit

Winnipeg, Manitoba's, Royal Aviation Museum of Western Canada has opened their CL-415 Super Scooper exhibit to the public

Super-scoopers’ history takes flight

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Wildfire Vortices Subject Of IAWF Webinar

Wildfire NOTD subscriber Mikel Robinson, Executive Director at the International Association of Wildland Fire, sent along an invitation to a webinar on 5/20 that will present a summary of vortices and wildland fire

Vortices and Wildland Fire

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Colorado's Governor Signs Wildfire Bills

Colorado Governor Hickenlooper signed the Veterans Fire Corps for Wildfire Fighting bill and the Wildfire Risk Reduction Grant Program in Durango

Hickenlooper to sign wildfire bills

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AHSAFA Leadership Changing

Wildfire NOTD subscriber Tom Eversole, Executive Director of the American Helicopter Services and Aerial Firefighting Association, issued a press release announcing the appointment of Wildfire NOTD subscriber George Hill as Executive Director of AHSAFA

AHSAFA Press Release: George Hill Announcement

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Headwaters Economics Offers Ideas On Reducing Wildfire Danger To Homes

Wildfire NOTD subscriber Chris Mehl, Director of Public Policy at Headwaters Economics, sent along an article published in the March-April 2015 edition of The Solutions Journal which offers 9 ideas on how to alter the pace, scale, and pattern of future home development to reduce the wildfire danger to neighborhoods (a more detailed white paper is available here)

Resolving the Increasing Risk from Wildfires in the American West

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Spark Bushfire Prediction Program Unveiled At Australia Conference

The new Spark bushfire prediction program was unveiled at the Australia New Zealand Disaster Management Conference on Queensland, Australia's, Gold Coast

Bright Spark saves lives: finding order in the chaos of bushfires

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GelTech Solutions Helps Snuff 20 Pennsylvania Wildfires

Wildfire NOTD subscriber Matt Struzziero, Director of Sales and Strategic Operations at GelTech Solutions, announced that FireIce has been successfully deployed on more than 20 wildfires this season by air-tankers throughout the state

Pennsylvania Uses FireIce to Fight Wildfires

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Military Vets Find New Career Fighting New Mexico Wildfires

Over two dozen military vets have retrained as firefighters in New Mexico's Returning Heroes program

New Mexico veterans hired to prevent, fight wildfires

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Causes Of California's Year-Round Fire Season

Wildfire NOTD subscriber Bruce Courtright, Chairman of the National Institute for the Elimination of Catastrophic Wildfire, sent along an Op-Ed piece which faults mismanagement of forestlands and the current fire prevention funding formula for the year-round wildfire season in the Golden State

OP-ED: California’s wildfire season now runs year-round

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Wildfire Forecast For Pacific Northwest

A Jefferson Public Radio segment looks at the wildfire danger in the Pacific Northwest this year

Dry, Dead Wood Could Help Ignite Wildfires In Oregon And California

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Air Spray Attending Chico Air Museum Open House Saturday

Air Spray will be among companies displaying their aerial firefighting wares at the Chico Air Museum’s first major open house in its new quarters at the Chico Municipal Airport on Saturday

Chico Air Museum sets open house for Saturday

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California Fire Science Consortium May Newsletter

Wildfire NOTD subscriber Stacey Frederick, Program Coordinator at California Fire Science Consortium, sent along their May newsletter

May Newsletter

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Interior Allocates Over $4 Million To Wildfire Projects

Interior Secretary Sally Jewell has allocated more than $4 million to projects in four states as part of a wildfire-fighting strategy to protect a wide swath of Oregon, Idaho, Utah and Nevada

$4M in wildfire-fighting projects aims to protect sage grouse habitat

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PCADS Is Ideal Solution To Chernobyl Wildfire

Wildfire NOTD subscriber Ty Bonnar, President of Flexible Attack Innovations, sent along an article about forest fires that have burned at least 400 ha of radioactive timber 20 km from Ukraine's Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, with the comment "PCADS is the safest option for a wildfire crisis like this"

Forest fires heading for Chernobyl nuclear plant – Ukraine Interior Ministry

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