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National Fire Management Policy

Journal of Forestry, 1990
A Fire Management Policy Review Team was established in 1988, with representatives from the US Forest Service, National Park Service, Bureau of Land Management, Bureau of Indian Affairs and the US Fish and Wildlife Service, with the purpose of reviewing current policies governing national park and wilderness fire management.
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Attitudes Toward Prescribed Fire Policies

Journal of Forestry, 1990
This article discusses the fire policy of several land management agencies and research done to assess public attitudes toward these policies. Biological information may provide support for a prescribed fire policy in areas managed with a preservation mandate, that alone is not sufficient justification for its implementation. Fire policy has a critical
Michael J. Manfredo, Martin Fishbein, Glenn E. Haas, Alan E. Watson   +3 more
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Setting and Firing Policy Triggers

Journal of Public Policy, 1989
ABSTRACTGovernments increasingly use quantitative policy signals as automatic triggers for policy adjustments rather than simply to inform policy debate. This increased use of policy triggers cannot be explained simply by a technocratic desire to reduce workloads and regularize policy adjustments.
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Synthesis of Nets with Step Firing Policies

Fundamenta Informaticae, 2008
The unconstrained step semantics of Petri nets is impractical for simulating and modelling applications. In the past, this inadequacy has been alleviated by introducing various flavours of maximally concurrent semantics, as well as priority orders.
Darondeau P, Koutny M, Pietkiewicz-Koutny M, Yakovlev A   +3 more
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Public Support for Fire-Management Policies

Journal of Forestry, 1984
Abstract Members of the general public sampled in Tucson, Arizona, recognize that fire in forests can be both beneficial and detrimental. Public acceptance and understanding of the purposes and benefits of fire management are high, and additional fire knowledge increases tolerance for fire. While entirely new approaches to fire education
Hanna J. Cortner, Malcolm J. Zwolinski, Edwin H. Carpenter, Jonathan G. Taylor   +3 more
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Rating Fire Departments: The Policy Issues

Public Administration Review, 1983
Fire protection represents one of the largest categories of local government expenditures. A major factor considered in making expenditure allocation decisions in this area is the fire insurance rating assigned to local jurisdictions by the industry-controlled Insurance Services Organization (ISO).
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Wildland Fire Plans and Policy

This dataset contains plans and policy for the National Park Service's Wildland Fire Management.Fire management plans are required for all parks with burnable vegetation. The fire management plan is a document that lays out how fire management strategies and tactics will protect values-at-risk (such as structures, viewsheds, archeological sites, etc ...
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Ecology of fire-dependent ecosystems: Wildland fire science, policy and management

African Journal of Range and Forage Science, 2022
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