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Temporal and spatial structure in a daily wildfire-start data set from the western United States (1986-96)
The temporal and spatial structure of 332 404 daily fire-start records from the western United States for the period 1986 through 1996 is illustrated using several complimentary visualisation techniques. We supplement maps and time series plots with…
Author(s): Patrick J. Bartlein, Steven W. Hostetler, Sarah L. Shafer, J. O. Holman, Allen M. Solomon
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Organizing for higher reliability: Lessons learned From Wildland Firefighters
From the text ... 'In this article for Fire Management Today, we comment briefly on six themes that stand out in those discussions. Three themes, normalizing, complexity, and failure reaffirm properties originally associated with High Reliability…
Author(s): Karl E. Weick, Kathleen Sutcliffe
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Assessing High Reliability Practices in the Wildland Fire Community
Many key concepts under-girding organizational effectiveness are captured in the theory of high reli ability (Weick and Roberts 1993, Weick and Sutcliffe 2001, DeGrosky and other articles in this issue). Simplistically, a High Reliability Figure 1.…
Author(s): Anne E. Black, Kathleen Sutcliffe, Michelle Barton, Deirdre M. Dether
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External Human Factors in Incident Management Team Decision making and Their Effect on Large Fire Suppression Expenditures
Large wildland fires are complex, costly events influenced by a vast array of physical, climatic, and social factors. Changing climate, fuel buildup due to past suppression, and increasing populations in the wildland-urban interface have all been…
Author(s): Janie Canton-Thompson, Krista M. Gebert, Brooke Thompson, J. Greg Jones, David E. Calkin, Geoffrey H. Donovan
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Effects of an electrolyte additive on hydration and drinking behavior during wildfire suppression
OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to compare the effects of a water + electrolyte solution versus plain water on changes in drinking behaviors, hydration status, and body temperatures during wildfire suppression. METHODS: Eight participants…
Author(s): John S. Cuddy, J.A. Ham, S.G. Harger, D.R. Slivka, Brent Ruby
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The time paradox: the new psychology of time that will change your life
Now in paperback, this breakthrough book on the new psychological science of time by one of the most influential living psychologists—the New York Times bestselling author of The Lucifer Effect—and his research partner launched on the front page of…
Author(s): Philip Zimbardo, John Boyd
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Climate drivers of regionally synchronous fires in the inland northwest (1651-1900)
We inferred climate drivers of regionally synchronous surface fires from 1651 to 1900 at 15 sites with existing annually accurate fire-scar chronologies from forests dominated by ponderosa pine or Douglas-fir in the inland Northwest (interior Oregon…
Author(s): Emily K. Heyerdahl, Donald McKenzie, Lori D. Daniels, Amy E. Hessl, Jeremy S. Littell, Nathan J. Mantua
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Decision modeling for analyzing fire action outcomes
A methodology for incident decomposition and reconstruction is developed based on the concept of an "event-frame model." The event-frame model characterizes a fire incident in terms of (a) environmental events that pertain to the fire and the fire…
Author(s): Donald G. MacGregor, Armando Gonzalez-Caban
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Wildland fire use barriers and facilitators
The Forest Service authorizes broad scale wildland fire use (WFU) both inside and outside wilderness areas in many western forests; but, will agency authorization alone lead to implementation? Understanding barriers and facilitators to WFU…
Author(s): Anne E. Black, Martha A. Williamson, Dustin Doane
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