3rd Fire Behavior and Fuels Conference Proceedings are Now Available

             

The proceedings are complete for IAWF's 3rd Fire Behavior and Fuels Conference, which was held in Spokane, Washington, Oct. 26-29, 2010. All conference attendees will receive a copy of the proceedings in the mail. CD-ROM copies are available for $25 each. Please send a request to execdir@iawfonline.org.

The conference theme was “Beyond Fire Behavior and Fuels: Learning from the Past to Help Guide Us in the Future” and commemorated the 100th anniversary of the 1910 fires in the Rocky Mountains of the United States and Canada. The 1910 fires were a precedent-setting event and have since had far-reaching implications on how the wildland fire community — and society as a whole — views and deals with wildland fires regionally, nationally and internationally. It seemed only fitting on the 100th anniversary of this historic event that we reflect on lessons learned from the past as we implement innovative and contemporary best practices for managing wildland fires in the future.

Over 450 participants from several countries were in attendance at the conference. Presentations covering nearly the full gambit of wildland fire management and science were delivered over the course of four days. A total of 203 written contributions are included in the conference proceedings.