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2005 Guide to Wildfires and Forest Fires with Forest Service Park Service BLM National Interagency Fire Center Material Smokejumpers Hotshot Federal Wildfire Information - NIFC - DVD-ROM Author:U.S. Government This up-to-date and comprehensive electronic book on DVD-ROM presents an enormous library of documents and publications on wildfires, forest fires, and the Healthy Forests Initiative (HFI), launched in August, 2002 by President Bush with the intent to reduce the risks severe wildfires pose to people, communities, and the environment. There is... more » comprehensive federal wildfire information, with extensive material from the Department of Interior (DOI), U.S. Forest Service, National Park Service, Fish and Wildlife Service, Bureau of Land Management, the Fire Leadership and Fire Plan programs, and the National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC). There is great information on wildfires and forest fires, illustrated with thousands of dramatic color photographs of wildland fires, firefighting equipment, gear, and shelters, firefighters including smokejumpers and hotshot crews, firefighting aviation equipment (aircraft including tankers, other fixed-wing aircraft, and helicopters), and vehicles including a wide variety of fire trucks and other vehicles. Equipment and aircraft specifications are provided, including airtanker factsheets. Smokejumper unit histories, including Season Overviews, are a major feature; Hotshot Crews are profiled; current activities and crew histories are featured. Wildland firefighter aviation base listings are provided, as is an Airtanker Base Directory. Detailed histories of major Wildfires are featured, illustrated with color photography, maps, and other information. Wildland Firefighting Accident and Mishap Reports are included, as are Firefighting Aviation Accident Reports. Fires profiled included the Los Alamos superfire and Yellowstone. Wildland fire historical documentation includes Bureau of Land Management Historical Wildland Fire Statistics; the BLM Fire Picture Gallery; the BLM Historic Forest Firefighters Photo Gallery; National Fire Occurrence Database and GIS Coverage. The National Fire Plan and its implementation and the Wildland Fire Assessment System are featured. Material from NIOSH features reports on actual causes and circumstances of fire fighter deaths as part of their Fire Fighter Fatality Investigation and Prevention Program. By protecting forests, woodlands, shrublands, and grasslands from unnaturally intensive and destructive fires, HFI helps improve the condition of our public lands, increases firefighter safety, and conserves landscape attributes valued by society. While fire has always helped shape our landscape, today's fires are not those of the past; they are often hotter, more destructive, and more dangerous to fight. We know in part the reason for the difference. Compared with earlier times, many of today's forests often have unprecedented levels of flammable materials including among other materials: underbrush, needles, and leaves. HFI coverage includes Helping Your Community, Projects and Contracting, Events, Resources, and more. This incredible DVD-ROM is packed with over 76,000 pages reproduced using Adobe Acrobat PDF software - allowing direct viewing on Windows and Macintosh systems. The disc contains nearly 3 gigabytes of material! Our news and educational CD-ROM and DVD-ROM discs are privately compiled collections of official public domain U.S. government files and documents - they are not produced by the federal government. They are designed to provide a convenient user-friendly reference work, utilizing the benefits of the Adobe Acrobat format to uniformly present thousands of pages that can be rapidly reviewed, searched by finding specific words, or printed without untold hours of tedious research and downloading. Vast archives of important public domain government information that might otherwise remain inaccessible are available for instant review no matter where you are. This book-on-a-disc format makes a great reference work and educational tool. There is no other reference that is as fast, convenient, comprehensive, thoroughly researched, and portable -« less
