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Anonymous (not verified)
Thursday, October 3, 2002 - 12:00am
Origin of Resolution: NASF Forest Fire Protection Committee
Issue of Concern: National Fire Reporting
Background: Currently there is no consistent, uniform format or process for collecting wildland fire occurrence data among federal, state, and local jurisdictions. The Federal Wildland Fire Policy requires the federal fire agencies to develop a common format for their fire reports. To date, they have made little progress and continue to rely on separate, independent systems.
Local...
Anonymous (not verified)
Thursday, October 3, 2002 - 12:00am
Origin of Resolution: NASF Forest Fire Protection Committee
Issue of Concern: Federal Billing Timelines
Background: States continue to receive untimely and inaccurate fire billings from the USDA Forest Service. The problem appears to be in the process the Forest Service uses to collect and consolidate the cost information necessary to submit accurate bills to the states. Each state enters into an "Interagency Cooperative Fire Management Agreement" with the federal land management agencies,...
Anonymous (not verified)
Thursday, October 3, 2002 - 12:00am
Origin of Resolution: NASF Forest Fire Protection Committee
Issue of Concern: Firewise Communities/USA Recognition Program
Background: The term "firewise", which means being knowledgeable and prepared for wildfire in residential or urban settings, was first coined in 1992 following the disastrous firestorms in Oakland (CA) and Spokane (WA) when 27 lives and more than 3,000 structures were lost. In response, an interagency group began a national, wildland urban interface initiative.
In 1996...
Anonymous (not verified)
Thursday, October 3, 2002 - 12:00am
ORIGIN OF RESOLUTION:NASF Cooperative Forest Fire Prevention Committee (CFFP)
ISSUE OF CONCERN:Changing the Smokey Bear Tagline on Smokey Bear Signage
BACKGROUND:The cooperation between NASF and the USDA Forest Service is essential and in accordance with Law 16 U.S.C. 580p-1 in the management of the Smokey Bear wildfire prevention campaign that operates in partnership with the Ad Council. In 2001 the three managing partners agreed to modify the Smokey Bear tagline in order to reflect the...
Anonymous (not verified)
Thursday, October 5, 2000 - 12:00am
ORIGIN OF RESOLUTION:NASF Forest Fire CommitteeSouthern Group of State Foresters
ISSUE OF CONCERN:Hazard Support System (HSS)
BACKGROUND:The NASF Forest Fire Protection Committee and the Southern Group of State Foresters have endorsed and strongly recommended development and full implementation of the Hazard Support System (Satellite detection of wildfires) as initiated by the U.S. Department of Defense and the U.S. Geological Survey. Unfortunately, funding priorities within the U.S. Department...
Anonymous (not verified)
Thursday, October 5, 2000 - 12:00am
ORIGIN OF RESOLUTION:Massachusetts State Forester
ISSUE OF CONCERN:Endorsement of National Coalition for Sustaining America's Forests Report
BACKGROUND:Whereas: the 1998 National Research Council report on Nonfederal Forests (Forestlands in Perspective: Prospects and Opportunities for Sustainable Management of America's Nonfederal Forests) contains four (4) recommendations pertaining to research, education and extension outreach; and
Whereas: the National Association of Professional Forestry...
Anonymous (not verified)
Thursday, October 5, 2000 - 12:00am
ORIGIN OF RESOLUTIONCouncil of Western State Foresters (CWSF)
ISSUE OF CONCERNWildland Fire Preparedness and Response
BACKGROUNDDuring the ongoing 2000 fire season, nearly 80,000 wildfires have already consumed more than 6.8 million acres, destroyed several homes and structures and, most tragically, have taken at least 18 lives. Response to these devastating fires required local, state, federal and international firefighting resources. The USDA Forest Service, alone, has already expended $610...
Anonymous (not verified)
Thursday, October 5, 2000 - 12:00am
ORIGIN OF RESOLUTION:Council of Western State Foresters
ISSUE OF CONCERN:National Guard preparedness for Wildfire Suppression Deployment
BACKGROUND:The National Guard's mission includes an emerging role in "Homeland Security" that will enhance their state mission of aiding their respective state and communities in time of crisis. These crises include natural disasters and civil disturbances.
The 2000 wildfire season, one of the most destructive in the last 50 years, has resulted in a...
Anonymous (not verified)
Thursday, October 5, 2000 - 12:00am
ORIGIN OF RESOLUTION:NASF Forest Resource Management Committee
ISSUE OF CONCERN:Lack of a NIPF landowner cost-share assistance program
BACKGROUND:Support and funding for the two primary NIPF landowner cost-share assistance programs (the Stewardship Incentives Program, SIP, and Forestry Incentives Program, FIP) has dwindled over recent years to a point where the two programs are no longer functional across the nation. Taken as a whole, the authorities for SIP and FIP meet the needs of all States...
Anonymous (not verified)
Thursday, October 5, 2000 - 12:00am
ORIGIN OF RESOLUTION:NASF Forest Resource Management Committee
ISSUE OF CONCERN:Backyard Woods Initiative
BACKGROUND:Built upon the NACD Backyard Conservation Program, a Backyard Woods Program has been initiated by the USDA Forest Service to help bring "the rural forestry message to town." Targeted to landowners with less than ten acres of land, the program is intended to support healthy wooded habitat on private backyards through application of accepted forestry principles.
The program is to...
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