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Public Perceptions of Fire and Smoke

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Fire-Adapted Communities: The Next Step in Wildfire Preparedness in Klamath County

Year of Publication
2015
Publication Type

This is a manual that helps homeowners and neighborhoods prepare their areas and their homes for wildfire. A fire-adapted community is a community located in a fire-prone area that requires little assistance from firefighters during a wildfire. Residents of these communities accept responsibility for living in a high fire-hazard area.

Before Wildfire Strikes: A Handbook for Homeowners and Communities in Southwest Oregon

Year of Publication
2015
Publication Type

This is a manual that helps homeowners and neighborhoods prepare their areas and their homes for wildfire. A fire-adapted community is a community located in a fire-prone area that requires little assistance from firefighters during a wildfire. Residents of these communities accept responsibility for living in a high fire-hazard area.

Local Ecological Knowledge and Fire Management: What Does the Public Understand?

Year of Publication
2015
Publication Type

As fire management agencies seek to implement more flexible fire management strategies, local understanding and support for these strategies become increasingly important. One issue associated with implementing more flexible fire management strategies is educating local populations about fire management and identifying what local populations know or do not know related to fire management.

Trust: A Planning Guide for Wildfire Agencies & Practitioners

Year of Publication
2014
Publication Type

In increasing numbers, agency personnel, interest groups, and residents of at-risk communities are coming together to consider wildfire problems and taking steps to solve them. Particularly with regard to fire management, trust among parties is an essential element to successful local programs (Olsen & Shindler 2010, Lachapelle & McCool 2012).