Opportunities for Improved Fire Use and Management in California: Lessons from Western Australia

Fire Ecology

Rick J. Sneeuwjagt¹  Tim S. Kline²  Scott L. Stephens² 

[1] Department of Environment and Conservation, South Perth, Australia;Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, USA

关键词: California;    eucalypt forest;    fire management;    mixed conifer;    prescribed fire;    Western Australia;    wildfire;   

DOI  :  10.4996/fireecology.0902014

学科分类：生态、进化、行为和系统

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

As the large scale of fuel treatments needed to promote ecosystem health and reduce heavy fuel loads becomes clear in California’s mixed conifer forests, managers are beginning to focus on how to scale up prescribed fire use in order to treat a meaningful portion of the landscape. We look at the example of Western Australia’s large-scale and highly successful prescribed burning program by their Department of Environment and Conservation as a model for emulation by land management agencies in California. Focusing on: 1) novel management practices, 2) inter-agency collaboration, 3) regulatory collaboration and policy, 4) research integration, 5) cultural acceptance, and 6) political support of prescribed fire, we make recommendations for a new approach to the management and regulation of fire use in California’s mixed conifer forests.

【 授权许可】

CC BY