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2. Federal Wildland Fire Policy & History of Wildland Fire Management Mike Frary Assistant State Fire Management Officer Fuels & Fire Use USDI - Bureau of Land Management Colorado State Office

3. 19002000195019251975 1910 1919 193419601988 1994 2025 1970 Fire Management Time Programmatic Development 1949 Fire Control Wildland Fire Management Development: Technology and Policy Milestones - 20th Century Wildland Fire Management Development: Technology and Policy Milestones - 20th Century Prescribed Fire & Fire Use

4. Federal Wildland Fire Policy 1976 - Prescribed Natural Fire 1988 - Yellowstone 1994 - South Canyon 1995 - Federal Fire Policy Review 1996 - PNF Escapes – R-6 1998 - WFU - Rx Implementation Guide

5. Federal Wildland Fire Policy 2000 - Cerro Grande 2000 – National Fire Plan 2001 - Federal Fire Policy Review 2005 - WFU Implementation Guide 2006 - Rx Implementation Guide 200? - Appropriate Management Response (AMR)

6. 1995 Federal Fire Policy Firefighter and public safety is the top priority. The Guiding Principles

7. Guiding Principles Firefighter and public safety is the first priority in every fire management activity. The role of wildland fire is an essential ecological process and natural change agent will be incorporated into the planning process.

8. Guiding Principles Fire management plans, programs, and activities support land and resource management plans and their implementation. Fire Management Plans guide the suppression management strategy. Sound risk management is the foundation for all fire management activities.

9. Guiding Principles Fire management programs are economically viable, based upon values to be protected, costs, and land and resource management objectives. Fire management plans and activities are based on the best available science. Fire management plans and activities incorporate public health and environmental quality considerations.

10. Guiding Principles Federal, State, Tribal, and local interagency coordination and cooperation are essential. Standardization of policies and procedures among Federal agencies is an ongoing effort.

11. Wildland Fires Wildland fires are unplanned events Wildland fires managed for protection objectives Wildland fires managed for resource objectives Prescribed fire

12. Federal Fire Policy Manual direction FSM 5100 DOI 2000 BLM 9200 Handbooks Implementation Guides “Red Book”

13. Then along came a couple of significant events! The Cerro Grande Prescribed Fire Escape and the Worst Fire Season since 1910. What A Season 2000 was!!!

14. REVIEW AND UPDATE OF THE 1995 FEDERAL WILDLAND FIRE MANAGEMENT Policy January 2001

15. FEDERAL AGENCIES DOI

16. FEDERAL AGENCIES

17. PRINCIPAL CONCLUSIONS The 1995 Federal Fire Policy is still generally sound and appropriate.

18. PRINCIPAL CONCLUSIONS As a result of fire exclusion, the condition of fire-adapted ecosystems continues to deteriorate; the fire hazard situation in these areas is worse than previously understood.

19. PRINCIPAL CONCLUSIONS The fire hazard situation in the Wildland Urban Interface is more complex and extensive than understood in 1995

20. PRINCIPAL CONCLUSIONS Changes and additions to the 1995 Federal Fire Policy are needed to address important issues of ecosystem sustainability, science, education, communication, and to provide for adequate program evaluation.

21. PRINCIPAL CONCLUSIONS Implementation of the 1995 Federal Fire Policy has been incomplete, particularly in the quality of planning and in interagency and interdisciplinary matters

22. PRINCIPAL CONCLUSIONS Emphasis on program management, implementation, oversight, leadership, and evaluation at senior levels of all Federal agencies is critical for successful implementation of the 2001 Federal Wildland Fire Management Policy.

23. This review led to several significant changes to the Fire World as we knew it!

24. NATIONAL FIRE PLAN WGA 10-Year Comprehensive Strategy IMPLEMENTATION PLAN

25. NUMEROUS UPDATES AND REVISIONS OF MANUALS, GUIDES, HANDBOOKS, ETC. ARE ON-GOING AS A RESULT OF THE 2001 REVIEW.

26. QUESTIONS?