2. Lecture Objectives: 1). Understand the history of fire management in the US from the 1900's to present 2).Know major policy's and key players of fire management in the US from the 1900's to present

3. 1944 U.S. government's Wartime Council

8. Euro-american Settlers and Burning 1. Fire in Agriculture and to clear forest woodlands

9. Euro-american Settlers and Burning 2. Fire to heat dwellings and cook food.

10. Euro-american Settlers and Burning 3. Fire for slash and burn agriculture

11. Note historic decline

12. Progressive Era (conservation movement)-- saw the welfare of forests at risk and started crusade to prevent forest fires

13. Gifford Pinchot First Forester, 1905-1910

14. John Muir

15. U.S. Forest Service started in 1905

17. Sunset Brg. Co., Wallace, Idaho, Aug 1910 after forest fires burned the town

21. NEW policy emerged--complete FIRE SUPPRESSION="fire exclusion policy"

22. 1) Weeks Act of 1911 2) Clarke-McNary Act of 1924 3) 10AM Policy of 1935

24. Longleaf pine (Pinus palustris)

26. late 1970's federal land agencies admitted they were losing battle to fire

28. Yellowstone 1988 Wildfire

30. -fire mitigation efforts now focusing in the urban-wildland interface zone