Future of Wildland Fire Management: Advance Briefing Report for the Quadrennial Fire Review Working Panels

摘要

The 2005 QFR Report focused on four sets of driving forces which would have altered the external environment of wildfire and consequently have the most impact on shaping fire management strategies in the future. The 2005 Report identified the following as the most significant driving forces for the future: Fuel accumulations stand as a significant causal factor for catastrophic fire. Directly linked to fuel is the predicted longer term thirty year drought cycle that climatological data indicates the nation entered in the mid 1990s. Demographic shifts from metropolitan areas to rural areas also complicate the problem by putting more people into fire prone areas in the Wildland Urban Interface or Intermix. Public focus is on protective measures, such as saving property and preserving the surrounding area, rather than defensive ones.