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Article: FIGHTING FIRE WITH FIRE.(Forest Service's wildfire management policy)(Brief Article)
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- Sports Afield
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- August 1, 1999
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How the Forest Service's wildfire management policy is blazing new ground. Literally.
This year's warm, dry la Nina spring might herald more than changing weather patterns. It could also be the proving ground for an overhaul of the nation's wildfire management policy
A 1994 wildfire that took the lives of 14 firefighters near Grand Junction, Colorado, prompted Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt and other government officials to propose the Federal Wildland Fire Management Policy. By 1996, the plan's call for prescribed burning--the deliberate setting of fires in order to prevent larger, uncontrollable bums--was put into action. Babbitt spoke at the ...