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The Wildland Fire Series
is a comprehensive program for community leaders, homeowners, teachers, school children, foresters, and wildland firefighters. Participants learn the impact of fire on the forest ecology, how forest fires affect the wildland/urban interface, how to design, build, and maintain Firewise homes and communities, and how to protect homes, businesses, and natural resources from wildfire devastation.
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Educating the Future Generation
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Wildfire Prevention
Format: Educator workshop and interactive CD-ROM for the classroom
Purpose: To provide an interactive tool for educating our future leaders (upper elementary and middle school students) about their role in wildfire prevention. |
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Forest Fever
Format: Interactive CD-ROM for the classroom
Purpose: To teach grades 8-12 specific forest management tools and general guidelines for their use, and about challenging, exciting careers in forestry.
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| Reaching Community Leaders & Landowners |
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Living on the Edge
Format: Community leader workshop and interactive software
Purpose: To promote the message that preventing wildland fire damage is a community effort – the responsibility of all stakeholders in the wildland-urban area.
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Firewise Home
Format: Landowner workshop and interactive CD-ROM to share with neighbors
Purpose: To educate homeowners living in the wildland-urban interface about how they can reduce their risk of wildland fire damage. |
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| Training Foresters & Wildland Firefighters
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Living on the Edge College Lab Manual
Format: Manual and software
Purpose: To educate undergraduate forestry students about fire ecology and wildland fire management in the wildland/urban interface.
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Fire in the Field
Format: Software (courseware and simulator or online training)
Purpose: To complement on-the-job and instructor-led training of wildland firefighters. |
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