Sentences with phrase «land fire management»

In the Native Title Report 2007 my predecessor profiled the Western Arnhem Land fire management (WALFA) project.

Not exact matches

If we start this season with those two in our starting 11 it will be a clear sign from this organization that nothing has changed and that we will never get it right until both Kroenke and Wenger are gone... neither one of these players should still be with our club at this point because they represent the settling half - measures that have plagued this team for a number of years... this is what I call the «no man's land» of the soccer world, where teams don't have enough talented young players, unlike a Monaco or Dortmund, because they have lost the plot from an organizational standpoint... they are so reliant on one individual to run the whole operation that their once relevant scouting department has become so antiquated that it can no longer find those hidden gems it once had... furthermore, when you leave all decision - making to a manager who despises any dissenting opinions, your management team becomes little more than a stagnant group of «yes men» and no new ideas emerge... so instead of developing a team with the qualities necessary to excel in a particular system, you continually make half - brain purchases year after year to stifle dissent from the ticket - buying public, then try desperately to finagle together a lineup regardless of what would make positional sense... have you ever heard of a team who plays players out of position so often... of course not because that manager would likely be fired and never work for a team of any consequence ever again

It was still smoldering yesterday, the Bureau of Land Management's Alaska Fire Service said, reporting that the wildfire has burned through 13,766 acres of military lLand Management's Alaska Fire Service said, reporting that the wildfire has burned through 13,766 acres of military landland.

From design to implementation, rewilding projects create jobs for a host of specialties — soil assessment, land system mapping, wildlife surveys and management, fire management — and for people in the construction and landscaping fields.

Slash - and - burn cattle ranching and farming requires the land be prepared for cultivation with fire in lieu of proper pasture and crop management that uses tractors to plow the soil.

«One important next step is to distinguish between natural landscape fires, fires started accidentally by humans and fires deliberately started as part of land management,» said Andrew Scott, a professor at the Royal Holloway University of London and a co-author of the study.

For a century, land management practices across the country have suppressed that regime, leading to a tinder - packed forest that is vulnerable to bigger and much hotter fires.

According to the Bureau of Land Management's National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC), the 10 years since 2002 saw an annual average of nearly 71,000 WUI fires recorded and 1.9 million hectares (4.7 million acres) burned.

«Understanding how prescribed fire and other land - management techniques impact these populations is critical to ensure their long - term survival.»

«A fire policy that would make more sense is to do a better job of land management planning and try to avoid the hazardous areas for building,» Stephens said.

He and other researchers are studying the behavior of both humans and fire, to make recommendations for better land - use management.

As a result of strenuous efforts to suppress wildfire and other land - management practices such as livestock grazing, logging, and land - type conversion, 8,9 many forests have experienced fire deficits, becoming overgrown and littered with flammable material such as leaf litter and saplings.

When the climate is drier, fires that are set for land management are more likely to leak into surrounding forests.»

The fire history of the landscape has been shaped by lightning, as well as by the land management practices of Native Americans, ranchers, loggers, the military, developers and, most recently, the National Park Service.

In 2004, the National Park Service proposed to revise Point Reyes National Seashore's Fire Management Plan to expand the use of prescribed fire and mechanical treatment for all lands under its managemFire Management Plan to expand the use of prescribed fire and mechanical treatment for all lands under its mManagement Plan to expand the use of prescribed fire and mechanical treatment for all lands under its managemfire and mechanical treatment for all lands under its managementmanagement.

The Competitive Enterprise Institute (the same group that last year ran ads saying, «Carbon dioxide... They call it pollution... We call it life) last week excoriated federal officials for generations of bad forest management on federal lands and for state and federal insurance policies that encourage building in fire - prone areas.

These types did NOT burn with frequent surface fires in the past, and so land management activities have had relatively little to do with fuel and fire regime changes in the modern era.

New policies will go a long way at reducing deaths of humans, animals, and plants from forest fires, and dramatically lower the costs of forest management while increasing the amount of forest land available for recreation and harvesting.

The paper examines characteristics of scientific research and public agencies, with particular focus on the U.S. Forest Service, to determine why disconnects are likely to occur between science based analysis of post-fire conditions and land management activities following fires.

Climate change has been a 20 year diversion from the more important problem of land, water, fire and biodiversity management in Australia.

Over the period of June 18 - 24, the Bureau of Land Management lightning network recorded more than 71,000 lightning strikes in Alaska, igniting a large swath of fires.

«It's all coming down to failed land management and that our societies have forgotten how to live with fire,» Held tells Pacific Standard via email.

The greatest fire management challenges lie in addressing simultaneously the threat to human well - being posed by fires, particularly at the wildland - urban interface; the uncertainties associated with various fire - related land - management practices, such as thinning and controlled burns; and the complicating factor of climate change.

Dr. Nepstad says that landowners in the Amazon — especially those with fire - sensitive investments like orchards, intensive - cattle operations, and managed timber harvesting — are curtailing the use of fire as a land - management tool, reducing the incidence of fires that escape into neighboring forest areas.

In an effort to avoid a repeat of past fire and haze crises, President Joko «Jokowi» Widodo issued several policies governing the management of peatlands, including a land - swap mechanism that allows companies to trade carbon - dense areas in their concessions for lands elsewhere as a means to reduce fire risk.

Joe Morrison, CEO of the North Australian Indigenous Land and Sea Management Alliance, explained that «in time, as the carbon market matures and world prices per tonne rise, these credits will more than pay for the costs of the fire abatement projects.»

TIP 2: The Bureau of Land Management (as well as the National Park Service, the US Fish and Wildlife Service, and the Department of Agriculture's Forest Service) has wild land firefighting positions available through its Fire and Aviation program (headquartered at the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise, IdaLand Management (as well as the National Park Service, the US Fish and Wildlife Service, and the Department of Agriculture's Forest Service) has wild land firefighting positions available through its Fire and Aviation program (headquartered at the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise, Idaland firefighting positions available through its Fire and Aviation program (headquartered at the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise, Idaho).

* Construction of ponds, fire lanes, timber management, fencing, and many other duties associated with land management.

Land management and maintenance of the biodiversity and ecosystems through programs including Working on Country and the development of Indigenous Management Agreements, as well as carbon abatement through fire management, and carbon sequestration may all be opportunities available to Indigenous land ownLand management and maintenance of the biodiversity and ecosystems through programs including Working on Country and the development of Indigenous Management Agreements, as well as carbon abatement through fire management, and carbon sequestration may all be opportunities available to Indigenous lamanagement and maintenance of the biodiversity and ecosystems through programs including Working on Country and the development of Indigenous Management Agreements, as well as carbon abatement through fire management, and carbon sequestration may all be opportunities available to Indigenous laManagement Agreements, as well as carbon abatement through fire management, and carbon sequestration may all be opportunities available to Indigenous lamanagement, and carbon sequestration may all be opportunities available to Indigenous land ownland owners.

Agreement making may also provide opportunities for Indigenous people to partner with industry and government and generate investment in offsets arising from land management, caring for country and wildfire management such as the Western Arnhem Land Fire Abatement Projland management, caring for country and wildfire management such as the Western Arnhem Land Fire Abatement ProjLand Fire Abatement Project.

The Department is also keen to explore possible options for minimising carbon loss through land management activities and has included fire and soil disturbance in workshop discussions.

Realising emissions reduction market opportunities through fire management and other land management activities in northern Australia will deliver not only economic benefits, but also social, biodiversity and climate change benefits.

WALFA produces a carbon abatement1 from improved fire management in West Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, that has been sold in a ground - breaking commercial agreement that is based on traditional Indigenous ecological knowledge.