Fire and land management planning and implementation across multiple scales

2001 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 389 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wendel J. Hann ◽  
David L. Bunnell
Keyword(s):  
Land Management ◽  
Multiple Scales ◽  
Public Lands ◽  
Dynamics Model ◽  
Management Scenarios ◽  
Management Planning ◽  
Multi Scale ◽  
Ecological Principles ◽  
Management Policies ◽  
In Fire

This paper was presented at the conference ‘Integrating spatial technologies and ecological principles for a new age in fire management’, Boise, Idaho, USA, June 1999 Ecosystem conditions on Federal public lands have changed, particularly within the last 30 years. Wildfires in the west have increased to levels close to or above those estimated for historical conditions, despite increasing efforts and expertise in fire prevention and suppression capability. To reverse these trends, planning for fire and land management policies, budgets, and restoration must address multiple decision levels (national, regional, local, and project) and incorporate an improved understanding of conditions and their linkage across these scales. Three fundamental issues are identified and discussed that relate to traditional types of planning and the associated lack of achievement of multi-scale integrated resource and fire objectives. Various examples of planning that address these three fundamental issues at different scales are compared to traditional types of planning. Outcomes predicted for an example national scale landscape dynamics model are used to illustrate the differences between three different multi-scale management scenarios.

Talking about fire: Pikangikum First Nation elders guiding fire management

2010 ◽  
Vol 40 (12) ◽  
pp. 2290-2301 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew M. Miller ◽  
Iain J. Davidson-Hunt ◽  
Paddy Peters
Keyword(s):  
Fire Management ◽  
Forest Disturbance ◽  
First Nation ◽  
Research Strategies ◽  
Management Planning ◽  
Northwestern Ontario ◽  
Controlled Burning ◽  
Management Policies ◽  
Landscape Scales ◽  
In Fire

In this paper, we present how elders of Pikangikum First Nation in northwestern Ontario have drawn upon their knowledge and values associated with fire to engage in fire management planning for 1.3 million hectares of their traditional boreal forest territory. Over a period of 18 months, we engaged in collaborative research strategies that included interviews, visits to historic fire sites, and community meetings with Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources (OMNR) to document the elders’ understandings of fire behaviour, forest disturbance and renewal cycles, traditional controlled burning practices, and perspectives on current fire management policies. The elders demonstrated the relevance of their knowledge of fire to contemporary planning efforts affecting woodland caribou habitat and fire management at site and landscape scales within their territory. We identified three themes and six recommendations that elders confirmed as priorities for future fire management planning. The three themes include (i) the need for continuing dialogue for fire management planning with OMNR, (ii) extending traditional teachings of fire safety to community youth, and (iii) the desire to re-engage in fire management using traditional processes.

scholarly journals DCPNet: A Densely Connected Pyramid Network for Monocular Depth Estimation

Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (20) ◽  
pp. 6780
Author(s):  
Zhitong Lai ◽  
Rui Tian ◽  
Zhiguo Wu ◽  
Nannan Ding ◽  
Linjian Sun ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Multiple Scales ◽  
Feature Fusion ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Depth Estimation ◽  
Multi Scale ◽  
Pyramid Structure ◽  
Benchmark Datasets ◽  
The Common ◽  
Monocular Depth ◽  
Multiple Stages

Pyramid architecture is a useful strategy to fuse multi-scale features in deep monocular depth estimation approaches. However, most pyramid networks fuse features only within the adjacent stages in a pyramid structure. To take full advantage of the pyramid structure, inspired by the success of DenseNet, this paper presents DCPNet, a densely connected pyramid network that fuses multi-scale features from multiple stages of the pyramid structure. DCPNet not only performs feature fusion between the adjacent stages, but also non-adjacent stages. To fuse these features, we design a simple and effective dense connection module (DCM). In addition, we offer a new consideration of the common upscale operation in our approach. We believe DCPNet offers a more efficient way to fuse features from multiple scales in a pyramid-like network. We perform extensive experiments using both outdoor and indoor benchmark datasets (i.e., the KITTI and the NYU Depth V2 datasets) and DCPNet achieves the state-of-the-art results.

scholarly journals Information from geophysics for land management planning, Broomehill, Western Australia

2006 ◽  
Vol 2006 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Gregory J. Street ◽  
Abbott Simon ◽  
Ladyman Marty ◽  
Anderson-Mayes Ann-Marie
Keyword(s):  
Land Management ◽  
Western Australia ◽  
Management Planning ◽  
Land Management Planning

scholarly journals Outdoor Programs for Veterans: Public Land Policies and Practices to Support Therapeutic Opportunities

2020 ◽  
Vol 118 (5) ◽  
pp. 534-547
Author(s):  
Monika M Derrien ◽  
Lee K Cerveny ◽  
David G Havlick
Keyword(s):  
Land Management ◽  
Outdoor Recreation ◽  
Scientific Evidence ◽  
Public Lands ◽  
Public Land ◽  
Veterans Health ◽  
Health Providers ◽  
Outdoor Activity ◽  
Public Land Management ◽  
Outdoor Programs

Abstract Many veterans returning from military deployment experience stress- or trauma-related symptoms that make reintegration with civilian society difficult. Nature exposure and outdoor recreation can be important parts of alternative and complementary approaches to reduce symptoms and build on veterans’ pre-existing strengths. Multiple outdoor programs now exist for veterans; many of these occur on federal public lands and present a variety of needs, opportunities, and challenges. This paper relies on interviews (n = 36) with public land managers, program providers and participants, health professionals, and veterans to enhance understanding about outdoor programs for veterans (OPVs). We develop a typology of OPVs to help land managers understand current and potential programs, and then describe programs’ varying dimensions. We examine opportunities and challenges for land managers in their interactions with OPVs. Results inform policymakers and public officials interested in developing more effective institutional partnerships and programs that engage and serve veterans and their communities. Study Implications: With growing scientific evidence of the benefits of nature-based therapy, nature exposure, and outdoor recreation for veterans, programming for veterans on public lands has proliferated. Public land-management agencies vary in the extent to which they have systematically organized to provide opportunities for veterans, developed partnerships to support veterans’ health, and explicitly acknowledged agency roles in serving veterans. We describe seven types of outdoor programs for veterans (OPVs) that currently serve this population: supported outdoor activity; guided outdoor activity; retreat; outdoor job training; stewardship or service; horticulture, farming or gardening; and animal-assisted therapy. Each OPV type has different needs for infrastructure, outdoor spaces, and administrative or programmatic engagement. OPVs occurring on public lands typically involve one or more partner organizations, such as commercial outfitters and guides, health providers, veterans’ associations, foundations, corporations, and research institutions. There is potential for public land-management agencies to expand their role as institutional leaders in support of veterans’ health by facilitating the use of public lands as therapeutic landscapes. By enhancing new and existing relations with OPV providers, health providers, and other government agencies, public land agencies could expand benefits to veterans and spur broader societal benefits.

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