Wildland

You're watching Inside Yellowstone. Fire is not only one of the most powerful processes in play on the Yellowstone Plateau, but it is one of the most important. Everywhere you look, you see...

Over the last decade we've seen standard placing wildfires that are uncharacteristic of their historic fire regime moving across the landscape and the y continue to get larger and larger as...

Today we will be traveling about one to three hours from Boise, Idaho north along Highway 55 to the very small community of Banks. Turning east at Banks, we will then follow Highway 17, also known as...

Leadership is not a title, it’s an action. Leadership is the art of influencing people in order to achieve a result. All Public Information Officers are leaders in one aspect or another....

A FORCE SO POWERFUL THAT AN INTERAGENCY FIRE CENTER DISPATCHES CREWS AND TECHNOLOGY FROM ALL OVER THE COUNTRY AT A MOMENT'S NOTICE. FROM THE HIGHLY TRAINED SMOKE JUMPERS TO AVIATION EXPERTS,...

So the goal was set back in 2006 to create a new system that would be scalable, progressive, be applicable to all wildland fires, and it was designated to be the wildland fire decision support system....

[Alarm sounding] [Music playing "When the Saints"] [Singing] Oh, when the saints go marching in I want to be in that number When the saints go marching in. Oh when the sun refuse to...

At the north end of Cascade, we will take Highway 22, northeast to Warm Lake. And turn south to the 474 road, very close to the South Fork Salmon River Campground; and follow the 474 road about 6...

Narrator: WILDFIRES ARE NATURAL EVENTS AS OLD AS THE LAND ITSELF. EVERY YEAR, WILDFIRES IN THE UNITED STATES BURN MILLIONS OF ACRES OF FORESTS AND GRASSLANDS. TODAY, THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE LIVE IN AREAS...

Where there is smoke there is fire. We chase it, we breathe it, and sometimes we choke on it. We all must deal with it. It is a constant in the firefighting environment, and knowing something about...