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J W Van Wagtendonk - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the evolution of national park Service Fire policy
General Technical Report, 1991Co-Authors: J W Van WagtendonkAbstract:National Park Service policies concerning Fire have changed over the years from no policy at all in the early years, through years of absolute Fire suppression, to a period of experimentation and refinement with • full spectrum of integrated Fire management strategies. During much of this time, the Service was influenced by other agencies and organizations but is now emerging as a leader in the Fire community. Fire policies in the National Parks have evolved from no management at all, through the full suppression of all Fires, to the sophisticated application of scientifically based Fire management strategies. When Yosemite was set aside as a State reserve in 1864 and Yellowstone as a national park in 1872, there were no efforts to control Fires. An era of full Fire suppression began when management of Yellowstone passed to the U.S. Army in 1886 and to the National Park Service in 1916. Experimental prescribed burning was that conducted in Everglades National Park in 1951. The Leopold Report (1963) influenced the Park Service to reevaluate its Fire policies. Revisions to the policies completed in 1968 permitted the use of Fire as a management tool.and led to the creation of the first wilderness Fire management program, in Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks. To data, more than 2,000 lightning Fires have been allowed to burn under carefully monitored conditions in 46 parks, and more than 1,000 prescribed burns have been set in 58 parks to meet management objectives. The Yellowstone Fires in 1988 led to an examination of Service Fire policy which affirmed current policy but recommended refinements in implementation. THE ERA OF Fire SUPPRESSION In 1864, President Lincoln set aside Yosemite Valley and the Mariposa Grove of sequoias as a State reserve. This was the first federal government action specifically designating an area for preservation and is considered by many to mark the beginning of the national park idea. Although the native Americans who occupied the Yosemite region had at least 4,000 years (Riley 1987) used Fire for many cultural purposes, it is doubtful that they practiced any Fire suppression. Early Euro-American settlers in the Yosemite region used Fire to clear land and to improve grazing for sheep and cattle. Their only Fire suppression efforts were directed toward protecting structures. The State reserve employed only one guardian, who had little time to fight Fires. Yellowstone and Yosemite were designated as national parks in 1872 and 1890.However, no agency was assigned responsibility for their administration and their new status did not result in the implementation of Fire management. Although there no Fire management policies or activities during these early years, the stage was set for the beginnings of Fire suppression. 'Research Scientist, National Park Service, Yosemite National Park,
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the evolution of national park Service Fire policy
General Technical Report, 1991Co-Authors: J W Van WagtendonkAbstract:National Park Service policies concerning Fire have changed over the years from no policy at all in the early years, through years of absolute Fire suppression, to a period of experimentation and refinement with • full spectrum of integrated Fire management strategies. During much of this time, the Service was influenced by other agencies and organizations but is now emerging as a leader in the Fire community. Fire policies in the National Parks have evolved from no management at all, through the full suppression of all Fires, to the sophisticated application of scientifically based Fire management strategies. When Yosemite was set aside as a State reserve in 1864 and Yellowstone as a national park in 1872, there were no efforts to control Fires. An era of full Fire suppression began when management of Yellowstone passed to the U.S. Army in 1886 and to the National Park Service in 1916. Experimental prescribed burning was that conducted in Everglades National Park in 1951. The Leopold Report (1963) influenced the Park Service to reevaluate its Fire policies. Revisions to the policies completed in 1968 permitted the use of Fire as a management tool.and led to the creation of the first wilderness Fire management program, in Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks. To data, more than 2,000 lightning Fires have been allowed to burn under carefully monitored conditions in 46 parks, and more than 1,000 prescribed burns have been set in 58 parks to meet management objectives. The Yellowstone Fires in 1988 led to an examination of Service Fire policy which affirmed current policy but recommended refinements in implementation. THE ERA OF Fire SUPPRESSION In 1864, President Lincoln set aside Yosemite Valley and the Mariposa Grove of sequoias as a State reserve. This was the first federal government action specifically designating an area for preservation and is considered by many to mark the beginning of the national park idea. Although the native Americans who occupied the Yosemite region had at least 4,000 years (Riley 1987) used Fire for many cultural purposes, it is doubtful that they practiced any Fire suppression. Early Euro-American settlers in the Yosemite region used Fire to clear land and to improve grazing for sheep and cattle. Their only Fire suppression efforts were directed toward protecting structures. The State reserve employed only one guardian, who had little time to fight Fires. Yellowstone and Yosemite were designated as national parks in 1872 and 1890.However, no agency was assigned responsibility for their administration and their new status did not result in the implementation of Fire management. Although there no Fire management policies or activities during these early years, the stage was set for the beginnings of Fire suppression. 'Research Scientist, National Park Service, Yosemite National Park,
José Antônio Franchini Ramires - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Emergency medical Services: Brazil.
Resuscitation, 2006Co-Authors: Sergio Timerman, Maria Margarita Gonzalez, Ana C. Zaroni, José Antônio Franchini RamiresAbstract:Emergency medical Services in Brazil have been created to offer first aid, primary medical treatment, basic life support, stabilization and rapid transfer to the closest appropriate hospital and advanced life support. Pre-hospital emergency care in Brazil is divided into permanent and mobile Services. Permanent care is provided by the pre-hospital network (basic health units, family health program, specialized clinics, diagnosis and therapy Services, non-hospital emergency care units). The mobile medical Services include: mobile emergency care Service, Fire department and private Services. Emergency hospital care units (emergency departments) are classified into general and reference units. Details of these Services are described.
Mingjian Zhou - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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how does a servant leader fuel the Service Fire a multilevel model of servant leadership individual self identity group competition climate and customer Service performance
Journal of Applied Psychology, 2015Co-Authors: Zhijun Chen, Mingjian ZhouAbstract:Building on a social identity framework, our cross-level process model explains how a manager’s servant leadership affects frontline employees’ Service performance, measured as Service quality, customer-focused citizenship behavior, and customer-oriented prosocial behavior. Among a sample of 238 hairstylists in 30 salons and 470 of their customers, we found that hair stylists’ self-identity embedded in the group, namely, self-efficacy and group identification, partially mediated the positive effect of salon managers’ servant leadership on stylists’ Service performance as rated by the customers, after taking into account the positive influence of transformational leadership. Moreover, group competition climate strengthened the positive relationship between self-efficacy and Service performance.
Sergio Timerman - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Emergency medical Services: Brazil.
Resuscitation, 2006Co-Authors: Sergio Timerman, Maria Margarita Gonzalez, Ana C. Zaroni, José Antônio Franchini RamiresAbstract:Emergency medical Services in Brazil have been created to offer first aid, primary medical treatment, basic life support, stabilization and rapid transfer to the closest appropriate hospital and advanced life support. Pre-hospital emergency care in Brazil is divided into permanent and mobile Services. Permanent care is provided by the pre-hospital network (basic health units, family health program, specialized clinics, diagnosis and therapy Services, non-hospital emergency care units). The mobile medical Services include: mobile emergency care Service, Fire department and private Services. Emergency hospital care units (emergency departments) are classified into general and reference units. Details of these Services are described.
Curt Stripling - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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WildFire initial response planning using probabilistically constrained stochastic integer programming
International Journal of Wildland Fire, 2014Co-Authors: Julian A. Gallego Arrubla, Lewis Ntaimo, Curt StriplingAbstract:This paper presents a new methodology for making strategic dozer deployment plans for wildFire initial response planning for a given Fire season. This approach combines a Fire behaviour simulation, a wildFire risk model and a probabilistically constrained stochastic integer programming model, and takes into account the level of risk the decision-maker is willing to take when making deployment and dispatching plans. The new methodology was applied to Texas District 12, a Texas A&M Forest Service Fire planning unit located in East Texas. This study demonstrates the effect of the decision-maker’s risk attitude level on deployment decisions in terms of the dozers positioned at each operations base, Fires contained and their associated wildFire risk, and total containment cost. The results show that the total number of Fires contained and their associated total expected cost increase when the tolerance towards risk decreases. Thus, more dozers are deployed to operations bases in areas with high wildFire risk and a high need for initial response.