Latest News       Check out the latest issue of Fire Ecology, AFE’s online journal... Vol. 3, No. 2 - Special Issue on Wildland Fire Use   The '88 Fires: Yellowstone and Beyond, Sept. 22-27, 2008 hosted by The International Association of Wildland Fire (IAWF) and the National Park Service 9th Biennial Scientific Conference on the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, in association with AFE and a consortium of partners. Call for Papers, Posters, and Special Sessions is now open!   SAVE THE DATE! Pacific Coast Fire Conference: Changing Fire Regimes, Goals, and Ecosystems. December 1-4, 2008. San Diego, California.   Tall Timbers 24th Fire Ecology Conference Future of Prescribed Fire: Public Awareness, Health, and Safety. 11-15 January, 2009, Tallahassee, FL.   ANNOUNCING AFE's 4th International Fire Ecology and Management Congress: Fire as a Global Process. November 30 - December 4, 2009, Savannah, Georgia, USA. For more information, or to become involved on the steering or program committees, contact Dr. Sandra Rideout Hanzak at: sandra.rideout-hanzak[at]ttu.edu.   Joint Fire Science Program Duff Survey. The success of this project depends on the incorporation of managers' experiences of burning in stands with deep duff accummulations. Survey responses due April 11, 2008.     Dr. Michael Medler, Associate Professor in the Dept. of Environmental Studies, Western Washington University and AFE President-Elect, invited to give oral and written testimony before a hearing on "Wildfires and the Climate Crisis" for the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming.   Dr. Thomas Swetnam, Professor and Director, Laboratory of Tree Ring Research, University of Arizona and AFE Member, interviewed on CBS's 60 Minutes on "The Age of the Mega-Fires."   Dr. Chris Dicus, Associate Professor of Fire and Fuels Management at CalPoly San Luis Obispo, CA and AFE Board Member, interviewed on National Public Radio and invited to write op-ed for the North County Times about the fires in San Diego County, CA.   The University of Idaho offers numerous online and hybrid classes for the 401 series during the 2007-2008 academic year... read more.   AFE Board Member, Melanie Miller, gives invited paper on the San Diego Declaration on Climate Change and Fire Management at the 4th International Wildland Fire Conference in Sevilla, Spain...read more.   Congratulations to Robert W. Mutch on receiving the 2006 AFE Harold Biswell Lifetime Achievement Award and to the family of the late Dr. Edward R. Buckner on his receiving the 2006 AFE Herbert Stoddard, Sr. Lifetime Achievement Award. ...read more       Left-to-right: Bruce Kilgore, 2005 Biswell Award winner; Tyler Hawkins, SAFE Undergraduate Student Award winner; Bob Martin, 2003 Biswell Award winner; Bob Mutch, 2006 Biswell Award winner; Eric Pfaff, SAFE Student Poster prize winner; and Jay Lininger, SAFE Graduate Student Award winner. Not pictured: Ed Buckner, 2006 Stoddard Award winner.   Congratulations also to Jay Lininger, recipient of the SAFE 2006 Graduate Student Excellence Award, Tyler Hawkins, SAFE 2006 Undergraduate Student Excellence Award, and Eric Pfaff, SAFE Student Poster Prize winner at the 3rd International Fire Congress.   AFE members adopted The San Diego Declaration on Climate Change and Fire Management at the 3rd International Fire Ecology and Management Congress...read more    Order your copy of Fire in California's Ecosystems, edited by AFE's Neil Sugihara, Jan van Wagtendonk, Kevin Shaffer, JoAnn Fites-Kaufman, and Andi Thode with a forward by James Agee and contributions from many AFE members. Fire ecology students be sure to check out the Student Association for Fire Ecology (SAFE).

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