Abstract

This paper discusses several issues in forest and wildland management that have become a paradigm with references form the popular press regarding forest and wildland fire. Fire suppression history and its relation to wildfire, defensive space and prescribed burns have become concepts entrenched in the public mind. Whether scientific evidence supports these beliefs and what consequences result are reviewed. Evidence is presented concerning bias in firefighters choice of homes to defend that may skew data on home survival.

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