Fire Management & Environmental Change

Catalog description

Offered Spring. Introduction to wildland fire and its role as a transformative process in the environment. Topics include pyrogeography, fire behavior, fire ecology, fire policy, and fire management. Examines the role of fire in shaping ecological and social systems, with a focus on societal issues of natural resources, human health, land use, climate change, and economics. Provides foundational understanding of first principles. Serves as a stepping off point for further study of fire.