Regional North America Wildland Fire Network
A Region of the Global Wildland Fire Network
North America’s wildlands include a range of ecosystems between the boreal forests of Alaska and Canada and the subtropical vegetation in the Southeast of the U.S.A. and Mexico. Recent extreme fire years between 1998 and 2002 are a consequence of past forest and fire management practices, climate change and new vulnerabilities arising at the wildland-urban interfaces. Regional cooperation in mutual assistance in wildland fire management in North America has a long tradition and is manifested in established agreements between Canada, the U.S.A. and Mexico (Photos and maps courtesy B.J. Stocks, Canadian Forest Service; B. Sanders, U.S. Forest Service; GFMC archive).
- Introduction
- Pan-American Wildland Fire Conference (San José, Costa Rica, 21-24 October 2004)
- FAO Regional Fire Report North America Region (Regional fire report of the Global Forest Resources Assessment 2005, PDF 1.5 MB)
- Canadian Smoke Newsletters
- US-National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy (April 2014, PDF 3.8 MB)
- Effects of Drought on Forests and Rangelands in the United States (A comprehensive science synthesis by the U.S. Forest Service, 2016) (Executive Summary, PDF, 11 MB)
- Effects of Drought on Forests and Rangelands in the United States (A comprehensive science synthesis by the U.S. Forest Service, 2016) (Synthesis, PDF, 10 MB)
