Reading resources & research

The Cairngorms National Park Authority's Partnership Plan for fire management, specifically relating to muirburn. Muirburn is used as a management tool in the Cairngorms to improve grazing, to increase grouse densities, to create firebreaks and to create seed bed conditions for tree regeneration. It is a potentially dangerous tool which should only be carried out by skilled, trained practitioners, operating in line with best practice and with the new licencing regime when this is in place. It should not be used on deep peat.

A moving song, performed by Fiddlin' Foresters, memorialising the firefighters who died in the Mann Gulch Incident. The video provides a good account of the events surrounding the incident and the creation of the song.

Few writers have been to so many desperate corners of the globe as has Sebastian Junger; fewer still have provided such starkly memorable evocations of characters and events. From the murderous mechanics of the diamond trade in Sierra Leone, to an inferno forest fire burning out of control in the steep canyons of Idaho, to the logic of guerrilla warfare in Afghanistan and the forensics of genocide in Kosovo, this riveting collection of Junger’s nonfiction will take you places you wouldn’t dream of going to on your own.

Young Men and Fire is a 1992 non-fiction book written by Norman Maclean. It is Maclean's story of his quest to understand the Mann Gulch fire of 1949 and how it led to the deaths of 13 wildland firefighters, 12 of them members of the USFS Smokejumpers. The fire occurred in Mann Gulch in Montana's Gates of the Mountains Wilderness on August 5. The book was a national bestseller and won the 1992 National Book Critics Circle Award for general non-fiction.

This report is a product of the Scottish Government Strategic Research Programme project JHI-D5-2 ‘Climate Change Impacts on Natural Capital’. The purpose of this report is to provide an assessment of current wildfire danger conditions for the main habitat types in Scotland. The aim of this report is to present the components of a fire danger assessment framework that can be used to inform the development of a spatial model of fire danger for the main habitat types in Scotland

The mission of the interdisciplinary Centre for Wildfire Research is to provide society with the knowledge necessary to predict, mitigate and adapt to the increasing threat of wildfires both in the UK and globally. It combines expertise of its members at Swansea University who cross many disciplines from geo-, bio-, social sciences and engineering, with that of its active network of over 100 external collaborators. These include scientists and end-user organisations from all inhabited continents.

Wildfire Danger Assessments are produced by Michael Bruce at Firebreak Services - free of charge. Michael has been delivering wildfire and prescribed burning training to land managers and fire service personnel since 1997 as a Lantra Awards registered instructor.