Fire History (Boise 2008)

No Longer on the Fringe: The Wildland Urban Interface as History

This workshop was held in Boise, Idaho on March 12, 2008

Sponsored by the Joint Fire Science Program, US Forest Service, and National Interagency Fire Center

This one-day workshop brought together historians, scientists, and journalists, who examined the so-called wildland/urban interface fire that has dominated the wildland fire community for nearly 20 years.  The first half of the workshop was devoted to presentations (speakers listed below), and the second half included a tour of the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise.

Articles based on this workshop will appear in the fall 2008 issue of Forest History Today. Check this website in June 2008 for a link to a videocast of the presentations.

Speakers and Authors:

• Patricia Limerick, Center of the American West, Univ. of Colorado-Boulder

•  Mark Tebeau, Department of History, Cleveland State University 

• Jack Cohen, U.S. Forest Service, Fire Sciences Laboratory, Missoula, Montana 

• William Sommers, EastFIRE Laboratory, George Mason University

• Mark Neuzil, Department of Communication and Journalism, University of St Thomas

• Rocky Barker, Idaho Statesman

• Stephen Pyne, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University

The workshop included a tour of the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise.