Introduction:
This web-link has been created in response to requests from teachers
for some Hayman Fire specific instructional opportunities, during
the month of October and National Fire Prevention Week. We
have provided this teaching-link from the Hayman Web-site as an
emergency solution because of the immediacy of the time-factor.
This is by no-means an end product, but a journey. This information
will grow, and sections found not as useful will be deleted, while
others will remain, and new can be added in response to need.
Please make suggestions and add your comments and requests at the
address provided at the end of the exercises. Contributors are welcome.
A Note to the Teacher:
On June 8, 2002 Smokey Bear’s worst nightmare occurred. We
all knew it would eventually happen, we just didn’t know how or
when. Educators from federal, state, local and private agencies,
have been talking about the importance of fire prevention, and the
importance of prescribed burns in fire regenerative or fire resistant
ecosystems for a long time now, as well as the urgency of fire-mitigation
within the wildland and urban interface. Perhaps you were one of
those educators. I know I was.
So then, was all our teaching for nothing? Or, rather instead,
does it take an event such as the Hayman fire in order to help people
listen. You as a teacher know that you can’t teach when no
one is listening. Today is the quintessential “teachable moment”
in fire-ecology on the Front-Range. Yes, we will have our
questions, debates and differences, for instance, about natural
fire regimens, or pre Euro-settlement conditions and other things.
And yes, some people still won’t listen. But the bottom-line
is we’re all in this together.
Links:
National Fire Prevention Association Home:
http://www.nfpa.org
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