NAFC – Fire Management Working Group Bill de Groot Canadian Forest Service

WORKING GROUP LEADERS Canada WJ (Bill) de Groot Fire and Climate Change Research Team Leader Natural Resources Canada - Canadian Forest Service 2014 Chair Mexico Alfredo Nolasco Morales Gerencia de Protección contra Incendios Forestales. Comisión Nacional Forestal 2013 Chair USA Tom Harbour Director, Fire and Aviation Management U.S.D.A. Forest Service 2012 Chair

WORKING GROUP MEMBERS Canada Kim Connors-Director, Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre Walter Fanning-Director, Forest Protection, Nova Scotia Dept. Natural Resources Mexico Francisco Javier Medina Gonzalez-Strategic Projects Coordinator, National Commission of Natural Protected Areas (CONANP) German Flores-Chief, Forest Fire Research (INIFAP) Juan Manuel Frausto-Director, Forest Conservation, Mexican Nature Conservation Fund USA Jim Douglas-Director, Office of Wildland Fire, Dept. of the Interior Linda Heath, A/Director, Forest Management Sciences, USDA Forest Service

LIST OF ACTIVITIES OVER THE PAST 2 YEARS Annual FMWG Meetings: 46th FMWG meeting - Los Angeles CA, 27-29 November 2012 Tour of Station Fire, Angeles National Forest and San Dimas Technology and Development Center Australia-New Zealand FFMG Report Hurricane Sandy Report Texas 2011 Wildfires 50th Anniversary of FMWG

LIST OF ACTIVITIES OVER THE PAST 2 YEARS Annual FMWG Meetings: 47th FMWG meeting - Valle de Bravo, Estado de México, 4-8 November 2013 Tour of recent local fires and Monarch butterfly breeding area Australia-New Zealand FFMG Report Yarnell Hill Fire Incident Report

LIST OF ACTIVITIES OVER THE PAST 2 YEARS Fire Management Study Tours Purpose is to exchange information between countries on fire problems, and methods to find solutions. Usually results in recommendations and considerations for improvement from both visitors and hosts. Formal study tours started in 1968 when North America hosted a tour delegation from 23 countries Every 4 years, NAFC-FMWG hosts an Australia/New Zealand study tour delegation; Australia/New Zealand provides the same, so that the host location alternates every 2 years North America study tour of Australia and New Zealand was held from April 26 – May 20, 2014 with 11 members participating from all three countries

LIST OF ACTIVITIES OVER THE PAST 2 YEARS Fire Management Study Tours - Alberta

LIST OF ACTIVITIES OVER THE PAST 2 YEARS Fire Management Study Tours - South Africa

LIST OF ACTIVITIES OVER THE PAST 2 YEARS Fire Management Study Tours - North America

LIST OF ACTIVITIES OVER THE PAST 2 YEARS The International Wildland Fire Conference Series NAFC-FMWG is a major supporter of the IWFC’s, in cooperation with FAO and United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (UN-ISDR) Has become the major international conference on fire management, S&T applications, and wildland fire policy 5 previous conferences: Boston 1989, Vancouver 1996, Sydney 2003, Seville 2007 and Sun City (Pilanesberg) South Africa 2011 NAFC-FMWG is strongly represented on the International Liaison Committee, assisting to plan the next conference in Pyeongchang, South Korea October 12-16, 2015

LIST OF ACTIVITIES OVER THE PAST 2 YEARS 5th International Wildland Fire Conference : South Africa

PLANNED ACTIVITIES OVER THE NEXT 2 YEARS FFMG – FMWG Agreement Forest Fire Management Group of Australasia and the Fire Management Working Group of North America Inter Working Group Collaboration Goal is to promote advancement of wildland fire and resource management principles, practices and knowledge; we attend and participate in each other’s working groups

PLANNED ACTIVITIES OVER THE NEXT 2 YEARS 48th annual meeting of NAFC-FMWG (14-18 October 2014, Halifax NS) 6th International Wildland Fire Conference (12-16 October 2015, Pyeongchang Korea) Final ILC planning meeting to be held in conjunction with UN-ISDR meeting of International Wildland Fire Advisory Group, and Global Wildland Fire Network (27-30 June 2014 Freiburg, Germany) 49th NAFC-FMWG meeting – hosted by USA in autumn 2015 North America Study Tour (spring 2016) by Australia-New Zealand FFMG

WORKING GROUP BUDGET OR REQUEST FOR FUNDING The FMWG continues to look for opportunities to build closer ties with our colleagues in Central and South America to promote increased communication, collaboration and promotion of the UN/FAO Fire Management: Voluntary Guidelines, and new (draft) Voluntary Guidelines for Fire Aviation. The FMWG requests funding to pay for travel of one participant from Latin American and Caribbean Forestry Commission (LACFC) to attend the annual FMWG meeting to foster interaction and collaboration between the working groups for a five-year period.

NRCan-Canadian Forest Service Great Lakes Forestry Centre For more information: Bill de Groot NRCan-Canadian Forest Service Great Lakes Forestry Centre 1219 Queen Street East Sault Ste. Marie ON P6A 2E5 (705) 541-5538 Bill.degroot@nrcan.gc.ca