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

2. 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

3. 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

4. LIST OF ACTIVITIES OVER THE PAST 2 YEARS
Annual FMWG Meetings:
46th FMWG meeting - Los Angeles CA, 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

5. 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

6. 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

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

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

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

10. 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 , 2015

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

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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.

15. 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)