Wildfire Prevention

Since 1944, Smokey Bear told Americans "Only you can prevent forest fires". Smokey is a sign: In 2017, 80% of outdoor entertainers (over 18 years old) correctly identified images of smoky bears and 8 out of 10 recognized active PSAs

In order to reduce artificial forest fires, the Advertising Committee, the US Forestry Authority and the National Forest Guard Association have a new digital first video inspired by a beloved Smokey Bear poster featuring a little known fire Announced artwork. start

A public service advertisement in 2017 created by FCB West, an advertising agency that produced works for the event since its launch in 1944, may cause daily actions to cause forest fires for outdoor enthusiasts and those in outdoor enthusiasts It reminds me that there is. These advertisements show how to properly erase hot coal and ash and burn the debris safely.

Smokey Bear became the star of the oldest public service advertising campaign in the history of America, but his message is as important as it was released 73 years ago. Even today, nine of the nine fireflies are caused by people. Common causes of forest fires include firefighters and unattended warm fires, burning garbage on windy days, inappropriately discarding coals for smoking and barbecues, or work machines without spark plugs

For that reason, PSA guides viewers to www.SmokeyBear.com, signs wildfire commitments, properly builds and fights firefighters, security tips such as how to access Smokey content from the past to the present You can learn. Smokey Bear continues to encourage young people to proactively prevent wildfires through his social media channel. For example, post your own #OnlyYou online to encourage viewers to participate.

For details on Smokey Bear and the longest PSA event ever, see The Classics.

Regular combustion is often mentioned as a tool to prevent forest fires. There is little data supporting this premise. The purpose of this study was to show that prescribed burning is an effective long-term forest fire protection tool. The research used a descriptive historical study method. Research subjects that need answers are as follows. The result shows that the number of forest fires, the area of ​​burning land, and the average area of ​​each fires are reduced by the continuously defined combustion plan. The prescribed incineration does not exclude the threat of forest fires, it can only improve its influence. The recommendations of this study include documenting and quantifying the benefits of specific combustion, informing the fire department and the public to use specific fire protection flames and promoting general use of specific combustion by landowners and land managers Further research to include is included. (USDA)

In the US, following the fire done in Idaho in 1910, the prevention of forest fires spread, 3 million acres were destroyed, and 87 people died. In Europe and North America, they "try to exclude forest fires from the landscape, which has an adverse effect on the ecosystem that often occurs in forest fires," Ingalsbee said. Studies published in April 2016 showed that the change in vegetation in Africa from grassland to woody shrub vegetation caused an increase in natural forest fire about 3 million years ago. These forest fires may have influenced the imagination of our ancestors. First we used a natural forest fires during hunting and fireed 1.8 million years ago - for the first time a human has left Africa for the first time.