The Pioneers

This panel contains information and images about the establishment of smokejumping by the United States Forest Service. This panel was used for an exhibit titled: Smokejumpers: Firefighters from the Sky.https://dc.ewu.edu/nsa_exhibit/1002/thumbnail.jp

Wildfires in History

This panel contains information and images on notable forest fires in the United States including the 1910 fire in the Northwest popularly known as the Big Burn. This panel was used for an exhibit titled: Smokejumpers: Firefighters from the Sky.https://dc.ewu.edu/nsa_exhibit/1006/thumbnail.jp

Searching For Work Of National Importance Civilian Public Service Smokejumpers In World War II

In 1940 the United States government enacted the country’s first peacetime draft. While Americans generally supported the government as it prepared for entry into World War II, a few organizations remained deeply committed to pacifism. Dedicated to peace for centuries as part of their dedication to Christianity and the nonresistant message of Jesus Christ, the Historic Peace Churches (HPCs) were threatened by conscription. Having struggled historically to maintain their nonresistant stance in the face of governmental opposition, these peace sects—primarily the Society of Friends, the Mennonite Church, and the Church of the Brethren—worked together for the first time on the eve of American involvement in World War H to secure an alternative to the armed services. The result of their efforts, Civilian Public Service (CPS) was the culmination of past HPC struggles with the United States government and various European governments

The War Years

This panel contains information and images about smokejumping in the United States during World War II, including information and images about the use of African American paratroopers (the 555th or Triple Nickles) to fight fires in the West. This panel was used for an exhibit titled: Smokejumpers: Firefighters from the Sky.https://dc.ewu.edu/nsa_exhibit/1003/thumbnail.jp

United States - Russia fire management expert exchange: Irtusk region

This report includes details of an exchange of information and techniques on aerial wildland fire fighting between the United States and Russia in 1993. The exchange took place in Irtusk, which is in south-central Russia and covered smokejumping and rappelling. The report also contains information about the U.S. delegation, Russian smokejumping songs translated into English, and a chronological narrative of the visit.https://dc.ewu.edu/smokejumping_pubs/1019/thumbnail.jp

SPATIAL PATTERNS AND PHYSICAL FACTORS OF SMOKEJUMPER UTILIZATION SINCE 2004

This research examines patterns of aerial smokejumper usage in the United States. I assess landscape and environmental factors of their deployment using a detailed nine-year record of smokejumper activity in combination with terrain, fuels, and transportation network data. Specifically, the research seeks to identify commonalities in location (proximity), terrain, fuels, fire occurrence, and accessibility of smokejumper actions that inform current usage and identify opportunities for improved utilization. Terrain parameters (steep, rugged, inaccessible) of the western U.S. were classified and a baseline travel time grid was created (30 meter resolution). Fires in which smokejumpers responded were compared with all fires that occurred (Fire Program Analysis Fire Occurrence Database) on the same landscape during the same time period. Most (96%) aerial smokejumper actions (2004-2012) in the western U.S. and Alaska were recovered from the Smokejumper Master Action Database and used in this analysis. Results reveal differences between incidents in which smokejumpers were used when compared with total fire load. In the context of total fire load smokejumpers are dispatched to fires in steeper (+117%), rougher (+100%), and higher terrain (+51%). Additional analysis reveals that smokejumpers are utilized further from roads (+375%), on landscapes that are harder to access on foot (+473%), and on incidents that are proximal to bases where jumpers are stationed (-33%). The identified patterns in smokejumper utilization provide a systematic assessment that helps explain where and how smokejumpers are currently being used. The research also quantified the occurrence of steep, rugged, and inaccessible terrain across the western U.S. and showed that more than half of the western U.S is within a 20 minute walk of the nearest road and 83 percent is within one hour. The most remote location based on Euclidean distance is in the Thorofare Basin of Yellowstone NP (21.5 miles). Based on hiking time, the most difficult to reach location is near Halfway Creek between Fish Lake and Moose Creek in the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness (29 hours). The travel-time results have utility beyond smokejumping in the areas of wildlife management, recreation, and search and rescue. This study provides the groundwork and takes an initial step toward the culminating goal of improving the efficacy of the U.S smokejumper program and the wildland fire community as a whole

Wildland Firefighter Health and Safety

Over the past fifty years the University of Montana, in conjunction with the United States Forest Service, has been investigating the job demands of wildland firefighters. This document is a combination of three research projects with a connection of health and safety of wildland firefighters. Smokejumpers are unique because they parachute into remote fires and are used primarily as initial attack wildland firefighters. Studies have shown that initial attack is the most energy intensive part of wildland firefighting. The first study identifies maximal and sustainable aerobic fitness possessed by US Smokejumpers. The maximal aerobic characteristic of US smokejumpers is well above average aerobic fitness compared to the general population, and sustainable aerobic fitness is similar to the fitness required for fire line digging during initial attack on wildland fires. There is also no difference between gender and age groups. The second study identifies the relationship between smokejumper core critical tasks (fireline digging, packing loads over 85 lbs, and repetitive lifting/carrying) and the current physical training (PT) test. The smokejumper PT test uses push-ups, pull-ups, sit-ups and a 1.5 mile run to determine if individuals have the minimal fitness required for successful job performance. This study found a relationship between push-ups, pull-ups and the 1.5 mile run to smokejumper core critical tasks, but there was no relationship with sit-ups. While physical fitness helps to mitigate certain risks associated with fire suppression, it alone is not enough, so personal protective equipment (PPE) is also used maximize safety. The majority of specifications used in construction of this equipment considers only the external environment and does not consider the individual as part of the environment. The third study evaluated the thermal stress on the human body with three typical configurations of personal protective equipment. The use of increased layers of PPE was found to increase the thermal stress identified by body temperature and physiological strain index. The use of two layers of PPE compared to one decreased potential work time by half before a critical core temperature was reached

The Leading Journal in the Field: Destabilizing Authority in the Social Sciences of Management

217 p. : il , 20 x 13 cm.Libro ElectrónicoI am often told, “Don’t waste your time reading books, you’d be better off reading the leading journals in your field.” Unfortunately, the authors of this book have closely read some of those articles: examining arguments, with simple principles and words, plus a touch of irony – and a shared belief in ideas and debates. The suspicions that we all have in a part of our head appears in its ugly nakedness: what is this social game that authors in leading management journals play? What grants them their truth effects? This is a book that one should read the day one enters the academic field; and then regularly thereafter so as not to forget.’ Professor Jean-Luc Moriceau, Telecom Business School (France)"A menudo me dijo:" No pierda su tiempo leyendo libros, que sería mejor que la lectura de las revistas líderes en su campo. "Desafortunadamente, los autores de este libro han leído muy de cerca algunos de esos artículos: el examen de los argumentos, con principios simples y palabras, además de un toque de ironía - y la creencia compartida de ideas y debates. Las sospechas de que todos tenemos en una parte de la cabeza aparece en su fea desnudez: ¿qué es este juego social que los autores de revistas líder en gestión de jugar? Lo que les dé efectos de verdad? Este es un libro que uno debe leer el día se entra en el campo académico, y luego periódicamente a partir de entonces, para no olvidar ". Profesor Jean-Luc Moriceau , Telecom Business School (Francia)Contributors vii 1 Introduction 1 2 Towards a Clinical Study of Finance: The DeAngelos and the Redwoods 9 3 Marientbal At Work 35 4 ‘Lessons for Managers and Consultants’: A Reading of Edgar H. Schein’s Process Consultation 61 5 Multiple Failures of Scholarship: Karl Weick and the Mann Gulch Disaster 85 6 The ‘Nature of Man’ and the Science of Organization 103 7 Performativity: From J.L. Austin to Judith Butler 119 8 Four Close Readings on Introducing the Literary in Organizational Research 143 9 From Bourgeois Sociology to Managerial Apologetics: A Tale of Existential Struggle 16

Static Line, December 1993

This issue includes President\u27s Message from Earl Cooley, a membership list, initial membership fees, articles on the first fire jumps, the beginnings of smokejumping and the connection with the development of US Airborne forces. Historical article on Lester Lycklama fatality. This is the quarterly newsletter of the National Smokejumper Association (NSA) and was renamed Smokejumper Magazine.https://dc.ewu.edu/smokejumper_mag/1001/thumbnail.jp