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Feature World on Fire Steve Bunk rom Bob Clark’s snug offi ce in hectares), more than double the to two essentials. The fi rst is whether a Boise, Idaho, where he manages decade’s 10-year average. Australia’s blaze occurs in temperate or tropical Fthe United States government’s summer months around the turn of forest, and the second is whether the Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP), he 2002–2003 brought perhaps the worst nation is developed or developing. fi gures his computer provides fi ngertip drought in a century to the populous “The science can be rock solid, but reach to just about everybody who’s southeast and the biggest fi re season it can only go so far before social, anybody in wildfi re research. This for two decades. Mountain forests economic, and political pressures points to a primary need of nations were extensively burned and more take over,” Clark says. “That’s what a worldwide in combating the scourge than 500 houses were lost. In 2002, forest service manager’s job is, picking of recurrent wildfi res: tools and Brazil suffered 217,000 wildfi res, a the best option based on all those technology suited to the job. It’s no number that is almost certainly too considerations.” small order in places as economically, low because remote imaging cannot socially, and ecologically varied as, detect many fi res under the forest Copyright: © 2004 Steve Bunk. This is an open-access