Wildland Intelligence

Strategic and Tactical Intelligence for the Productive Wildand

Delivering intelligence about the land for improving wildland decisions

Dedication...

• Understand it well
• Clarify objectives
• Count expected net benefits
• Make preliminary descriptions, then confirm and expand them in the field
• Manage it well for the future
• Adjust cautiously

Working Wildland Wonks: A systems approach Equifinality The n-dimensional hyperspace Relations vs interactions Things (or energy) in time and space Alpha Units Non-linear predominates The rationally robust Sequence dominates factor effects Time-since...dominates factors Objectives of nature Objectives of publics Using a priori knowledge Cumulative knowledge Non-map land surface areas Action during the growing season Transition tables Production functions Zones of influence Edge volumes The night world Lunar forces Minimum data; maximum information

Dirt The lithosphere including geology, rocks, minerals, topography, glaciation, and soils Water The hydrosphere including recipitation of all types and amounts, fog, fog-drip, runoff, groundwater, and soil moisture Air The atmosphere including air, smoke, air pollution, ozone, climate, weather, wind speeds Life The biosphere with all forms of life, human and otherwise, including all plants and animals and intermediate microorganisms

The wildland world has 4 big, fundamental, but related (and often overlapping) components.

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This Web site is maintained by R. H. Giles, Jr.
Last revision January 17, 2000.