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For Fire Scientists

National Weather Service - Fire Weather

Site-specific, real-time fire weather updates using Google Maps API platform.

FIREMON: Fire Effects Monitoring and Inventory Protocol Webpage

"FIREMON: Fire Effects Monitoring and Inventory System is an agency independent plot level sampling system designed to characterize changes in ecosystem attributes over time."

Extension at the Wildland-Urban Interface: A Case Study of Community Fire Planning

“The recent nationwide emphasis on community fire planning provides an important new opportunity for Extension. This article presents a case study of Extension involvement in neighborhood fire planning. We describe how intensive neighborhood outreach, design, and delivery of educational programs and facilitation of a steering committee have improved neighborhood cohesion and interagency coordination in addressing wildfire issues in a 250,000-acre watershed.” 

Fire Effects Information System

FEIS contains literature reviews on more than 1,100 species and their relationships with fire. Reviews cover plants and animals throughout the United States. However, flora and fauna of Hawaii are not covered (except in the limited cases where these species occur on both the mainland and the islands). This site provides a wealth of information for NEPA, resource planning, and fire management.

Compare Wildfire and Acres Burned

Aggregated US Wildfire statistics limited to starts and acres burned figures.

Middle School Science Education Journal

The Natural Inquirer is a regularly published magazine for middle school students to learn about all natural ecology, including several fire ecology publications. 

Disaster Preparedness and the Cooperative Extension Service

"This article captures examples of Extension's involvement in the disaster realm and encourages additional work in the many aspects of community emergency preparedness.”

Forestry Mini College: A Cost-Effective Way to Educate Non-Industrial Private Forest Landowners

“This article describes the forestry mini college (FMC) format as an educational tool that can be used by Extension forestry personnel to cost-effectively deliver research-based forestry information to many private forest landowners. A description of an existing forestry mini college program in Montana provides insight as to the method's effectiveness."