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FIRE ECOLOGY LINKS

  • Bibliography of Fire Ecology in Australia - including fire science and fire management papers.
  • California Association for Fire Ecology (CAFE) - an organization of professionals dedicated to improving the knowledge and use of fire in land management.
  • Conducting a Prescribed Burn on Warm-season Grass CRP Sites - some special guidelines that will enhance the safety and ease of conducting a prescribed burn on Conservation Reserve Program sites.
  • E.V. Komarek Fire Ecology Database - Large bibliography covering applications of prescribed burning, control of wildfires, and other topics in fire ecology. International in scope with emphasis on North America.
  • Fire Ecology - offers basic information and history.
  • Fire Ecology Database - covers literature on control of wildfires as well as applications of prescribed burning. International in scope with emphasis on North America, and in particular, the southeastern United States.
  • Fire Ecology Eco-Link - looks at the use of fire to modify the environment through history, and its use in modern day resource management.
  • Fire Effects Information System (FEIS) - Up-to-date information about fire effects on plants and animals of North America, developed at the USDA Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station's Fire Sciences Laboratory in Missoula, Montana.
  • fire.org - software, documentation, and technical papers for fire management.
  • Frostfire - information on a landscape-scale fire experiment in the boreal forest of interior Alaska.
  • How to Conduct a Prescribed Burn - from the Nobel Foundation's Ag News and Views.
  • Kimberley Regional Fire Management Project - looks at fire and traditional aboriginal knowledge, satellite fire scar mapping, and the affects of fire on biodiversity.
  • Literature Review of Fire Ecology and Effects - Natural Heritage Baseline Survey and Fire Ecology/Effects Literature Review for United States Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, Colorado.
  • National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC) - primary U.S. logistical support center for wildland fire suppression. Home to fire experts in fields as diverse as fire ecology, fire behavior, technology, aviation, and weather.
  • Nature Conservancy: National Fire Management Program - oversees management on preserves, fosters fire ecology research, and promotes the judicious use of prescribed fire to meet biodiversity conservation needs through publications, information exchange, and fire policy reviews.
  • NCC Bushfire Campaign - program of the Nature Conservation Council of New South Wales promoting public education and awareness strategies for better bush fire risk management.
  • Prescott National Forest: Prescribed Burn - information on efforts to replicate the natural process with prescribed burning and mechanical treatment.
  • Prescribe Burning: Should We Do It? - information on practices in Stanislaus National Forest, California.
  • Prescribed Burning Guidelines in the Northern Great Plains - report from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
  • Sierra District Prescribed Burn Program - re-establishing fire as a natural ecological process in the California State Park System.
  • The Impact of Fire on Ecosystems - A short primer on the subject, from University of Texas at Austin.
  • Wildfire History and Ecology on the Colorado Plateau - discusses fire's effect of different forest and grassland communities and provides links to studies conducted in the Southwest region.
  • Woods Ablaze - This edition of The Why Files examines the role of fire in natural systems, and the role of science in understanding wildfires.

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