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Here are some key sources for wildfire information useful to reporters.

  • National News & Conditions
  • Planning, Prevention, & Research
  • State & Regional
  • Other
  • Individual Experts
  • Pools of Experts
  • Other Resources and Past Coverage

National News & Conditions

  • National Fire News [2] (NIFC)
  • National Interagency Fire Center [3] (NIFC) Situation Report [4]
  • Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Center [5] (CIFFC) Situation Reports [6]
  • Fire Weather Forecasts [7] (NOAA Storm Prediction Center)
  • NOAA Drought Information Center [8]
  • U.S. Drought Monitor [9] (USDA/NOAA/U. Nebraska)
  • Wildfire Today [10]blog (Bill Gabbert) Links [11]
  • InciWeb [12] (All Risk, Interagency)
  • USFS Fire & Aviation Management [13] Newsroom [14]
  • BLM Newsrooms [15]
  • Burned Area Emergency Response Program [16]
  • U.S. Fire Administration [17] (FEMA/DHS)

Planning, Prevention, Research

  • Firewise Communities [18] (NFPA)
  • National Database of State & Local Wildfire Hazard Mitigation Programs [19]
  • National Wildland/Urban Interface Fire Program [20]
  • Wildfire Theme Page [21] (USGS)
  • Joint Fire Science Program [22]
  • National Fire Plan Portal [23] (Healthy Forests Initiative)
  • National Wildfire Coordinating Group [24]
  • Fire Monitoring and World Fires [25]

 State/Regional

  •  Calif. Dept. of Forestry & Fire Protection [26] (CalFire) Incident Report [27]
  • Pacific NW National Fire Plan [28]
  • Natl. Fire Plan - Northern & Intermountain Regions [29] (NV, UT, ID, ND, MT)
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 Other

  • National Assn. of State Foresters [30]
  • International Assn. of Wildland Fire [31]
  • Forest Fire Lookout Association [32]
  • Firefighters United for Safety, Ethics and Ecology (FUSEE) [33]

Individual Experts

  •  Rocky Barker, Expertise: Wildfire, esp. Yellowstone. Reporter, Idaho Statesman; Author, Scorched Earth. Phone: (208) 377-6484. E-mail: rbarker@idahostatesman.com [34]. Link: http://idahoptv.org/outdoors/shows/wildfire/barker.cfm [35]
  • Wally Covington. Expertise: Fire danger in and ecology of southwestern ponderosa pine forests. Affiliation: Director, Northern Arizona University Ecological Restoration Institute. Phone: (928) 523-7182. E-mail: Wallace.Covington@nau.edu [36]. Link: http://www.eri.nau.edu/joomla/content/view/50/90/ [37]
  • Frank Gilliland. Expertise: Health effects of wildfire smoke: . Affiliation: Professor of Preventive Medicine and Director of the Southern California Environmental Health Sciences Center at the University of Southern California. Phone: (323) 442-1309. E-mail: gillilan@usc.edu [38]. Link: http://articles.latimes.com/2006/dec/01/local/me-wildfires1 [39]
  • Timothy Ingalsbee. Expertise:  Fire ecology. Affiliation: Firefighters United for Safety, Ethics and Ecology. Phone: (541) 338-7671. E-mail: tim@fusee.org [40]. Link:  http://www.fusee.org [41]
  • Roger Hammer. Expertise: Incursion of development into high-fire-danger zones . Affiliation: Professor, Sociology Dept., Oregon State Univ. Phone: (541) 737-5406 . E-mail: rhammer@oregonstate.edu [42] . Link: http://oregonstate.edu/cla/sociology/faculty/hammerr [43]
  •  Max Moritz. Expertise: Expert in fire modeling. Affiliation: University of California/Berkeley Center for Fire Research and Outreach. Phone: (510) 642-7329. E-mail: mmoritz@nature.berkeley.edu [44]. Link: http://www.cnr.berkeley.edu/moritzlab/moritzcv.htm [45]
  • Bob Mutch. Expertise: Forest fuel management, fire ecology, fire behavior prediction, wildland fire training, public and firefighter safety, wildland fire suppression, prescribed fire in wilderness management, and international. assistance. Affiliation: USFS (Ret.); Firesafe Montana; Consultant. Phone: (406) 542-7402. E-mail: bobmutch@montana.com [46]. Link: http://firesafemt.org/index.php?option=com_contact&Itemid=3 [47]
  • Geoffrey Plumlee. Expertise: Toxic substances left behind by wildfires. Affiliation: USGS laboratory in Denver. Phone: (303) 236-1204. E-mail: gplumlee@usgs.gov [48] . Link: http://articles.latimes.com/2007/dec/05/local/me-ash5 [49]
  • Andrew Pyper. Expertise:  Wildfire. Affiliation: Author of novel The Wildfire Season (Harper Perennial, 2005). Phone: http://www.andrewpyper.com/html/contact.htm [50]. E-mail: http://www.andrewpyper.com/html/contact.htm [50]. Link: http://www.andrewpyper.com/ [51]
  • Scott Stephens. Expertise: Has spoken frequently about the virtues of the Australia "stay and defend" philosophy of wildfire preparation/management. Affiliation: University of California/Berkeley Center for Fire Research and Outreach. Phone: (510) 642-7304. E-mail: stephens@nature.berkeley.edu [52]. Link: http://www.cnr.berkeley.edu/stephens-lab/ [53]
  • Tom Swetnam. Expertise: Climate-fire connections and fire history. Affiliation: Laboratory of Tree Ring Research, University of Arizona, in Tucson. Phone: (520) 621-2112. E-mail: tswetnam@ltrr.arizona.edu [54]. Link: http://www.ltrr.arizona.edu/~tswetnam/ [55]
  • George Wuerthner. Expertise: Fire ecology. Affiliation: Editor of Wildfire: A Century of Failed Forest Policy. Phone: (802) 434-3948. E-mail: wuerthner@earthlink.net [56]. Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySqngrG_H6M&feature=channel [57]. Link: http://www.wuerthnerphotography.com/about.html [58]
     

Pools of Experts

  • Fire Sciences Lab, USFS Rocky Mountain Research Station
    http://www.cfc.umt.edu/cesu/NEWCESU/Expertise/Agency/RMRS/Missoula-Fire.htm [59]
  • University of California Wildfire Experts:
    http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/article/16622 [60]
    http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/article/6359 [61]
    http://news.ucanr.org/newsstorymain.cfm?story=524 [62]
    http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/facultyexperts/fireexperts.html [63]
    http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/search/news_detail.lasso?id=6756 [64]
  • University of Colorado-Boulder Wildfire Experts
    http://www.colorado.edu/news/releases/2002/220.html [65]
  • Colorado State Univ. Wildfire Experts
    http://www.news.colostate.edu/Release/3767 [66]
  • Colorado State Univ. Pine Beetle Experts
    http://www.news.colostate.edu/Release/3739 [67]
  • Wilderness Society Wildfire Experts
    http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache:HeuBh3EmwnIJ:onekit.enr-corp.com/100... [68]
  • National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Wildfire Experts
    http://www.ucar.edu/communications/newsreleases/2002/wildfiretip.html [69]
  • UN FAO Wildfire Experts
    http://www.fao.org/docrep/MEETING/004/Y2682E/Y2682E02.htm [70]

     

 Other Resources and Past Coverage

  • "Beetles Add New Dynamic to Forest Fire Control Efforts," New York Times, June 27, 2009, by Kirk Johnson. [71]
  • "Forest Projects Aimed at Wildfire Protection Misdirected, Study Says [72]," Los Angeles Times, June 8, 2009, by Julie Cart.
  • TipSheet Backgrounder of August 2, 2000. [73]

 

 

 

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