Wildfires

Wildfires [1]

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

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)

Other

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]

Topics on the Beat:

Forests [74]

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National (U.S.) [75]

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Reporting Tools [76]

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Public [77]