WFRG RECOMMENDED LINKS TO FIRE RESOURCES
Below are links we have found to be interesting and helpful.
National Sit Report
http://www.nifc.gov/news/nicc.html
Download the current National Fire Situation Report from the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise. Updated daily during fire season.
Fire Effects Information System
Database on fire effects searchable by plant and animal species.
National Wildfire Coordinating Group
Includes "bibliography" of wildland fire websites, searchable by subject. Also has a list of downloadable files.
National Interagency Fire Center
Includes reports, management plans, yearly fire statistics, current fire activity and photos.
Tall Timbers Research Station
Includes extensive database of fire-related literature (papers, books, conferences, etc.)
Association of Fire Ecology
Includes monthly bulletins with events, news, occasional job postings, downloadable version of their newsletter.
Joint Fire Science Program
www.nifc.gov/joint_fire_sci/jointfiresci.html
Lists currently funded projects, gives info on applying for grant money, etc.
Forest Service Fire and Aviation Page of Links
http://www.fs.fed.us/fire/links2.shtml#aerially
This page has links to tons of resources. If you want to know something about a fire issue, this is a good place to look.
Firewise
This interactive web site gives information on reducing the risk of loss to fire in the wildland urban interface. It is sponsored by the Forest Service, National Park Service, Bureau of Indian Affairs and other government agencies.
International Association of Wildland Fire
The International Association of Wildland Fire is well known and has many resources. They publish The International Journal of Wildland Fire and Wildfire Magazine as well as other publications. They have a large library of wildland fire materials and an online bookstore. They have a large database of people involved in wildland fire. This organization is very international in scope.
The International Fire Information Network
http://www.anu.edu.au/Forestry/fire/firenet.html
FireNet as an on-line information service for everyone interested in rural and landscape fires. The service is available via the Internet and based out of Australia. The information concerns all aspects of fire science and management - including fire behaviour, fire weather, fire prevention, mitigation and suppression, fire ecology and fire effects. The maintain a list serve that has many people signed up from all over the world, including many fire researchers. If you want to get help with a research question, you will usually get quite a response on the list serve.
CSIRO Bushfire Behaviour and Management
http://www.ffp.csiro.au/nfm/fbm/
This is one of biggest fire behavior and modeling projects in the world. The Bushfire Behaviour and Management Group has been responsible for the development of the Australian Fire Danger Rating Systems for both grasslands and forests. Much of their present work is aimed at improving these systems and providing rural fire fighters with the best tools with which to predict fire danger and fire behaviour.
Canadian Wildfire! Network
http://www.denendeh.com/flycolor/wildfire/
They have a collection of 50 pages and over 700 links to forest fire information gathered from the World Wide Web. What they say:"This web site was designed by, for and about those people directly or indirectly involved in forest fire fighting in Canada. It is aimed at bringing together these resources in the hope of building on our strong national firefighting reputation in the spirit of cooperation and communication."
Fire Management Tools Online
http://fire.org/perl/tools.cgi
Provide users with a vehicle to gain information about fire management related applications and access to documentation, visuals/graphics and executable software. Provide authors with a www vehicle for technology transfer of fire management related applications.
UC Forest Products Laboratory Fire Research
This is a site describing some major research in urban/wildland fire hazard mitigation being conducted at the Forest Products Lab. The Lab is associated with UC Berkeley and is in Richmond, CA.
Last Updated 9/14/01