California Chaparral Field Institute - http://www.californiachaparral.com/
Non-profit research and educational organization studying the chaparral biome, Mediterranean climates, and wildfire. |
California-Nevada-Hawaii Forest Fire Council - http://www.cnhfire.org/
Information and networking on issues of wildland fire control and land management policies. |
E.V. Komarek Fire Ecology Database - http://www.talltimbers.org/fireecology.html
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 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_ecology
Information from Wikipedia on the ecological effects of wildfires. |
Fire Ecology Research - http://www.werc.usgs.gov/fire/
Description of research being done by Western Ecological Research Center scientists in the Sierra Nevada forests, the California shrublands and the Mojave and Sonoran deserts. |
Fire Effects Information System (FEIS) - http://www.fs.fed.us/database/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. |
Global Fire Initiative - http://www.tncfire.org/
The Nature Conservancy's Global Fire Initiative works to help combat the threats that too much, too little or the wrong kind of fire can pose to communities and biodiversity. |
International Journal of Wildland Fire - http://www.publish.csiro.au/?nid=114
Publishes papers on the principles of fire as a process, its ecological impact, modelling fire and its effects, or presenting information on how to effectively and efficiently manage fire. |
Woods Ablaze - http://whyfiles.org/018forest_fire/
This edition of The Why Files examines the role of fire in natural systems, and the role of science in understanding wildfires. |
Yellowstone National Park: Fire Ecology - http://www.nps.gov/yell/parkmgmt/fireecology.htm
Article providing a history of wildland fires in the Park, the factors necessary for fires to take hold and the effects of fires on different tree species. |