Web Directory

» California Chaparral Field Institute
   Non-profit research and educational organization studying the chaparral biome, Mediterranean climates, and wildfire.
   http://www.californiachaparral.com/

» California-Nevada-Hawaii Forest Fire Council
   Information and networking on issues of wildland fire control and land management policies.
   http://www.cnhfire.org/

» 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.
   http://www.talltimbers.org/fireecology.html

» Fire Ecology
   Information from Wikipedia on the ecological effects of wildfires.
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_ecology

» Fire Ecology Research
   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.
   http://www.werc.usgs.gov/fire/

» 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.
   http://www.fs.fed.us/database/feis/

» Global Fire Initiative
   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.
   http://www.tncfire.org/

» International Journal of Wildland Fire
   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.
   http://www.publish.csiro.au/?nid=114

» Woods Ablaze
   This edition of The Why Files examines the role of fire in natural systems, and the role of science in understanding wildfires.
   http://whyfiles.org/018forest_fire/

» Yellowstone National Park: Fire Ecology
   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.
   http://www.nps.gov/yell/parkmgmt/fireecology.htm