Wildfires

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 (NIFC)
National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC) Situation Report
Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Center (CIFFC) Situation Reports
Fire Weather Forecasts (NOAA Storm Prediction Center)
NOAA Drought Information Center
U.S. Drought Monitor (USDA/NOAA/U. Nebraska)
Wildfire Today blog (Bill Gabbert) Links
InciWeb (All Risk, Interagency)
USFS Fire & Aviation Management Newsroom
BLM Newsrooms
Burned Area Emergency Response Program
U.S. Fire Administration (FEMA/DHS)

Planning, Prevention, Research

Firewise Communities (NFPA)
National Database of State & Local Wildfire Hazard Mitigation Programs
National Wildland/Urban Interface Fire Program
Wildfire Theme Page (USGS)
Joint Fire Science Program
National Fire Plan Portal (Healthy Forests Initiative)
National Wildfire Coordinating Group
Fire Monitoring and World Fires

State/Regional

Calif. Dept. of Forestry & Fire Protection (CalFire) Incident Report
Pacific NW National Fire Plan
Natl. Fire Plan - Northern & Intermountain Regions (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. Link: http://idahoptv.org/outdoors/shows/wildfire/barker.cfm
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. Link: http://www.eri.nau.edu/joomla/content/view/50/90/
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. Link: http://articles.latimes.com/2006/dec/01/local/me-wildfires1
Timothy Ingalsbee. Expertise: Fire ecology. Affiliation: Firefighters United for Safety, Ethics and Ecology. Phone: (541) 338-7671. E-mail: tim@fusee.org. Link: http://www.fusee.org
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 . Link: http://oregonstate.edu/cla/sociology/faculty/hammerr
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. Link: http://www.cnr.berkeley.edu/moritzlab/moritzcv.htm
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. Link: http://firesafemt.org/index.php?option=com_contact&Itemid=3
Geoffrey Plumlee. Expertise: Toxic substances left behind by wildfires. Affiliation: USGS laboratory in Denver. Phone: (303) 236-1204. E-mail: gplumlee@usgs.gov . Link: http://articles.latimes.com/2007/dec/05/local/me-ash5
Andrew Pyper. Expertise: Wildfire. Affiliation: Author of novel The Wildfire Season (Harper Perennial, 2005). Phone: http://www.andrewpyper.com/html/contact.htm. E-mail: http://www.andrewpyper.com/html/contact.htm. Link: http://www.andrewpyper.com/
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. Link: http://www.cnr.berkeley.edu/stephens-lab/
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. Link: http://www.ltrr.arizona.edu/~tswetnam/
George Wuerthner. Expertise: Fire ecology. Affiliation: Editor of Wildfire: A Century of Failed Forest Policy. Phone: (802) 434-3948. E-mail: wuerthner@earthlink.net. Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySqngrG_H6M&feature=channel. Link: http://www.wuerthnerphotography.com/about.html