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 Wildfire
Primer
An introduction to fire ecology and policies by
the Native Forest Network
Group
Releases Report on Regional Effects of 2003 Wildfires on Endangered
Species
The Center for Biological Diversity ("Center") released
a report Tuesday analyzing the potential regional effects of the
October 2003 southern California wildfires on four species listed
as threatened or endangered under the federal Endangered Species
Act.
Restoration
or Exploitation? Post-fire Logging in America's National Forests
This new report sheds light on the ecological impacts this damaging
form of logging causes to our National Forests and the significant
economic costs to the American taxpayer.
Separating
Fact from Fiction: Deconstructing the Myths Behind the Healthy Forests
Initiative
Regardless of your political leanings, everyone should agree
that any national policy to protect homes from wildfire and restore
America's National Forests should be based on facts and common sense,
not on myths and unconfirmed data. Unfortunately, to achieve their
goal of increasing commercial logging in National Forests the Bush
Administration and some members of Congress have found it more convenient
to rely on the later, while completely ignoring the former.
General
Accounting Office Report Shows Federal Agencies Fail to Make Community
Protection a Priority
Study Demonstrates Forest Service, BLM Have Failed to Identify
Lands at Risk.
By
the Numbers
Facts About Wildfire and Logging
Commercial
Logging for Wildfire Prevention: Fact Vs Fantasies
Money
to Burn: The Economics of Fire and Fuel Management
Getting
Burned by Logging
In the first year of the Bush Administration, the United States
Forest Service inappropriately used National Fire Plan brush reduction
funds to plan large timber sales in the Sierra Nevada. Learn more
in this report from the John Muir Project.
What
the Government's Own Scientists Say About Logging and Wildfires
Using
the California Wildfires to Justify the "Healthy Forests"
Bill?
By Thomas Michael Power, Professor of Economics and Chairman
of the Economics Department at the University of Montana
Wildfire Links
* Wildfire Information Center: http://www.nativeforest.org/campaigns/wildfire_info_center
* Pacific Biodiversity Institute: http://www.pacificbio.org/wildfire2002.html
* Fire and Ecosystem Health: http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/swcbd/Programs/fire/index.html
* Western Fire Ecology Center: http://www.fire-ecology.org
* Current Wildfire Information: http://www.wildfirecentral.org
* Reducing the Rising Costs of Wildfires: http://www.taxpayer.net/forest/fromtheashes/html/index.htm
* Home Protection: http://www.firewise.org
* Wildland-Urban Fire Research: http://www.firelab.org/fbp/fbresearch/wui/pubs.htm
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