Web Tools for Forest Fires

By On August 2, 2008 · 4 Comments · In Wildfire

There are a number of web sites that help people heading for the outdoors.

The one I use the most it the smoke plume web site (yes, it’s getting pretty bad). SSD Fire Detection Program.

Inciweb.

National Fire News.

Yellowstone Park Wildland Fires

U.S. air quality (suggestion by Mike Post)

GeoMAC Wildfire Information (suggestion by Buffaloed)

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Ralph Maughan

Dr. Ralph Maughan is professor emeritus of political science at Idaho State University with specialties in natural resource politics, public opinion, interest groups, political parties, voting and elections. Aside from academic publications, he is author or co-author of three hiking/backpacking guides, and he is past President of the Western Watersheds Project and the creator of The Wildlife News.

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4 Responses to Web Tools for Forest Fires

  1. avatar Mike says:
    August 2, 2008 at 8:46 pm

    Here’s another good one Ralph:

    http://alg.umbc.edu/usaq/

  2. avatar Ralph Maughan says:
    August 2, 2008 at 10:08 pm

    Thanks Mike.

    That web site looks very promising.

  3. avatar Buffaloed says:
    August 3, 2008 at 10:27 pm

    I still like this one.

    http://geomac.usgs.gov/viewer/viewer.htm

  4. avatar Ralph Maughan says:
    August 4, 2008 at 8:43 am

    Buffaloed,

    Thanks. I like your suggestion because it shows the relative size of the fires.

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‎"At some point we must draw a line across the ground of our home and our being, drive a spear into the land and say to the bulldozers, earthmovers, government and corporations, “thus far and no further.” If we do not, we shall later feel, instead of pride, the regret of Thoreau, that good but overly-bookish man, who wrote, near the end of his life, “If I repent of anything it is likely to be my good behaviour."

~ Edward Abbey

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