FOREST FIRE in IDAHO Idaho Fire Updates & Links Idaho Forests by the Numbers - 2011 facts Study: Simulating fuel treatment effects in dry forests of the western United States NEW Testing the principles of a fire-safe forest. Report: How Thinning Helps Reduce Wildfire Risks NEW To learn more about Idaho Forests and Fire, checkout "Forest At A Crossroads Fire Ecology - Eco-Link publication of the Temperate Forest Foundation (pdf, 2.2Mb) Trends in U.S. Wildfires and Idaho Forest Fuel Loading Fact Sheet #3 - PAG report (pdf, 474kb) LINKS Wildfire Risk Assessment for the 17 Western States Forest Service Report on How Thinning Saved Homes in the 2011 Arizona Wildfires The 1910 fire! Information and Links 2010 was the 100th anniversity of the 1910 fire! Learn what happened FOREST FOUNDATION STUDY QUANTIFIES GASES RELEASED INTO AIR FROM WILDLFIRES Smoke, Fire, and Forest Fuels Management by Dr Jay O'Laughlin, University of Idaho (pdf, 16Mb) US Forest Service National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC) Locate current wildfires near you Updated information on Idaho fires Current Active Fire Maps Daily Fire Situation (PDF file) NATIONAL FIRE WEATHER PAGE Disasters R Us Disasters and emergency management. Drought Map Northern Rockies Coordinating Center Fire Season 2010 - Idaho Statesman ARTICLES / EDITORIALS Former FS chiefs say fire costs eating budget (By PERRY BACKUS of the Missoulian, May 5, 2007) Timber industry focuses on biomass projects (BY JEFF BARNARD - AP, January 22, 2007) A burning question (By Tom Knudson - Bee Staff Writer, July 26, 2007) Wildland Fire Management: The National Fire Plan Cellulosic ethanol takes off! (Flambeau River Biorefinery, LLC of Wisconsin, 01/23/2007) Firefighting costs out of control, says panel (By NOELLE STRAUB Missoulian D.C. Bureau 07/27/2007) Forest Foundation Estimates Angora Fire Released 190,000 Tons of Greenhouse Gases (The Forest Foundation 07/23/2007) How we use forests affects fire behavior (By PETER KOLB, 08/01/2007) Idaho school keeps students warm by burning biomass (By Anne Wallace Allen, 11/06/2005) Fire Danger Fuels Trees-For-Fuels Plans (Associated Press, 1/20/07, pdf 57kb) RESEARCH PAPER SUPPORTS FUEL TREATMENTS TO REDUCE WILDFIRE THREATs (USDA report, Apr 2004, PDF 2.8MB) Fuel Treatments to Reduce Wildfire Threats (USFS report, 4/3/04) US Wildfire Trends, Area Burned (Evergreen Magazine, Spring 2003) We must all work together to protect our forests (Spokesman-Review, 9/18/02) New Bush forest policy taps into growing consensus (Seattle Times, 9/4/02) Huge fires call for new approach (For the Editorial Board, 8/27/02) Overgrown Forests Require Prevent ive Measures (USA Today Editorial, 8/21/02) Managed forests are healthier forests (Rocky Mountain News, 8/20/02) It's not all Smokey Bear's fault (Editorial Oregonian, 7/23/02) Forestry in the fifth dimension (The Washington Times, 7/15/02) Defiant firefighters snub feds (The Arizona Republic, 7/14/02) North Idaho can learn from Arizona disaster (Coeur d'Alene Press, 7/7/02) 'Cheery' notes on wildfires (Denver Post Columnist, 7/7/02) Fires spark thinning debate (Los Angeles Times, 6/30/02) Born to Be Wild? (Wall Street Journal, 6/25/02) Tree-thinning Stops Fire (News Science Writer, 6/21/02) The Fire This Time (Wall Street Journal Online, 6/21/02) Is 'Forest Management' an Oxymoron? (Denver Post Columnist, 6/12/02) The Fires This Time (The Washington Times, 6/02/02) STORIES Summer is no vacation for Wildlife The West is Burning-Up - The 1910 Fire Eyewitness accounts from 1910 Fire Was the 1910 fire the largest? A Clash of Titans Relations of Forests & Forest Fires Could the 1910 fire happen again?