Community Forestry Resources - Archive
Note: If you don't find what you're looking for here, be sure to check the current website pages under the above tabs for Forest Conservation and Community Forestry. Each page has links in the left and/or right hand columns that open up to additional pages. For example, Fire and Forest Ecology opens up to links to additional topics such as forest threats, salvage logging, threatened habitats and more. Each of these may also open up to additional pages. There is a lot of information here. Thanks for dropping by.
Community Protection
Firewise Communities USA
- Firewise Communities/USA
- National Wildfire Coordinating Group
- NWCG organization chart (15.6KB PDF)
- Firewise Landscaping
- Protecting Communities in the Wildland-Urban Interface
Community Protection Representatives
Conservation Community Wildfire Protection Planning
- The Sierra Nevada Community Conservation and Wildfire Protection Plan Guidebook can be found at - ForEverGreen Forestry (URL)
- State Foresters CWPP Guide (836KB PDF)
- California Fire Alliance CWPP information (URL)
Fire Science
Innovative Building Materials
- Fire Research for Safe and Durable Wood Structures (506KB PDF).
Firewise Landscaping
- Defensible Space Landscaping in the Urban/Wildland Interface:A compilation of fire performance ratings of residential landscape plants (220KB PDF) .
- Fire Resistant Landscaping Plants from the Sierra Springs area of El Dorado County (740KB PDF).
Fire News
- National Interagency Fire Center.
- CAL FIRE Information Page
- California Fire News
- U.S. Forest Service National Incident Information Center
- National Park Service Fire News – Active Fires
- Lassen National Park Fire Information
- Sequoia Kings Canyon National Park Fire Information
- Yosemite National Park Fire Information
- Satellite Imagery and Other Cool Mapping Tools To Track Current Fires
Protecting Communities in the Wildland Urban Interface
- Conservation Biology (URL)
Fire Safe Councils
California Fire Safe Council (URL)
Butte County
Plumas County
Sierra County
Yuba County
Central Sierra Nevada/ Lake Tahoe Basin
Alpine County
Amador County
El Dorado County
Mono County
Nevada County
Placer County
Tuolumne County
Southern Sierra Nevada
Kern County
Madera County
Mariposa County
Biomass and Small-Diameter Wood Utilization
Biomass to Energy
Roundwood
Dimensional Lumber
The Integrated Wood-use Sort Yard
Case Studies from the Sierra Nevada
Cedar Mill Eco-Farm
Calaveras Healthy Impact Product Solutions (CHIPS)
National Community Forestry Business Alliance
Sierra Forest Products
South Lake Tahoe High School
Case Studies from Elsewhere in the West
Gila WoodNet - Silver City, New Mexico
Healthy Forests, Healthy Communities Partnership – Portland, Oregon
Vaagen Brother’s Lumber – Colville, Washington
Wallowa Resources – Enterprise, Washington
The Watershed Center – Hayfork, California
White Mountain Stewardship Project – Apache-Sitgreaves NF, Arizona
Smoke Management
Sources of Pollution
Smoke Mitigation
Air Quality Science
- Mountain Counties Air Basin Monitoring Stations (49KB PDF).
Air Quality Policy
Interagency Smoke Management Council
The Evolving West
Myths of the West
Forest Community Economics
Sustainable Utilization of Forest Resources
- The Rocky Mountain Institute (URL)
- The Sierra Business Council (URL)
- The Sonoran Institute (URL)
- The Watershed Center (URL)
- The Healthy Forests, Healthy Communities Partnership (URL)
- Forest Stewardship Council (URL)