Community Forestry Resources
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)