WEATHER (North Texas)

North Texas Fire Weather
www.boi.noaa.gov/FIREWX/FTWFWFFTW.html

National Weather Service (NWS) Ft. Worth
www.srh.noaa.gov/fwd/

NWS Tabular Forecast (3 day/3 hour blocks)
www.srh.noaa.gov/fwd/cgi-bin/get_text.pl?+FTWRDFFTW+1

Denton Weather at Weather.com
www.weather.com/weather/local/76201

Denton Hourly Forecast at Weather.com
www.weather.com/weather/hourbyhour/76201

Denton Weather Graphical Forecast at Weather Underground
www.wunderground.com/MOS/DisplayMOS.asp?AirportCode=KDTO&SafeCityName=Denton&StateCode=TX

LBJ Grasslands RAWS Weather Data
raws.boi.noaa.gov/obs2/TX_zz_LBJ_RD.html

Southern Area RAWS Stations
www.southernregion.fs.fed.us/sacc/weather/wxmaps/MAP%20SACC%20RAWS.htm

Southwest Area RAWS Stations
www.fs.fed.us/r3/fire/swapredictive/swaweather/swa-raws.htm
 

CURRENT FIRE INFORMATION

National Situation Report (Current)
www.nifc.gov/news/sitreprt.pdf

Current National Fire Map
www.nifc.gov/fireinfo/firemap.html

Southern Area Coordination Center Homepage (including Southern Area Situation Report)
www.southernregion.fs.fed.us/sacc/

Texas Situation Report
www.tamu.edu/ticc/state_summary/situation_report.htm

National Fire Maps
www.nifc.gov/firemaps.html

Current Wildfire Outlook Map (NIFC)
www.nifc.gov/news/Outlookmap.pdf
 

ORGANIZATIONS: Educational

UNT Chapter, Student Association for Fire Ecology
www.ias.unt.edu/~tc001/safe.html

Student Association for Fire Ecology (National)
www.ice.ucdavis.edu/cafe/safe/index.htm

The Association for Fire Ecology (AFE)
www.ice.ucdavis.edu/afe/
snap1.spatial.wwu.edu/afe/

Fire Ecology (eJournal)
snap1.spatial.wwu.edu/afe/FE/index.htm

Fire Science and Ecology College and University programs list
www.wildlandfire.com/docs/firesci_edu.htm
 

ORGANIZATIONS: Management

Texas Interagency Coordination Center (TICC)
www.tamu.edu/ticc/

Fire Training Information (including Texas Interagency Wildfire Academies)
www.tamu.edu/ticc/training.htm

National Interagency Fire Center
www.nifc.gov/

NIFC Prevention and Education
www.nifc.gov/preved/index.html

Texas Department of Agriculture, Prescribed Burning Board
www.agr.state.tx.us/pesticide/burnboard/pes_pbbmain.htm

The Nature Conservancy's (TNC) Fire Initiative Program
tncfire.org

Firewise (Urban Wildland Interface information)
www.firewise.org/

National Fire Plan
www.fireplan.gov/

Wildland Fire.com (wildland firefighters network)
www.wildlandfire.com/index.html

Wildland Fire job board
http://www.wildlandfire2.com/jobs.htm

TNC Fire Jobs
www.tncfire.org/jobs.html

Other (Federal) Fire Job pages:
Getting a job as a federal wildland firefighter: www.wfsi.org/WFS.wildjob.html
US Forest Service: www.fs.fed.us/people/employ/asap/
BLM firefighter FAQ about wildland firefighting: www.fire.blm.gov/faqs.html
BLM employment page: www.fire.blm.gov/recruit.htm
National Park Service: www.nps.gov/fire/jobs/index.htm
US Fish and Wildlife Service: fire.r9.fws.gov/jobs/employment.htm
 

BURN PLAN TEMPLATES AND EXAMPLES

LLELA Burn Plans (scroll to bottom of page)
www.ias.unt.edu/llela/research.htm

Texas Department of Agriculture, Prescribed Burning Plan Format (MS Word file)
www.agr.state.tx.us/pesticide/burnboard/pbbforms/burnplan.doc

TNC Burn Plan Format (MS Word file)
www.tncfire.org/burnplan.doc

NRCS Tennessee Prescribed Burning Procedures and Burn Plan (MS Word file)
www.tn.nrcs.usda.gov/TN_Tech_Notes/Agronomy/Prescribed%20Burning%20TN24%20FINAL.doc

NRCS Nebraska Prescribed Burning Management Plan (MS Word file)
www.ne.nrcs.usda.gov/techresources/Technology/Range/Jobsheets/NE-CPA-72.doc

The Florida Division of Forestry's Forest Protection Bureau, southern forest burn plan forms from USFS (PDF file)
flame.fl-dof.com/Env/RX/guide/Forms.pdf

Example Burn Plan for a bluestem prairie in Minnesota
www.greatplains.org/npresource/tools/burning/appenda.htm