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Damage Done By Wildfires Is Up Sharply, Official Says, James Brooke, The New York Times, 6/30/96, p. A11.

The Guanacaste Idea, David Tenenbaum, American Forests 11-12/94, pp. 28-31+.

The Greening of Costa Rica, David Tenenbaum, Technology Review, 10/95, pp. 42-52.

Introduction to Wildland Fire, Stephen Pyne et al, John Wiley and Sons, New York, second edition, 1996.

Modeling Forest Fires, Alexandra Witze, Technology Review, 2/95.

Monitoring fire activity in the Western Hemisphere with the new generation of geostationary satellites, Prins, E.M. and W.P. Menzel, 1996: 22nd Conference on Agricultural and Forest Meteorology with Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology, Atlanta, Ga., Jan 28-Feb. 2, 1996, pp. 272-275.

Only You Can Postpone Forest Fires, Ted Williams, Audubon, 7/95, pp. 36 ff.

Trends in South American Biomass Burning Detected With the GOES Visible Infrared Spin Scan Radiometer Atmospheric Sounder from 1983 to 1991, Prins, E.M. and W.P. Menzel, 1994, Journal of Geophysical Research., vol. 99, no. D8, 16719-16735.

U.S. to Use Fire in Managing its Lands, John Cushman, New York Times, 7/8/95.

World fire: The Culture of Fire on Earth, Stephen J. Pyne, New York, Henry Holt, 1995.

Yellowstone Rising Again From Ashes of Devastating Fires, Richard Stone, Science, 5 June 1998 pp. 1527-8.

Young Men & Fire, Norman Maclean, University of Chicago Press, 1992.

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A very hot page on what it's really like to fight fires for a living.

Here's the Forest Service's initiative on Western Forest Health. And here's their home. Not to mention their policy toward wildland fire.

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