Resources for Land Managers
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UF/IFAS Publications
- Benefits of Prescribed Burning
- Designing a Prescribed Fire Demonstration Area
- Developing Land in Florida with Fire in Mind: Recommendations for Designers, Developers, and Decision Makers
- Effects of Fire on Florida’s Wildlife and Wildlife Habitat
- Fire in the Wildland-Urban Interface: Considering Fire in Florida's Ecosystems
- Fire in the Wildland-Urban Interface: Understanding Fire Behavior
- Prescribed Burning Regulations in Florida
- Understanding Fire: Nature's Land Management Tool
- Where There’s Fire There’s Smoke: Air Quality and Prescribed Burning in Florida
- Wildfire Risk Assessment Guide for Homeowners in the Southern United States [PDF]
Florida Division of Forestry Publications
- Be Firewise After the Storm [PDF]
- Good Fire, Bad Fire [PDF]
- Mobile Home Fire Safety [PDF]
- Outdoor Burning [PDF]
- Prescribed Fire In the Wildland/ Urban Interface [PDF]
- Wildfire Mitigation in Florida [PDF] [3.2 M]
- Woodland Home Fire Safety [PDF]
Reference Information
Southern Fire Encyclopedia
The database contains over 600 pages of peer-reviewed syntheses of scientific knowledge about fire science in the southern United States. Photos, graphics, plus a large bibliography and access to several fire science databases are included.
Your Forest Managed
This web site contains a wealth of information on cost-sharing and education programs, pest and disease control, healthy harvest and planting practices, and many other useful topics.
Wildland Fire Lessons Learned
The Center provides an opportunity to foster collaboration among all fire professionals, facilitates their networks, and provides access to state-of-the-art learning tools. Features include current wildland fire news, updates regarding recent advancements in wildfire management, an online library containing links to resources and past case studies, and a wealth of educational materials.
Forestry Images
A collection of forestry related images that can be downloaded for educational purposes. Type " fire" in the search box to find related images. Registration is free.
Southern Center for Wildland-Urban Interface Research and Information
Descriptions of research projects and related publications addressing a variety of interface issues.
Anatomy of a Prescribed Burn
The Florida Division of Forestry web site provides a picture representation of what is occurring simultaneously during a prescribed burn.
Tall Timbers
Fire Ecology Program provides land managers with applicable, science-based information on prescribed fire and vegetation dynamics in the southern pine ecosystem.
A Guide For Prescribed Fire in Southern Forests
The Alabama Private Forest Management Team has developed an excellent prescribed fire section on their Web site which provides basic information needed to help you become technically proficient in the proper use of prescribed fire.
Fire Management Today
A clearinghouse for new techniques, technologies, and ideas in wildland firefighting.
LANDFIRE Project
Landscape Fire and Resource Management Planning Tools Project is an interagency vegetation, fire, and fuel characteristics mapping project across the United States. A couple of the data products features include identifying high risk areas and modeling real-time fire behavior to support tactical decisions to ensure sufficient wildland firefighting capacity and safety.
The Nature Conservancy—Global Fire Initiative
Obtain publications, research updates, workshop dates, and fire related news.
GeoMAC Wildland Fire Support
An internet-based mapping application designed to access online maps of current fire locations and perimeters in the conterminous 48 States and Alaska. Using a standard web browser, fire personnel can view this information to pinpoint the affected areas.
Wildland Fire Education Handbook
This handbook originally accompanied the Wildland Fire Education Toolkit which consisted of print materials, videos, CD-Rom, and roadside sign. The toolkit, in its entirety, may be borrowed from your Florida County Extension or Florida Division of Forestry office. Much of what is in the Toolkit is now available on the web in this handbook and its companion documents.
This handbook was produced by the University of Florida with assistance from a grant by the Advisory Council on Environmental Education of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.
Chapter 1: Introduction to the Wildland Fire Education Handbook
Chapter 2: Publications on Wildland Fire
Chapter 3: Audio-Visual Resources on Wildland Fire
Chapter 4: Press Kit for Wildland Fire
Chapter 5: Wildland Fire Demonstration Areas
Chapter 6: Reporting Wildland Fire Activities
Chapter 7: Wildland Fire Appendices and Acknowledgements
General Resources
- UF/IFAS Sites
- Solutions for Your Life
- Florida's Forest Stewardship Program
- Florida Friendly Landscaping
- Florida Yards and Neighborhoods
- Gardening in a Minute
- Horticulture
- Landscape Plants
- School of Forest Resources and Conservation Extension
- State & Federal Agencies
- Bureau of Land Management
- Florida Division of Forestry
- Missoula Fire Sciences Lab
- National Fire Plan
- National Interagency Fire Center
- Southern Center for Wildland-Urban Interface Research and Information
- U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
- Other sites
- Firewise Communities
- National Fire Protection Association
- Southern Fire Encyclopedia
- Tall Timbers
- The Nature Conservancy
