Fire Resources

These references provide information on fire and its role in natural areas. They are also included in the curriculum notebook as Education Resources.

Resources from the Florida Division of Forestry

• Florida Division of Forestry
• Florida Wildfire Prevention website for students and educators, Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Florida Division of Forestry, Tallahassee, Florida.
• Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Florida Division of Forestry. 2004. The natural role of fire.
• Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. Prescribed fire in the wildland urban interface (brochure). Florida Division of Forestry, Tallahassee, Florida.
• Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. Using fire wisely – Prescribed fire (brochure). Florida Division of Forestry, Tallahassee, Florida.
• Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services. Using fire wisely…Prevents wildfire (poster). Florida Division of Forestry, Tallahassee, Florida.

List of Education Resources

• Behm, A.L. and M.L. Duryea. January 2003 [Reviewed May 2009]. Fire in the wildland-urban interface: Considering fire in Florida’s ecosystems. Circular 1431. University of Florida, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, Gainesville, Florida.
• City of Gainesville, Department of Parks, Recreation and Cultural Affairs, Nature Operations Division. 2009. Prescribed fire.
• City of Gainesville, Department of Parks, Recreation and Cultural Affairs, Nature Operations Division. 2010. Nature Operations on Facebook.
• Cornell, J. 1979. Sharing the joy of nature with children. Dawn Publications, Nevada City, California.
• Danielson, R. January 21, 2002. Controlled burn’s smoke sets off alarms. St. Petersburg Times, Florida.
• Debra Childs Woithe, Inc and PBSJ. 2010. Sandhill and scrub: Fire interval. Pages 5-1–5-5; 5-21–5-23 in Florida’s wildlife legacy initiative statewide habitat reporting system: 2010 report. Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission, Tallahassee, Florida.
• Dendrochronology science websites: 
  http://web.utk.edu/~grissino
  www.ltrr.arizona.edu/treerings.html 
  www.dendrochronology.com
  www.sonic.net/bristlecone/dendro.html
• Evans, C. W., D. J. Moorhead, C. T. Bargeron, and G. K. Douce. 2006. Response to prescribed fire. Page 47 in Invasive plant responses to silvicultural practices in the South. University of Georgia, Bugwood Network, Tifton, Georgia.
• Fire Effects Information System (FEIS) plant and wildlife species information.
• Firewise USA program
• FireWorks Curriculum, USDA Forest Service.
• Florida Conservation Foundation, Inc. 1989. Common Florida natural areas (brochure). Reprinted by Pandion Systems, Inc., Gainesville, Florida.
• Florida Department of Transportation. 1999. Florida land use, cover and forms classification system, 3rd edition, Surveying and Mapping Office, Geographic Mapping Section, Tallahassee, Florida.
• Florida Division of the Society of American Foresters. 2010. Position statement: Forest loss and fragmentation.
• Florida Division of the Society of American Foresters. 2010. Position statement: Wildland fire.
• Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission
• Florida Natural Areas Inventory. 2010. Guide to the natural communities of Florida, 2010 edition, Tallahassee, Florida.
• Florida State Forests
• Florida State Parks
• Georgia Department of Natural Resources. Prescribed Burning in Georgia. Georgia Natural Heritage Program. Nongame Wildlife & Natural Heritage Section, Georgia Department of Natural Resources, Wildlife Resources Division, Social Circle, Georgia.
• Gopher Tortoise Council
• Jeffery, D. February 1989. “The Great Yellowstone Fire.” National Geographic 175(2): 255-273.
• Johnson, H., P. Nelson, and S. Quinlan. 1993. Updated 2008. The role of fire in Alaska (K-12 curriculum guide). U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Anchorage, Alaska.
• Long, A.J. April 2002 [Reviewed September 2006]. Benefits of prescribed burning. FOR 70. University of Florida, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, Gainesville, Florida.
• Long, A.J. April 2002. Prescribed burning regulations in Florida. FOR 67. University of Florida, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, Gainesville, Florida.
• Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry. July 1996. FIRE! A teacher’s guide to fire ecology in the southeastern United States. Louisiana Department of Agriculture and Forestry, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
• Main, M.B., G.W. Tanner. November 1999 [Reviewed August 2009]. Effects of fire on Florida’s wildlife and wildlife habitat. WEC137. University of Florida, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, Gainesville, Florida.
• McAvoy, D.J. The Missing Fires (video). 2001. Utah State University Extension Service, Logan, Utah.
• Mims, T. 1999. Turpentining: One of the South’s oldest forest industries. Alabama’s Treasured Forests, Alabama Cooperative Extension Service, Tuscaloosa.
• Monroe, M., and A. Long. January 2001 [Reviewed August 2006]. Landscaping in Florida with fire in mind. FOR 71. University of Florida, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, Gainesville, Florida.
• Monroe, M. and Marynowski, S. April 2002 [Reviewed August 2006]. Developing land in Florida with fire in mind: Recommendations for designers, developers, and decision makers. FOR 63. University of Florida, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, Gainesville, Florida.
• Monroe, M.C. February 2009. Where there’s fire, there’s smoke. FOR 62. University of Florida, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, Gainesville, Florida.
• Monroe, M.C., G.Babb, and K.A. Heuberger. November 1999 [Reviewed August 2006]. Designing a prescribed fire demonstration area. FOR 64. University of Florida, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, Gainesville, Florida.
• Monroe, M.C., S.K. Jacobson, S.M. Marynowski, and A. Bowers. March 2000 [Reviewed August 2006]. Wildland fire education handbook. Circular 1245. FOR 72, 73, 74, 75 [Revised July 2001], 76, 78. University of Florida, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, Gainesville, Florida.
• Mullins, G.W. 1995. Fire Ecology Resource Management Education Unit, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio.
• Mullins, G.W. 1999. Study guide for the IMAX® film wildfire: Feel the heat. Discovery Pictures.
• Myers, R.L., and J.J. Ewel. 1990. Ecosystems of Florida. University of Central Florida Press, Orlando, Florida.
• NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Earth Observatory. 2001. Carbon on the land and in the oceans: The modern carbon cycle.
• National Fire Protection Association
• National Interagency Fire Center
• Natural Areas Training Academy
• NOAA National Climatic Data Center’s Historical Significant Event Imagery satellite imagery of smoke plumes
• One Message, Many Voices: A Regional Prescribed Fire Messaging Campaign for the Southern Region of State Foresters. 2009. Good fires and Visit my forest websites.
• Pine Gum / Turpentining
• Project Learning Tree. 1998. American Forest Foundation, Washington D.C.
• Smokey Bear website
• Sparky the Fire Dog’s fun page
• St. Johns River Water Management District. 1999. Prescribed fire: A prescription for a healthy Florida (brochure). Division of Land Management, Palatka, Florida.
• Tall Timbers Research Station and Land Conservancy. 2010. The fire ecology program at Tall Timbers.
• Tall Timbers Research Station and Land Conservancy. Fire in the Southland (video), Tallahassee, Florida.
• Tanner, G.W., W.R. Marion, and J.J. Mullahey. May 1997. Understanding fire: Nature’s land management tool. Circular 1018. University of Florida, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, Gainesville, Florida.
• Temperate Forest Foundation. Two Sides of Fire (video). Temperate Forest Foundation, Beaverton, Oregon.
• The Nature Conservancy. 2008. Global fire initiative.
• The Wilderness Society. 2008. Factsheet on carbon cycling.
• Tree Cookies Activity. American Forest Foundation, Project Learning Tree.
• U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service Southern Region. 1989. A guide for prescribed fire in southern forests, Technical Publication R8-TP 11, Washington, D.C.
• U.S. Department of the Interior: Bureau of Land Management and Florida State University. Burning issues (Interactive CD-ROM). Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida.
• U.S. Department of the Interior and U.S. Department of Agriculture. 2009. Geospatial multi-agency coordination: Wildland fire support (GeoMAC).
• U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 2010. Fire management.
• U.S. Forest Service wildfire resources.
• U.S. Forest Service and the National Association of State Foresters. Fire’s role in nature (poster).
• WFSU, The Florida Channel, and Florida Department of Education. Where there’s fire (video). Florida Department of Education, Tallahassee, Florida.
• Wildland Fire Lessons Learned Center