A year ago, between May 11 and 17, 2013, visitors to Wildfire Today were reading these articles:
- The Senate confirmed President Obama’s nomination of Sally Jewel as secretary of Interior. At the time Ms. Jewell was the CEO of Recreational Equipment (REI).
- The Administration of President Obama recommended a reduced budget in Fiscal Year 2014 for wildland fire, slashing by 41 percent the funds allocated for reducing hazardous fuels, and cutting the preparedness and suppression budget by 8 percent.
- U.S. Forest Service scientists transfer the results of their research to middle schools.
- An Incident Management Team arranges to blend, roast, package, and create labels for their own coffee.
- A graphical history of critical fire weather in Albuquerque.
- A CAL FIRE chief pleads not guilty to vehicular manslaughter.
- USFS Chief: “We will have the resources we need”.
- Report: nuclear physicist started Colorado’s Galena Fire
Six years ago, between May 11 and 17, 2008, visitors to Wildfire Today were reading these articles:
- Yellowstone, 20 years after the 1988 fires.
- Private firefighting companies in southern California.
- “Wildland Firefighter” demobilizes.
- Firefighters take a train to a fire.
- Corvette fire apparatus in Dubai.
- A laser-guided bomb from an F-18 missed its target in a bombing range by a mile and started a fire in a National Forest.
