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.