WILDFIRE NEWS OF THE DAY - 021114

United States

(1) Wildfire NOTD subscriber Bruce Courtright, Chairman of the National Institute for the Elimination of Catastrophic Wildfire, sent along an article which disputes claims that major wildfires are detrimental to forests in the West
Examining Historical and Current Mixed-Severity Fire Regimes in Ponderosa Pine and Mixed-Conifer Forests of Western North America

California

(2) CAL FIRE's San Luis Obispo Unit has fire crews and aircraft standing by as drought conditions persist along the Central Coast
Last week's rain helps firefighters, but they say they need more

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