The links below contain relevant information about fire history, fire management and ecological restoration associated with our guest editorial that appeared in High Country News, July 1, 2003.
http://www.cpluhna.nau.edu/Research/firesorelate.htm
http://geochange.er.usgs.gov/sw/impacts/biology/fires_SOI/
http://tree.ltrr.arizona.edu/sngc/studies/pftrd.htm
http://www.fort.usgs.gov/resources/spotlight/place/place_home.asp
http://biology.usgs.gov/luhna/chap9.html
http://www.ispe.arizona.edu/climas/learn/fire/index.html
http://www.nps.gov/seki/fire/fire_res.htm
http://forestfire.nau.edu
http://www.eri.nau.edu
pdf's of a few relevant articles can be accessed directly:
Allen, C.D. 2002. Lots of lightning and plenty of people: An ecological history of fire in the upland Southwest. Chapter 5 in: T.R. Vale (ed.), Fire, Native Peoples, and the Natural Landscape. Island Press, Covelo, CA.
Allen, C. D. M. Savage, D.A. Falk, K.F. Suckling, T.W. Swetnam, T. Schulke, P.B. Stacey, P. Morgan, M. Hoffman, and J.Klingel. 2002. Ecological restoration of southwestern ponderosa pine ecosystems: A broad perspective. Ecological Applications 12, 1418-1433.
Allen, C. D. and Breshears, D. D. 1998. Drought-induced shift of a forest-woodland ecotone: Rapid landscape response to climate variation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 95, 14839-14842.
Bogan, M.A., C.D. Allen, E.H. Muldavin, S.P. Platania, J.N. Stuart, G.H. Farley, P. Melhop, and J. Belnap. 1998. Southwest. Pages 543-592 in M.J. Mac, P.A. Opler, C.E. Puckett Haecker, and P.D. Doran (eds.). Status and trends of the nation's biological resources. Vol. 2. U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA.
Brown, T. J. and Betancourt, J. L. 2000. Effect of climate variability and forecasting on fuel treatment schedules in the western U.S. Proceedings of the USDA and DOI Fire Sciences Workshop.
Gray, S. T., Betancourt, J. L., Fastie, C. L., Jackson, S. T. 2003. Patterns and sources of multidecadal oscillations in drought-sensitive tree-ring records from the central and southern Rocky Mountains. Geophysical Research Letters 30, no. 6, p. 49-1 - 49-4, doi:10.1029/2002GL016154.
Statement of Norman L. Christensen, Jr., PhD. Before the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Regarding H.R. 1904 - the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003, 26 June 2003.
Swetnam, T.W., C.D. Allen, and J.L. Betancourt, 1999. Applied historical ecology: Using the past to manage for the future. Ecological Applications 64, 1189-1206.
Swetnam, T.W. and Betancourt, J.L. 1998. Mesoscale disturbance and ecological response to decadal-scale climate variability in the American Southwest. Journal of Climate 11, 3128-3147.
Westerling, A. L., Gershunov, A., Brown, T. J., Cayan, D. R., and Dettinger, M. D. 2003. Climate and Wildfire in the western United States. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, May issue, p. 595-604.
Written testimony prepared by Penny Morgan, Leon Neuenschwander and Tom Swetnam for a June 7th, 2000 hearing before the House Natural Resources subcommittee on Forest Health in Washington DC.
Written testimony for Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health, Oversight Hearing on Preventing Wildfires through Proper Management of the National Forests, August 14, 2000 in Albuquerque New Mexico.