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Comprehensive References

****. How Prescribed Burns Can Help Restore Eastern US Forests. [WIRED, APR 23, 2022 8:00 AM. Originally from Yale Environment 360] Boone, Iowa, 2022. View Full Entry (Full text available)
Henderson and Statz. Bibliography of Fire Effects and Related Literature. [Wis DNR Technical Bulletin 187] Madison, 1995. View Full Entry (Full text available)

Major References

****. Fifield Fire Lookout Tower. [Columns, July/August 2007, p. 7. in "State Register of Historic Places, Recent Wisconsin Additions"] Madison, 2007. View Full Entry (Full text available)
****. Residents Resisted Fire Control. [The First 100 Years, 1888-1988, Centennial Edition, p.140] Minocqua, 1988. View Full Entry
****. Wisconsin Forest Fires, 1894. [Wisconsin Conservation Bulletin, 29:4, July-Aug 1964, pp. 16-17.] Madison, 1964. View Full Entry
****. All Fired Up!. [Newsletter of the Wisconsin Chapter [of The Nature Conservancy], Winter 2003-2004] Madison, 2003. View Full Entry
****. Forest Fires Do Damage. [Montreat River Miner and Iron County Republican, July 15, 1910, p. 1.] Hurley, 1910. View Full Entry
****. Prescribed Burns Finally Underway at State Natural Areas after Cold Weather Delay. [Wis. DNR Weekly News Published - April 30, 2013] Madison, 2013. View Full Entry (Full text available)
Ackerman, Jolene. Germann Road Fire Property Assessments: Why Some Homes Survive. [Partners News, April, 2016, p. 18.] Conover, 2016. View Full Entry (Full text available)
Apfelbaum and Haney. Changes in Bird Populations During Succession Following Fire in the Northern Great Lakes Wilderness. [Lucas: Proceedings Natl Wild. Conf, 1983, USFS Gen. Tech. Rpt. INT-212] Ogden, Utah, 1985. View Full Entry
Balach, et al.. Human-started Wildfires Expand the Fire Niche Across the United States. [Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 114, #11, 2017] Washington, 2017. View Full Entry (Full text available)
Baldwin, A. G.. Burned: 12,000 Acres--On Purpose!. [Wisconsin Conservation Bulletin, 23:5, May 1958, pp. 18-19.] Madison, 1958. View Full Entry
Barker, Rocky. Scorched Earth. Washington, DC, 2005. View Full Entry
Barney, Richard J., Compiler. Proceedings of Fire Working Group, Society of Am. Foresters, Natl. Convention, Albuquerque, NM, Oct. 4, 1977.. Ogden, UT, 1977. View Full Entry
Bergquist, Lee. End of an Era: State to End Use of its 72 Forest Fire Towers. [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, December 17, 2015 (Web Version)] Milwaukee, 2015. View Full Entry (Full text available)
Bie, Michael. It Happened in Wisconsin. [It Happened in Series] Guilford, CT, 2007. View Full Entry
Brackett, Leroy. Is that Fire Necessary?. [Wisconsin Conservation Bulletin, 20:4, April 1955, pp. 27-29.] Madison, 1955. View Full Entry
Brown and Davis. Forest Fire Control and Use. [McGraw Hill Series in Forest Resources] New York, 1973. View Full Entry
Burke, Francis. YOU--and Wisconsin Forest Fires. [Wisconsin Conservation Bulletin, 25:8, Sept.-Oct. 1960, pp. 46-48.] Madison, 1960. View Full Entry
Butler, Beverly. My Sister's Keeper. New York, 1980. View Full Entry
Candy, R. H.. Discussion on the Reproduction and Development of White Pine. [The Forestry Chronicle, Vol. 15, 1939, pp. 88-92.] Mattawa, ON , 1939. View Full Entry (Full text available)
Clepper, Henry. Crusade for Conservation. Washington, 1975. View Full Entry
Ecklund, et al.. Facing Fire!. [Wisconsin Natural Resources, 36:2, April 2012, center section.] Madison, 2012. View Full Entry (Full text available)
Garske, Steve. Tree of Life [Birch] in Trouble. [Mazina'igan, Winter 2016-2017, pp. 1 ff.] Odanah, 2016. View Full Entry (Full text available)
Goodspeed, Edgar. As I Remember. New York, 1953. View Full Entry
Graham, Samuel, et al.. Aspens Phoenix Trees of the Great Lakes Region. Ann Arbor, 1963. View Full Entry
Harper, et al.. Forest Practices and Productivity. [The Yearbook of Agriculture 1957: Soils] Washington, 1957. View Full Entry
Harrison, R. P.. Aspen Management. [Wisconsin Conservation Bulletin, 20:2, Feb. 1955, pp. 18-22.] Madison, 1955. View Full Entry
Hill, Barry. Wildland Fire Management: Reducing the Threat of Wildland Fires. [GAO-02-843T (Testimony)] Washington, 2002. View Full Entry (Full text available)
Huff and Agee. Wilderness Fire Research. [Lucas: Proceedings Natl Wild. Conf, 1983, USFS Gen. Tech. Rpt. INT-212] Ogden, Utah, 1985. View Full Entry
Huppert, John. DNR Uses Fire for Forest, Wildlife Habitat Management. [Vilas County News Review, Emergency Services supplement, p. 26, October 6, 1999.] Eagle River, 1999. View Full Entry
Josephson and Wilson. Forests for the Future. [After a Hundred Years, Yearbook of Agriculture, 1962, pp. 229-232] Washington, 1992. View Full Entry
Kates, James. Planning a Wilderness. [Published in cooperation with the Center for American Places, Santa Fe, NM, and Harrisonburg, VA] Minneapolis, 2001. View Full Entry
Keoke & Porterfield. 100 Amazing Indian Discoveries. [National Muesue of the American Indian, Fall, 2004] Washington, 2004. View Full Entry (Full text available)
Knauth, Percy. North Woods. [The American Wilderness] New York, 1972. View Full Entry
Krech, Shepard. Ecological Indian, Myth and History. NY, 1999. View Full Entry
Lapin, Carly. Northern Dry-Mesic Forest--The Pineries of the Northwoods. [NAHL State Forest Visitor's Guide 2021, pp. 61-62.] Minocqua, 2021. View Full Entry
Lapin, Carly. Plum Lake Hemlock Forest SNA. [NHAL State Forest Visitor's Guide, 2018, "Natural Community Spotlight,", P. 13] Minocqua, 2018. View Full Entry (Full text available)
Lapin, et al.. Where There's Smoke. [NAHL State Forest Visitor's Guide 2021, pp. 44-45.] Minocqua, 2021. View Full Entry
LeMay, Neil. Fire Control in Pine Stands. [Wisconsin Conservation Bulletin, March, 1954.] 1954. View Full Entry
Leatherman, Courtney. Climate for Fire. [Nature Conservancy Magazine, Autumn, 2009, p. 11.] Arlington, VA, 2009. View Full Entry
Lemay, Neil H.. History of Forest Fire Protection in Wisconsin. [The Timber Producer, No. 5, June, 1986, pp. 28-32.] 1986. View Full Entry
Lotan, James E. et al.. Effects of Fire on Flora, A State-of-Knowledge Review Prepared by the Forst Service Natl. Fire Effects Workshop, Denver, April, 1978.. [US Forest Service General Technical Report WO-16] Washington, 1981. View Full Entry
Lowden, Merle. Fighting Forest Fires. [After a Hundred Years, Yearbook of Agriculture, 1962, pp. 238-242] Washington, 1962. View Full Entry
Maissurow, D. K.. Fire as a Necessary Factor in the Perpetuation of White Pine. [Journal of Forestry, Vol. 33, 1935, pp. 373-8.] Bethesda, MD, 1935. View Full Entry
Maissurow, D. K.. Role of Fire in the Perpetuation of Virgin Forests of Northern Wisconsin. [Journal of Forestry, Vol. 39, #2, 1941, pp. 201-207] Bethesda, MD, 1941. View Full Entry
Meyer, Thomas, ed.. Plum Lake Hemlock Forest. [Wisconsin, Naturally, DNR PUB-115 2003, Page 130] Madison, 2003. View Full Entry
Mladenoff et al.. Broad-scale Change in the Northern Forests. [Waller & Rooney, eds.: The Vanishing Present, Chapter 5.] Chicago, 2008. View Full Entry
Mlot, Christine. When the Smoke Clears. [Nature Conservancy Magazine, 52:4, Winter 2002, p. 18.] Arlington, VA, 2002. View Full Entry
Montanto and Larson. Lessons from Tree-ring Records of Ishkode. [Mazina'igan, A Chronicle of the Lake Superior Ojibwe, Summer 2021, page 2.] Odanah, 2021. View Full Entry (Full text available)
Morris, Jennifer / K.W. / Emma Marris. A Good Time for Fire / 60 Years of Fire / Finding Hope in the Ashes. [Editorial and two brief articles from Nature Conservancy Magazine, Summer 2022, Pages: 4-5 / 12-13 / 62 ] Arlington, Virginia, 2022. View Full Entry
Nazzaro, Robi. WILDLAND FIRE MANAGEMENT Federal Agencies Have Taken Important Steps Forward, but Additional, Strategic Action Is Needed to Capitalize on Those Steps. [GAO-09-877] Washington, 2009. View Full Entry (Full text available)
North Central Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission. Plan Summary; Towns of Conover and Land O'Lakes Community Wildfire Protection Plan. Land O'Lakes and Conover, 2009. View Full Entry (Full text available)
Ostergren, Robert C. and Thomas R. Vale, eds.. Wisconsin Land and Life. [A North Coast Book of the UW Press] Madison, 1997. View Full Entry
Pendowski, Paul. When Peshtigo Burned. [Wisconsin Conservation Bulletin, 36:4, July-Aug 1971, pp. 8-9.] Madison, 1971. View Full Entry
Pinchot, Gifford. Breaking New Ground. [Americana Library, Robert E. Burke, Editor] Seattle, 1947. View Full Entry
Pohlman, John. What's the Status of Prescribed Burning?. [Wisconsin Conservation Bulletin, 37:6, Nov-Dec, 1972, pp. 18-19.] Madison, 1972. View Full Entry
Pyne, Stephen. Still-Burning Bush. Melbourne, Australia, 2006. View Full Entry
Pyne, Stephen. Year of the Fire (1910). New York, 2001. View Full Entry
Rasmussen, Charlie Otto. Native Fire Management Returns to Apostle Islands. [Mazina'igan, A Chronicle of the Lake Superior Ojibwe, Winter 2017/2018] Odanah, 2017. View Full Entry (Full text available)
Solberg, Erling. New Laws for New Forests. Madison, 1961. View Full Entry
Stokes and Dieterich. Fire History Workshop, 1980, Tucson. [USDA Forest Service, General Technical Report RM-81.] Fort Collins, CO, 1980. View Full Entry
Stolzenburg, William. New Views of Ancient Times. [Nature Conservancy, V.44, #5, Sept/Oct 1994, p.10] Arlington, VA, 1994. View Full Entry
Swingler, W. S.. Programs for Forest Management. [Land, Yearbook of Agriculture, 1958] 1958. View Full Entry
Thwaites, Ruben. Stories of the Badger State. [Contained on the CD "Wisconsin" which is number 2119 in this bibliography] New York, 1900. View Full Entry
Tiedemann, Arthur et al.. Effects of Fire on Water, A State-of-Knowledge Review Prepared for the Forest Service National Fire Effects Workshop, Denver, Colo., April 10-14, 1978. [USDA, Forest Service, General Technical Rep;ort WO-10] Washington, 1978. View Full Entry
Trachtman, Paul. Fire Fight. [Smithsonian Magazine, 34:5, August 2003, pp.42-52.] Washington, 2003. View Full Entry
US Agriculture, Dept. of, Forest Service, Intermountain Forest and Range Experiment Station. Proceedings--Symnposium and Workshop on Wilderness Fire, Missoula, MT Nov. 1983. [US Forest Service General Technical Report INT-182] Ogden, UT, 1985. View Full Entry
US, General Accouting Office. Federal Fire Management: Limited Progress in Restarting the Prescribed Fire Program. [GAO/RCED-91-42] Washington, 1991. View Full Entry (Full text available)
Van Wagner, C. E.. Age-class Distribution and the Forest Fire Cycle. [Canadian Journal of Forest Research, Vol. 8, 1978, pp. 230-261/] Ottawa, 1978. View Full Entry
Vilas, Jack. My Life, To My Children. [Revised Edition by Mary J. Schueller] Richfield, WI, 2007. View Full Entry
Vogl, Richard John. Effects of Fire on Some Upland Vegetation Types. [Ph.D. Thesis] Madison, 1961. View Full Entry
Waller and Rooney, eds.. Vanishing Present, The: Wisconsin's Changing Lands, Waters, and Wildlife. Chicago, 2008. View Full Entry
Wells, Robert. Fire at Peshtigo. [Double volume: Fire and Ice, Two Deadly Wisconsin Disasters] Madison, 1983. View Full Entry
Wennersten, John. The Chesapeake Environment. [Maryland Historical Magazine 91:2, Summe, 1996, pp.156-179] Baltimore, 1996. View Full Entry
Wilson and Steigerwaldt, photographers. What's Going On?. [Wisconsin Conservation Bulletin, January, 1956, back cover.] Madison, 1956. View Full Entry
Wisconsin, Natural Resources, Dept. of. Their Future Our Responsibility: Wisconsin 1981 Forest Fire Report. Madison, 1982. View Full Entry
WI DNR Division of Forest. Spreading Like Wildfire. [Wisconsin Natural Resources, Vo. 29, #2, April 2005, pp. 16 ff.] Madison, 2005. View Full Entry (Full text available)
Wuerthner, George, ed.. Wildfire: A Century of Failed Forest Policy. Sausalito, CA, 2006. View Full Entry
Zaffos, Joshua. Keepers of the Flame. [Nature Conservancy Magazine, Aug/Sept 2016, pp. 28-39, 62, 64] Arlington, VA, 2016. View Full Entry (Full text available)

Minor References

****. Village of Star Lake, Wis., Nearly Wiped Out by Forest Fires. [Sious City Journal, July 3, 1910, p. 1.] Sioux Cityk, Iowa, 1910. View Full Entry (Full text available)
National Park Service. Prescribed Fire Restores Culltural Landscape at Apostle Islands National Lakeshore. [National Park Service, one page fact sheet] Bayfield, 2015. View Full Entry
Sear, Paul. Deserts on the March. Norman, Oklahoma, 1947. View Full Entry
Wisconsin DNR. Wildfire Suppression. [DNR online fact sheet, January 19, 2015] Madison, 2015. View Full Entry (Full text available)

GREAT LAKES FOREST FIRE COMPACT

In 1983, fire managers from Minnesota, Michigan and Wisconsin met at the Indian Head Resort in Wakefield, Michigan to discuss mutual concerns and needs. From that initial meeting the Great Lakes Forest Fire Compact was organized. The state managers requested the support of the Northeastern Area State and Private Forestry-U.S. Forest Service. Also, the state managers agreed that it would be beneficial if Ontario were a member. In September 1989, Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin signed the first agreement and the Great Lakes Forest Fire Compact was officially established. Ontario was a participant from the beginning but the formal international approval came later. In 1998 Manitoba requested, and was approved to become a member. [Text from Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission website.]