Forest-fire Warnings Cut From Testimony (CDC would have testified linking global warming and wildfires)

Apparent full version of CDC testimony (leaked by someone in the CDC)

San Diego Declaration on Climate Change and Fire Management

US Forest Service: Climatic Change, Wildfire, and Conservation

CBS News: Warming Climate Fuels Mega-Fires

Science Magazine: Warming and Earlier Spring Increase Western US Forest Fire Activity (fire season has lengthened by up to two months; what this means: yes, it snows in Buffalo — but if it snowed in Buffalo in August, we’d grasp that something has changed)

Science Daily: Massive California Fires Consistent With Climate Change

US Forest Service Appeals Archive (see for yourself if appeals are really holding up fuel reduction measures in California chaparral — the answer: at least not for the last ten years)

San Diego fire chief quit for lack of requested manpower and equipment

SF Chronicle: State National Guard Warns It’s Stretched to the Limit (Head of California National Guard says in May that needed equipment is in Iraq, elsewhere, or unfunded; in the same article, Gov. Schwarzenegger concurs that "equipment has gone to Iraq, and it doesn’t come back")

USA Today survey of National Guard equipment as of four months ago (California was rated at "50%" and reported to be short 800 Humvees, 700 tactical vehicles, and 50 heavy lifter trucks, although the spokesman maintained the state was still prepared)

Map of and photos of California chaparral (notice the distinct difference between chaparral and, for example, pine forest)

LA County Fire Dept. page on chaparral management (local ongoing activity simply not appealed by environmentalists)

United States Geological Survey brief (explains that in chaparral and coastal scrub, "catastrophic wildfires are not the result of unnatural fuel accumulation," limiting the value of prescription burning anyway)

LA Times: Forest Thinning Helps Spare Some Homes (true enough — but note that the area under discussion is Lake Arrowhead, whose 5100-ft. altitude is more comparable to Denver than San Diego, with a markedly different ecosystem including large stands of resin-laden pine, requiring different management)

Press-Enterprise: Speed Forest Thinning to Ease Fire Threat, Experts Say (again, the discussion here concerns Big Bear, a pine-rich mountain area at 6700 feet; the story explicitly links wildfires and the buildup of dead-tree fuel in part to climate change, beginning with "the nation’s worsening fire seasons are, in part, a consequence of global warming…")