There are a number of web sites that help people heading for the outdoors.
The one I use the most it the smoke plume web site (yes, it’s getting pretty bad). SSD Fire Detection Program.
Yellowstone Park Wildland Fires
U.S. air quality (suggestion by Mike Post)
GeoMAC Wildfire Information (suggestion by Buffaloed)
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Dr. Ralph Maughan is professor emeritus of political science at Idaho State University. He was a Western Watersheds Project Board Member off and on for many years, and was also its President for several years. For a long time he produced Ralph Maughan’s Wolf Report. He was a founder of the Greater Yellowstone Coalition. He and Jackie Johnson Maughan wrote three editions of “Hiking Idaho.” He also wrote “Beyond the Tetons” and “Backpacking Wyoming’s Teton and Washakie Wilderness.” He created and is the administrator of The Wildlife News.
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Here’s another good one Ralph:
http://alg.umbc.edu/usaq/
Thanks Mike.
That web site looks very promising.
I still like this one.
http://geomac.usgs.gov/viewer/viewer.htm
Buffaloed,
Thanks. I like your suggestion because it shows the relative size of the fires.