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Natural History
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Fire Season Information:

      Fire Weather: National Weather Service
           This shows fire weather, by state, with watches and warnings. It has links to:

  Choose a zone and get a forecast. Fire Weather Forecasts
  Basin Complex Fire: Hastings RAWS went down. Click on link to right for nearby or temporary RAWS

Nearby RAWS- Basin Complex Fire

MIRA Chews Ridge Weather

     Los Padres National Forest Status Page

Status and Size of Fires- GeoMac
             Or: Cal Fire (State of CA) Incident Reports

  More pop-ups than a box of popcorn in a microwave, but a GIS with a clickable interface. Very slow. Can display in Google Earth. GeoMac
     
  You can select an area and zoom in to see fire boundaries, road names, etc. Updated each night. At large scales, maps show thermal satellite imagery of fire boundaries.. Zoom