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Glacier National Park
FireWorks Curriculum
 

Developed by the Fire Lab in Missoula, MT, this curriculm features ponderosa, lodgepole, and whitebark pine forests, and provides students with interactive, hands-on materials to study the forces that cause change in forests, particularly wildland fire.

The entire curriculum is on-line, complete with color graphics, on the U. S. Forest Service - Missoula Fire Sciences Lab website.

The FireWorks educational trunk is available for loan from Glacier National Park, as well as from Flathead National Forest.

The Robert Fire of 2003  

Did You Know?
Did you know that 2003 was one of the hottest recorded years in Glacier National Park's history? That year, approximately 144,000 acres burned from multiple wildfires.

Last Updated: October 01, 2008 at 08:44 EST