The 2002 Ponil Complex Fires at Philmont and the Aftermath

• Images of the Ponil Fire
  by the Payton hotshots

December 6, 2002:

• Assessment of Erosion Potential from the Ponil Fire, Philmont Ranch, New Mexico
  by Nick Sommer, University of Texas

• 2002 Philmont Fire Relief fund supported by the PSA
• Philmont Wildfires: Natural Phenomena and what you can do
  provided by John LeBlanc, Unit Commissioner, Three Rivers Council (Beaumont, TX); Associate Advisor, Venturing Crew 220 (Vidor, TX)

October 3, 2002:

• Philmont Scout Ranch: Record year despite fires
  An article in the Sangre de Christo Chronicle, by Erich Decker-Hoppen.

August 4, 2002:

• Philmont Fire Pictures
  provided by Frank Fernandez, BSA Troop 43 and VenturingCrew 43, South Florida Council, Tequesta District (Miami, FL)

August 1, 2002:

• Philmont After the Fire
  a report provided by Stan Herrin of Troop 36 (Springfield, IL), Crew 726-J2, Route 32FM02 (Trek 32, Modified because of the fire, in 2002)
• Pictures of Philmont After the Fire
  provided by Stan Herrin.

June 18, 2002:

• Fire Containment Notice 100% on June 18, 2002.
• Summer 2002 Fire News and pictures on the Web site of Philip Romans Ranger '94.'95; logistics '96
  • Philmont Fires
  • Philmont North Country Closure (& respiratory warning; in PDF format)
• Trek Changes: 2002
  On the Web site of the Philmont Staff Association

• Pacific Northwest Incident Management Team 2
  (Now responsible for the Ponil Complex fires at Philmont)
  • Middle Ponil, Metcalf, Office and Turkey Fires Incident Information
• National Interagency Fire Center:
  • Daily National Situation Report (in pdf format)
• USDA's Forest Service:
  • Fire Restrictions in Carson National Forest (which includes Valle Vidal)
  • Forest Service News about the "Middle Ponil Complex" fires.
  • Ponil Complex perimiter map (JPEG map)
  • Southwest Area Woodland Fire Operations: Fires in the SouthWestern U.S., including Philmont
  • Fire Reports
  • AVHRR Tyros Satellite InfraRed (and other) Images of the western U.S. (June, 2002)
• Earth Analytic Inc.
  • Middle Ponil Complex Fire map
• The Geospatial Multi-Agency Coordination Group of the U.S. Department of the Interior and the U.S. Geological Survey:
  • GeoMAC Wildland Fire Support: (with interactive wildland fire maps)
• NOAA's Operational Significant Event Imagery.
  • Images of "Fire Events" in the U.S. SouthWest, including Northern New Mexico (June 4, 2002)

June 11, 2002:

• NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center: MODIS Satellite images of fires in the SouthWestern U.S.
• Philmont Wildfire Status
  Provided by Sid Covington, Tour Director, Capitol Area Council, Philmont Contingent 2001-2003

June 6, 2002:

• Turkey Fire chars 615 acres
  An article in the Sangre de Christo Chronicle, by Ellen Miller-Goins and Erich Decker-Hoppen.

June 4, 2002:

• Philmont Wildfire Situation
  provided by Larry Tuck, SM, Troop 761 (Thousand Oaks, CA)
• Wildfires flare in Mora County, Vermejo and at Philmont
  on the Web site of KOBTV
• Fires burn thousands of acres in northeast New Mexico
  an Associated Press article by way of the Santa Fe New Mexican

May 29, 2002:

• Fire and Drought Conditions
  provided by David Wilson // LDS Chaplain 2002

• Selden's Philmont,
• High Adventure and
• Scouting Web Pages

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This Web page is maintained by Selden Ball at Wilson Lab.
Please send any comments or corrections to seb@lns.cornell.edu