Staff Ride to the South Canyon Fire

Facilitator Support

Maps

Information Sources

Stand Descriptions

Research and pre-study resources for the South Canyon Fire Staff Ride:

Local Contact Information

Glenwood Springs Bureau of Land Management Field Office
50629 Highways 6 & 24
Glenwood Springs, Colorado 81601
Phone (970) 947-2829

Documents and publications:

• Executive Summary of the Accident Investigation (1994), (HTML)
• OSHA Violation Notices (1995), (PDF, 360K)
• Interagency Management Review Team Report (1995), (PDF, 528K)
• Findings of the Human Factors Workshop (1995), (HTML)
• Wildland Firefighter Safety Awareness Study (1995-1998), (HTML)
• Fire Behavior Associated with the South Canyon Fire (1998), (HTML)
• Chronology for the South Canyon Fire (1998), (MS Word, 220K)
• 10 Years After South Canyon: Review of Firefighting Safety (2004), (MS Word, 44K)

• Effective Firefighting and Bending the Rules (Rhoades, 1994), (PDF, 800K)
• Collapse of Decision Making (Putnam, 1995), (PDF, 28K)
• South Canyon Revisited (Weick, 1995), (PDF, 28.7MB)
• "Fire on the Mountain" (Maclean, 1999), (HTML)
• Lessons Repeated by the Harshest of Teachers (Rogers, 2000), (PDF, 1.3MB)
• Similarities of Fatality Fires (Payne, 2004), (MS Word, 36K)
• Developing Leaders for Decision Making Under Stress (Useem, 2005), (PDF, 1.1MB)
• South Canyon: Reflections and Perspectives video ordering information (2006), (HTML)