The State of Minnesota tapped into FireWise, an organization funded by Wildland/Urban Interface Working Team (WUIWT) of the National Wildfire Coordinating Group, aimed at involving communities in preventing fires, to map areas threatened by a blowdown of trees in 1999. The project is now up and running

Of note:

"The system utilizes Spatial Oracle, UMN MapServer and Java. Javascripting builds the front end html code for Web display."

Students do analytical work - mostly high schoolers, but also junior high students.

"The Minnesota Firewise program secured a modest grant from the National Fire Plan for the system to purchase software and hardware."

"...plans are in the works to allow the data to be displayed on a standardized client such as ArcGIS, Web Mapping Service (WMS), or Web Feature Service (WFS)."

- Government Technology