Lookout: Buck Rock

Buck Rock Lookout
(36.7371392, -118.8606221) 

Twice a day Buck Rock needs to listen in on reports and note things in its log. Here are links which will provide the information for these reports:

• Listening In
• 1000 - Weather and Staffing
• All ECCDA Calif Fire Weather. Fire Weather - Usually is updated by 0700. Chose section ECCDA: 22 east of Fresno
  
• Staffing  - Morning (1000) staffing report. You will need the password to access this report. See the BRF email of 8/23/23 for it.
• 1600 - Indices and Weather
• Indices - Evening (1600) indices report. You will need the password to access this report. See the BRF email of 8/23/23 for it.
• All ECCDA Calif Fire Weather. Fire Weather - Usually is updated by 0700. Chose section ECCDA: 22 east of Fresno

• Weather
• Lightning Map
• from WeatherBug (Centered on Delilah) 
• NOAA Weather Station (data): Buck Rock (AU523) Utah's MesoWest
• Mesowest from Utah Sensors for California-change sensors to All Networks
  
• National Weather Service
• Forecasts
• Fire Weather Cloud Chart PMS438  (pdf)
• Relative Humidity Chart for 5,000-9,100'-caution the wet bulb is the difference between dry and wet reading. (pdf)
• Relative Fuel Moisture Chart (pdf)
• DEAD FUEL MOISTURE CONTENT CORRECTIONS-May, June, July (pdf)
• DEAD FUEL MOISTURE CONTENT CORRECTIONS-August, September, October (pdf)
• Probability of Ignition (pdf)
  
•  Sequoia National Forest
•   WildCAD-E  Includes information on incidents and resources.(Sequoia NF only)
• CCICC (Central California Interagency Command Center) web links 
• Staffing  - Morning (1000) staffing report. You will need the password to acccess this report. See the BRF email of 8/23/23 for it.
• Indices - Evening (1600) indices report. You will need the password to acccess this report. See the BRF email of 8/23/23 for it.
•  Sierra National
• WildCAD-E   Includes information on incidents and resources. (Sierra NF only)
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• Kings Canyon and Sequoia National Parks
• WildCAD-E - Includes information on incidents and resources. (SEKI only)
• Fire Information
•  InciWeb California - Presents a map of the US where you can drill down. Look for the fire icons
• CalFire Current Incidents
• NIFC
• Southern California Geographic Area Coordination Center
•   National Preparadiness Levels:
• Actual
• Other
• Yosemite
• Yosemite Fire and Aviation Facebook page
• California Fire Tracker - The San Francisco Chronicle maintains an interactive map of current and past fires.
• #FireMapper - ArcGIS Firemapping of hot spots. You will need to move around the map to where you want to see. 
• CalTopo Fire Map-use Buck Rock Lat/Long(36.7371392, -118.8606221) and click on Fire History or Fire Activity  
  
• Large Forest Service Fires-Historical documents-an FTP Site
• General
• Northern California Fires
• Southern California Fires
  
• Incident Response  Pocket Guide - PMS461, April 2018  (pdf)
• Lookout Information
•  Buck Rock Foundation
• Topo Map of the area (Not active yet)
• Azimuth from Buck Rock (Google Drive, xls, 1Mb)

• Air Quality
•  List of Monitor sites
• Buck Rock Lookout (Delilah, Park Ridge and Buck Rock) Area. Dates may need to be adjusted to the current date
  
• Trimmer (USFS 1043 )
• Grant Grove/Hume (SEKI1032 EBAM4 )
•  SEKI/General's Highway/Ash Mountain (SEKI1002 EBAM5)
• Obsolete sites
•  Porterville (NPS SEKI-BAM:90 Cammerer Way, Hammond, CA 93271)
• Porterville (SEKI1002 EBAM5:90 Cammerer Way, Hammond, CA 93271)
• Springville (1045Springville EBAM:36045 Highway 190, Springville, CA 93265)
• Three Rivers (SEKI1000 EBAM4:40870 Sierra Drive, Three Rivers, CA 93271, USA)
•  General's Highway (SEKI1003 EBAM6:Generals Highway, Sequoia National Park, Sequoia NP)
• Pinehurst (50 Pinehurst BAM:Pinehurst, California) 
• Three Rivers area (NPS4 eBAM) No longer in use
  
• Three Rivers (SEKI1001 EBAM3:40870 Sierra Drive, Three Rivers, CA 93271, USA) No longer in use
• Prather (USFS1016)  No longer in use
• North Fork (USFS 1013)  No longer in use
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• Pinhurst Air Quality - Real Time Monitoring 
• Grant Grove Air Quality - Real Time Monitoring
• Purple Air -graphical map of air quality
  
•  Air Now
• AirNow - Smoke Report - From Delilah Lookout
• Misc
• GNIS (Geographical Names Information System from USGS)
• WildCAD - Master list of WildCAD sites 
• Sunset/Sunrise times, along with night sky and other like information
  
• AirCraft Information - Flight Radar 24 -Centered on Delilah
• Wildfire Intel Discussion Forum for California 
• Alert Wild Fire - List of PG&E and other private webcams
• GOES-West Satellite  Image Viewer. Good for smokes
  
• California Smoke Report
• WildCAD - Inyo forest and others Includes information on incidents and resources. 
  
• NWCG Publications 
• Basic Land Navigation PMS475 
• Fire Behavior PMS437 
• Fireline Behavior Appendix B-Fire Behavior PMS410-2
• Understanding National Fire Danger Rating System PMS932
• Glossaries:
• National Forest Service Glossary of Fire Terminology 
• National Wildfire Coordinating Group (NWCG) Glossary
• WebCams 
• Buck Rock 1
• Buck Rock 2
  
• PG&E WebCam close to Mt Sampson 
• ALERTCalifornia webcams for cameras in our area. 
  

View from Buck Rock Lookout, as generated by PeakFinder.org

 From HeyWhatsThat.com, views captured from Google Earth showing what can be seen from Buck Rock Lookout.The red shading is what is visible from Buck Rock.

The South East view does not seem right as I could swear we could see a lot more than what is shown.

Buck Rock to the NorthEast

Buck Rock to the NorthWest

Buck Rock to the SouthEast

Buck Rock to theSouthWest