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According to The Missoulian (archive):
Several of Missoula's top federal fire scientists have been denied permission to attend the International Fire Congress later this month, leading conference organizers to suspect censorship of climate-related research.
"Anyone who has anything related to climate-change research — right away was rejected," said Timothy Ingalsbee of the Association for Fire Ecology, a nonprofit group putting on the gathering. Ingalsbee noted that was his personal opinion, and that the AFE [Association for Fire Ecology] is concerned that a federal travel restriction policy may be more to blame.
The Missoulian also said (archive):
The scientists no longer attending include Matt Jolly, who was to present new work on "Climate-induced variations in global severe weather fire conditions," Karin Riley on "Fuel treatment effects at the landscape level: burn probabilities, flame lengths and fire suppression costs," Mike Battaglia on "Adaptive silviculture for climate change: Preparing dry mixed conifer forests for a more frequent fire regime," and Dave Calkin, who was working on ways to manage the human response to wildfire.
takyon: Also at Scientific American (thanks to another Anonymous Coward).
(Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 13 2017, @09:53AM
Missoula: Hell's Gate. Everyone who knows the Salish origin of the name knows what it means. But usually it referred to that path to the West, the Buffalo Trail, to the lands of the Blackfeet. But now, Missoula has become Minas Tirith, the last city of Men, and they fight both the goblin forces of the East, Trumps orcs and political appointees, and the new forces of Secretary Zinke, who attacks from his stronghold formerly known as "Isengard", now called "Whitefish". And a new kind of Orc is being breed in Whitefish, only half-human, the other half either Californian or Neo-Nazi, imported from Virginia or Northern Idaho. And they are massing their forces. The silencing of scientists is only their first move! I do believe the Riders of Ronan will have to mobilize to fight the threat, taking refuge in their stronghold of BigFork. Dark days indeed are these, for the Men of the West.