First Place, Aerial Resources.

Tanker 22 drops a load of retardant on the Missionary Ridge Fire, Colorado, 2002.  Photo by Ben Croft, , USDA Forest Service, Missoula Technology and Development Center, Missoula, MT..

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First Place, Prescribed Fire. 

A backing fire consumes dry vegetation in a prescribed burn unit at Stillwater National Wildlife Refuge, NV, 2002.  Photo is by John Wood, U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Klamath Basin National Wildlife Refuge Complex, CA.   

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First Place, Wildland Fire. 

Intense fire heat consumed the fine fuels and became ghost ash during the Kinishba Fire in Arizona. Photo: Kari Greer, National Interagency Fire Center, Boise, ID, 2003.

First Place, Ground Resources.

Baker River Hotshot crewmembers hold line during a night burnout on the Tiller Complex.  Fire from below casts shadows in the smoke.  Oregon, summer 2002. Photo by Eli Lehmann, USDA Forest Service, Mount Baker Snoqualmie National Forest, WA.

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First Place, Miscellaneous. 

Nearby smoke provides for a great sunrise at the Eyerly fire base camp, Oregon, summer 2002.  Photo by Eli Lehmann, USDA Forest Service, Mount Baker Snoqualmie National Forest, WA.

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