11.14.2003 KGTV-TV Channel 10 (ABC)--Wildfire effects on animals--San Diego evening news story features Walter Boyce, UC Davis wildlife researcher, at a research site where wildfires killed 50-60 deer and other animals.
11.3.2003 San Jose Mercury News--Naturalists worried about rare wildlife: Fires tear through habitat: Walter Boyce, a UC Davis veterinary professor and director of the Wildlife Health Center, says "the Southland was born to burn" and both people and plants will rebound from the fires.
11.10.2003 Sacramento Bee--Laboratory for study of fire rising from south state ashes: Fire-damaged areas in Southern California provide a unique opportunity to test ideas about controlling and preventing wildfires, says UC Davis wildlife veterinarian Walter Boyce, who studies bighorn sheep, deer and mountain lions in the San Diego area.
11.2.2003 The Los Angeles Times--Wildlife's Trial by Fire Is Just Beginning: In this Sunday front-page story, researcher Jim Bauer of the UC Davis Wildlife Health Center is the first scientist quoted. Greg McPherson, director of the U.S. Forest Service's Center for Urban Forest Research at UC Davis, says loss of trees to the fires is" like losing one of your lungs."
10.30.2003 San Francisco Chronicle--Fires taking heavy toll on wildlife, domestic animals UC Davis vet school emergency coordinator John Madigan says thousands of horses have been evacuated from fire areas but an unspecified number have died.
