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RMRS-P-41: Fuels Management-How to Measure Success: Conference
Proceedings
Andrews, Patricia L.; Butler, Bret W., comps. 2006. Fuels Management-How to Measure Success: Conference Proceedings. 28-30 March 2006; Portland, OR. Proceedings RMRS-P-41. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 809 p.
Fuels management programs are designed to reduce risks to communities and to improve and maintain ecosystem health. The International Association of Wildland Fire initiated the 1st Fire Behavior and Fuels Conference to address development, implementation, and evaluation of these programs. The focus was on how to measure success. Over 500 participants from several countries convened in Portland, Oregon, to discuss approaches to fuels management and to learn from 158 oral and poster presentations.
Keywords: fuels management, fire behavior, modeling, risk assessment, fuel characterization, mapping, fuel treatment, prescribed fire, fire ecology, fire effects, economics, biomass utilization, fire weather
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Contents
PDF File Size: 175 KForeword-1st Fire Behavior and Fuels Conference:Fuels Management How to Measure Success
Patricia L. Andrews
PDF File Size: 120 KFuels Management
Be a Change Agent and Change the Strategy
Jerry Williams
PDF File Size: 140 KU.S. Federal Fuel Management Programs: Reducing Risk to Communities and Increasing Ecosystem Resilience and Sustainability
Tim Sexton
PDF File Size: 170 KCanadian Wildland Fire Strategy: A Vision for an Innovative and Integrated Approach to Managing the Risks
Canadian Wildland Fire Strategy Project Management Team
PDF File Size: 180 KFuel Management-An Integral Part of Fire Management: Trans-Tasman Perspective
Jim Gould
PDF File Size: 310 KForest Fuels Management in Europe
Gavriil Xanthopoulos, David Caballero, Miguel Galante, Daniel Alexandrian, Eric Rigolot, and Raffaella Marzano
PDF File Size: 1.8 MBWildland Fire Use - Challenges Associated With Program Management Across Multiple Ownerships and Land Use Situations
Thomas Zimmerman, Michael Frary, Shelly Crook, Brett Fay, Patricia Koppenol, and Richard Lasko
PDF File Size: 370 KU.S. Policy Response to the Fuels Management Problem: An Analysis of the Public Debate About the Healthy Forests Initiative and the Healthy Forests Restoration Act
Jayne Fingerman Johnson, David N. Bengston, David P. Fan, and Kristen C. Nelson
PDF File Size: 370 KInfluences on USFS District Rangers' Decision to Authorize Wildland Fire Use
Martha A. Williamson
PDF File Size: 380 KModeling, Risk Assessment and Decision Support
Considerations in the Use of Models Available for Fuel Treatment Analysis
Charles W. McHugh
PDF File Size: 1 MBA Computational Method for Optimizing Fuel Treatment Locations
Mark A. Finney
PDF File Size: 2.1 MBSimulation of Long-Term Landscape-Level Fuel Treatment Effects on Large Wildfires
Mark A. Finney, Rob C. Seli, Charles W. McHugh, Alan A. Ager, Berni Bahro, and James K. Agee
PDF File Size: 1.5 MBA Wildfire Risk Modeling System for Evaluating Landscape Fuel Treatment Strategies
Alan Ager, Mark Finney, and Andrew McMahan
PDF File Size: 580 KAutomating the Fireshed Assessment Process with ArcGIS
Alan Ager, Bernhard Bahro, and Klaus Barber
PDF File Size: 210 KAn Analytical Framework for Quantifying Wildland Fire Risk and Fuel Treatment Benefit
Joe H. Scott
PDF File Size: 500 KStrategic Placement of Treatments (SPOTS): Maximizing the Effectiveness of Fuel and Vegetation Treatments on Problem Fire Behavior and Effects
Diane M. Gercke and Susan A. Stewart
PDF File Size: 310 KLandfire: Landscape Fire and Resource Management Planning Tools Project
Kevin C. Ryan, Kristine M. Lee, Matthew G. Rollins, Zhiliang Zhu, James Smith, and Darren Johnson
PDF File Size: 220 KApplying Fire Spread Simulators in New Zealand and Australia: Results from an International Seminar
Tonja Opperman, Jim Gould, Mark Finney, and Cordy Tymstra
PDF File Size: 1 MBAn Overview of FlamMap Fire Modeling Capabilities
Mark A. Finney
PDF File Size: 900 KUsing Landscape-Based Decision Rules to Prioritize Locations of Fuel Treatments in the Boreal Mixedwood of Western Canada
Marc-André Parisien, Dave R. Junor, and Victor G. Kafka
PDF File Size: 1.5 MBFuel Characterization and Mapping
Fuels Products of the LANDFIRE Project
Matthew C. Reeves, Jay R. Kost, and Kevin C. Ryan
PDF File Size: 645 KFUEL3-D: A Spatially Explicit Fractal Fuel Distribution Model
Russell A. Parsons
PDF File Size: 1.5 MBFuelCalc: A Method for Estimating Fuel Characteristics
Elizabeth Reinhardt, Duncan Lutes, and Joe Scott
PDF File Size: 485 KAccuracy and Precision of Two Indirect Methods for Estimating Canopy Fuels
Abran Steele-Feldman, Elizabeth Reinhardt, and Russell A. Parsons
PDF File Size: 370 KMapping Fuels on the Okanogan and Wenatchee National Forests
Crystal L. Raymond, Lara-Karena B. Kellogg, and Donald McKenzie
PDF File Size: 1.1 MBFuel Type Classification and Fuel Loading in Central Interior, Korea: Uiseong-Gun
Myoung Soo Won, Kyo Sang Koo, Myung Bo Lee, and Si Young Lee
PDF File Size: 1.9 MBUnderstanding Ozark Forest Litter Variability Through a Synthesis of Accumulation Rates and Fire Events
Michael C. Stambaugh, Richard P. Guyette, Keith W. Grabner, and Jeremy Kolaks
PDF File Size: 445 KEstimating Fuel Bed Loadings in Masticated Areas
Sharon Hood and Ros Wu
PDF File Size: 375 KVariability in Loading of Mechanically Masticated Fuel Beds in Northern California and Southwestern Oregon
Jeffrey M. Kane, Eric E. Knapp, and J. Morgan Varner
PDF File Size: 1.2 MBCreating a Fuels Baseline and Establishing Fire Frequency Relationships to Develop a Landscape Management Strategy at the Savannah River Site
Bernard R. Parresol, Dan Shea, and Roger Ottmar
PDF File Size: 1.4 MBVariation in Surface and Crown Fire Hazard With Stand Age in Managed Coastal Western Hemlock Zone Forests in Southwestern British Columbia
Michael C. Feller and Stefanie L. Pollock
PDF File Size: 530 KEvaluation of a Dynamic Load Transfer Function Using Grassland Curing Data
Patricia L. Andrews, Stuart A.J. Anderson, Wendy R. Anderson
PDF File Size: 540 KFoliar Moisture Contents of North American Conifers
Christopher R. Keyes
PDF File Size: 210 KMapping the Relationship Between Wildfire and Poverty
Kathy Lynn and Wendy Gerlitz
PDF File Size: 2.5 MBFuel Treatment and Prescribed Fire
Fire Severity and Intensity During Spring Burning in Natural and Masticated Mixed Shrub Woodlands
Tim Bradley, Jennifer Gibson, and Windy Bunn
PDF File Size: 410 KAssessing Mitigation of Wildfire Severity by Fuel Treatments - An Example From the Coastal Plain of Mississippi
Erik J. Martinson and Philip N. Omi
PDF File Size: 1.1 MBA Fuel Treatment Reduces Potential Fire Severity and Increases Suppression Efficiency in a Sierran Mixed Conifer Forest
Jason J. Moghaddas
PDF File Size: 1 MBThe Use of Silviculture and Prescribed Fire to Manage Stand Structure and Fuel Profiles in a Multi-aged Lodgepole Pine Forest
Colin C. Hardy, Helen Y. Smith, and Ward McCaughey
PDF File Size: 1.6 MBEffectiveness of Prescribed Fire as a Fuel Treatment in Californian Coniferous Forests
Nicole M. Vaillant, JoAnn Fites-Kaufman, Scott L. Stephens
PDF File Size: 345 KChanges in Downed Wood and Forest Structure After Prescribed Fire in Ponderosa Pine Forests
Victoria Saab, Lisa Bate, John Lehmkuhl, Brett Dickson, Scott Story, Stephanie Jentsch, and William Block
PDF File Size: 285 KBiomass Consumption During Prescribed Fires in Big Sagebrush Ecosystems
Clinton S. Wright and Susan J. Prichard
PDF File Size: 425 KThe Lick Creek Demonstration - Forest Renewal Through Partial Harvest and Fire
Benjamin Zamora and Melinda Martin
PDF File Size: 1.7 MBResponse of Fuelbed Characteristics to Restoration Treatments in Pinyon-Juniper-Encroached Shrublands on the Shivwits Plateau, Arizona
Helen Y. Smith, Sharon Hood, Matt Brooks, JR Matchett, and Curt Deuser
PDF File Size: 310 KEffect of a Spaced Thinning in Mature Lodgepole Pine on Within-Stand Microclimate and Fine Fuel Moisture Content
R. J. Whitehead, G. L. Russo, B. C. Hawkes, S. W. Taylor, B. N. Brown, H. J. Barclay, and R. A. Benton
PDF File Size: 1 MBPredicting Ground Fire Ignition Potential in Aspen Communities
S. G. Otway, E. W. Bork, K. R. Anderson, and M. E. Alexander
PDF File Size: 330 KFire Ecology and Fire Effects
Integrating Fuel Treatments into Comprehensive Ecosystem Management
Kevin Hyde, Greg Jones, Robin Silverstein, Keith Stockmann, and Dan Loeffler
PDF File Size: 645 KComparison of the Sensitivity of Landscape-Fire-Succession Models to Variation in Terrain, Fuel Pattern, Climate and Weather
Geoffrey J. Cary, Robert E. Keane, Robert H. Gardner, Sandra Lavorel, Mike D. Flannigan, Ian D. Davies, Chao Li, James M. Lenihan, T. Scott Rupp, and Florent Mouillot
PDF File Size: 510 KAssessing Ecological Departure from Reference Conditions with the Fire Regime Condition Class (FRCC) Mapping Tool
Stephen W. Barrett, Thomas DeMeo, Jeffrey L. Jones, J.D. Zeiler, and Lee C. Hutter
PDF File Size: 530 KPredicting Post-Fire Severity Effects in Coast Redwood Forests Using FARSITE
Hugh Scanlon and Yana Valachovic
PDF File Size: 325 KMeasuring Ecological Effects of Prescribed Fire Using Birds as Indicators of Forest Conditions
Nathaniel E. Seavy, John D. Alexander
PDF File Size: 570 KMonitoring Changes in Soil Quality from Post-fire Logging in the Inland Northwest
Deborah Page-Dumroese, Martin Jurgensen, Ann Abbott, Tom Rice, Joanne Tirocke, Sue Farley, and Sharon DeHart
PDF File Size: 265 KThe Relation Between Forest Structure and Soil Burn Severity
Theresa B. Jain, Russell T. Graham, and David S. Pilliod
PDF File Size: 830 KEconomics and Biomass Utilization
Design and Objectives of FTM-West Model
Peter J. Ince and Henry Spelter
PDF File Size: 520 KFTM-West Model Results for Selected Fuel Treatment Scenarios
Andrew D. Kramp and Peter J. Ince
PDF File Size: 845 KEstimating Woody Biomass Supply From Thinning Treatments to Reduce Fire Hazard in the U.S. West
Kenneth E. Skog and R. James Barbour
PDF File Size: 665 KBiomass Utilization Modeling on the Bitterroot National Forest
Robin P. Silverstein, Dan Loeffler, J. Greg Jones, Dave E. Calkin, Hans R. Zuuring, and Martin Twer
PDF File Size: 625 KCommunication and Collaboration
A Collaborative Approach to Community Wildfire Hazard Reduction
Marc Titus and Jennifer Hinderman
PDF File Size: 1.4 MBOrganizational Characteristics that Contribute to Success in Engaging the Public to Accomplish Fuels Management at the Wilderness Non-Wilderness Interface
Katie Knotek and Alan E. Watson
PDF File Size: 260 KCommunicating the Wildland Fire Message: Influences on Knowledge and Attitude Change in Two Case Studies
Eric Toman and Bruce Shindler
PDF File Size: 325 KReduction of Potential Fire Behavior in Wildland-urban Interface Communities in Southern California: A Collaborative Approach
Christopher A. Dicus and Michael E. Scott
PDF File Size: 1 MBFire Management in the Inter Galatic Interface or 30 Years of Fire Management at Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge/Kennedy Space Center, Florida
Frederic W. Adrian
PDF File Size: 450 KMeasuring Success in Your Fuels Program: From the Report Card to Valuable Learning
Paula Nasiatka and David Christenson
PDF File Size: 165 KFire Weather
Predicting Fire Season Severity in the Pacific Northwest
Paul Werth
PDF File Size: 2.6 MBEmploying Numerical Weather Models to Enhance Fire Weather and Fire Behavior Predictions
Joseph J. Charney and Lesley A. Fusina
PDF File Size: 2.8 MBWindWizard: A New Tool for Fire Management Decision Support
Bret W. Butler, Mark Finney, Larry Bradshaw, Jason Forthofer, Chuck McHugh, Rick Stratton, and Dan Jimenez
PDF File Size: 1.6 MBAppendix: Presentations for which papers were not submitted for these proceedings
PDF File Size: 140 KAuthor Index
PDF File Size: 70 K
Title: RMRS-P-41:
Fuels Management-How to Measure Success: Conference Proceedings
Electronic Publish Date: September 12, 2006
Last Update: September
26, 2006