wind and fire program

Fire and wind are blind to property lines! On July 4th, 1999, a massive wind storm leveled over a million acres in Northeast Minnesota . This event created an unprecedented fire risk to life, property, and natural resources. Within twelve months after the blowdown, management actions, including salvage logging and prescribed burning, were implemented to reduce wildfire risk. To assess management actions, fire effects, and forest succession, intensive and extensive research and monitoring occurred prior to, during, and after these management actions. The intent of this symposium is to share these research and monitoring findings with managers and decision makers to provide the necessary information for facilitating responsive and adaptive management within fire/timber/recreation (including wilderness) programs. Of particular relevance for this symposium is the value of developing inter-agency, cross-ownership, landscape-level strategies to manage fire and fuel loads. Based on the findings from research and monitoring of forest fire fuels management, the action outcome from the symposium is to develop a revised strategy to manage fire and fuels on forest land surrounding and including the Superior National Forest.

• Help forest land managers understand the ecological impacts of prescribed burning, mechanical and wildfire, long and short term.

• Provide forest land managers with tools to better implement a fire/fuels program.

• Provide a framework to develop public education curriculum on fire and fuels strategy.

Sponsors : USFS Superior National Forest and UMN Sustainable Forests Education Cooperative

*The Future of Fire and Wind in Northern Minnesota Forests:* *Lessons learned from the 1999 Blowdown* Workshop - February 18, 2009 University of Minnesota - Cloquet Forestry Center , Cloquet , MN . Fire and wind are blind to property lines! On July 4th, 1999, a massive wind storm leveled over a million acres in Northeast Minnesota . This event created an unprecedented fire risk to life, property, and natural resources. Within twelve months after the blowdown, management actions, including salvage logging and prescribed burning, were implemented to reduce wildfire risk. To assess management actions, fire effects, and forest succession, intensive and extensive research and monitoring occurred prior to, during, and after these management actions. The intent of this symposium is to share these research and monitoring findings with managers and decision makers to provide the necessary information for facilitating responsive and adaptive management within fire/timber/recreation (including wilderness) programs. Of particular relevance for this symposium is the value of developing inter-agency, cross-ownership, landscape-level strategies to manage fire and fuel loads. Based on the findings from research and monitoring of forest fire fuels management, the action outcome from the symposium is to develop a revised strategy to manage fire and fuels on forest land surrounding and including the Superior National Forest. *Symposium objectives:* • Help forest land managers understand the effectiveness of various fuels treatments while maintaining or protecting resource values. • Help forest land managers understand the ecological impacts of prescribed burning, mechanical and wildfire, long and short term. • Provide forest land managers with tools to better implement a fire/fuels program. • Provide a framework to develop public education curriculum on fire and fuels strategy. Sponsors : USFS Superior National Forest and UMN Sustainable Forests Education Cooperative
*Title*	*Speaker*
Introduction	Dennis Neitzke. Superior National Forest
Fire in northern Minnesota forests; The Cavity Lake and Ham Lake Wildfires	Lee Freilich. University of Minnesota
Evaluating fire effects of Prescribed Burning on blowdown fuels and Evaluating regeneration on the Cavity Lake Fire.	Roy Rich University of Minnesota
Post-blowdown salvage logging impacts on fuel loads and fire severity: preliminary results from the Boundary Waters Blowdown and Ham Lake Fire.	Laura Dunn, UMN Forest Resource Dept Doug Shinneman, The Nature Conservancy & USFS Northern Research Station
Burn Severity in Ham Lake and Cavity Lake Fires	Jess Clark, Remote Sensing Applications Center
The Effects of salvage logging on blow down forests and vegetative responses.	Alan Haney University of Wisconsin , Stevens Point -Retired.
Fire Effects Monitoring of Prescribed Burns in Quetico Provincial Park	Lisa Solomon, Quetico Provincial Park
Fire Effects Monitoring of Prescribed Burns and the Cavity and Ham Lake Wildfires	Bruce Anderson Superior National Forest
Influence of the Forest Canopy on Total and Methyl Mercury Deposition in the Boreal Forest	Trent Wickman Superior National Forest
Simulated interactions between spruce budworm and fire: Comparing the past with the future	Brian Sturdevant, USFA Northern Research Station
Economic & Ecological Recommendations from Biomass Test Harvests on the SNF.	Don Arnosti. Institute for Agriculture & Trade Policy
Responses of sub-boreal beetles to a severe wind-disturbance event and silvicultural activities in northeastern Minnesota	Kamal Gahndi. University of Georgia .

The Future of Fire and Wind in Northern Minnesota Forests:

Lessons learned from the 1999 Blowdown

Workshop - February 18, 2009

University of Minnesota - Cloquet Forestry Center , Cloquet , MN .