Colin C. Hardy, PhD

Treesearch Publications

• Duncan C. Lutes, Colin C. Hardy. 2021. Lodgepole pine bole wood density and decay rate 1, 11, and 22 years after felling in central Montana, United States
• Colin C. Hardy, Janice L. Peterson. 2018. Forward
• John Hall, Paul F. Steblein, Colin C. Hardy. 2018. Living with wildland fire in America: Building new bridges between policy, science and management
• Andrew T. Hudak, Patrick Freeborn, Sarah A. Lewis, Sharon M. Hood, Helen Y. Smith, Colin C. Hardy, Robert J. Kremens, Bret W. Butler, Casey Teske, Bob G. Tissell, Lloyd P. Queen, Bryce L. Nordgren, Benjamin C. Bright, Penelope Morgan, Philip J. Riggan, Lee Macholz, Leigh B. Lentile, James P. Riddering, Edward E. Mathews. 2018. The Cooney Ridge Fire Experiment: An early operation to relate pre-, active, and post-fire field and remotely sensed measurements
• Faith Heinsch, Charles W. McHugh, Colin C. Hardy. 2016. Fire, Fuel, and Smoke Science Program 2015 Research Accomplishments
• David L. Peterson, Colin C. Hardy. 2016. The RxCADRE study: A new approach to interdisciplinary fire research
• Faith Heinsch, Robin J. Innes, Colin C. Hardy, Kristine M. Lee. 2015. Fire, Fuel, and Smoke Program: 2014 Research Accomplishments
• Faith Heinsch, Robin J. Innes, Colin C. Hardy, Kristine M. Lee. 2014. Fire, Fuel, and Smoke Science Program: 2013 Research accomplishments
• Russell T. Graham, Terrie B. Jain, Kathy L. Graham, Bob J. Denner, Colin C. Hardy. 2014. One-hundred years of wildfire research: A legacy of the Priest River, Deception Creek, and Boise Basin Experimental Forests of Idaho [Chapter 21]
• William T. Sommers, Rachel A. Loehman, Colin C. Hardy. 2014. Wildland fire emissions, carbon, and climate: Science overview and knowledge needs
• Duncan C. Lutes, Colin C. Hardy. 2013. Lodgepole pine bole wood density 1 and 11 years after felling in central Montana
• Diane M. Smith, Colin C. Hardy. 2012. Fire, Fuel, and Smoke Science Program: 2012 Research Accomplishments
• Larry Mason, Germaine White, Gary Morishima, Ernesto Alvarado, Louise Andrew, Fred Clark, Mike Durglo, Jim Durglo, John Eneas, Jim Erickson, Margaret Friedlander, Kathy Hamel, Colin C. Hardy, Tony Harwood, Faline Haven, Everett Isaac, Laurel James, Robert Kenning, Adrian Leighton, Pat Pierre, Carol B. Raish, Bodie Shaw, Steven Smallsalmon, Vernon Stearns, Howard Teasley, Matt Weingart, Spus Wilder. 2012. Listening and learning from traditional knowledge and western science: A dialogue on contemporary challenges of forest health and wildfire
• Jane Kapler K. Smith, Diane Smith, Colin C. Hardy. 2011. 50 years of service: The Missoula Fire Sciences Lab
• Colin C. Hardy, Robert Kremens, Matthew B. Dickinson. 2010. Modern developments for ground-based monitoring of fire behavior and effects
• Kevin C. Ryan, Susan Gallagher, Colin C. Hardy, Diane Smith. 2010. Still hot at 50
• Colin C. Hardy, Charles E. Hardy. 2007. Fire danger rating in the United States of America: An evolution since 1916
• L. Lentile, P. Morgan, Colin C. Hardy, Andrew T. Hudak, R. Means, Roger D. Ottmar, Pete R. Robichaud, Elaine K. Sutherland, J. Szymoniak, F. Way, J. Fites-Kaufman, S. Lewis, E. Mathews, H. Shovik, Kevin C. Ryan. 2007. Value and challenges of conducting rapid response research on wildland fires
• Leigh Lentile, Penny Morgan, Colin C. Hardy, Andrew T. Hudak, Robert Means, Roger D. Ottmar, Pete R. Robichaud, Elaine K. Sutherland, Frederick Way, Sarah A. Lewis. 2007. Lessons learned from Rapid Response Research on wildland fires
• Colin C. Hardy, Helen Y. Smith, Ward McCaughey. 2006. The Use of Silviculture and Prescribed Fire to Manage Stand Structure and Fuel Profiles in a Multi-aged Lodgepole Pine Forest
• Kirsten Schmidt, James Menakis, Colin C. Hardy, Wendall J. Hann, David L. Bunnell. 2002. Development of coarse-scale spatial data for wildland fire and fuel management
• Colin C. Hardy, Roger D. Ottmar, Janice L Peterson, John E. Core, Paula Seamon. 2001. Smoke management guide for prescribed and wildland fire: 2001 edition.
• Colin C. Hardy, Robert E. Keane, Michael G. Harrington. 2000. Associated riparian communities
• Colin C. Hardy, Robert E. Keane, Catherine A. Stewart. 2000. Ecosystem-based management in the lodgepole pine zone
• Janie Canton-Thompson, Jane Kapler Smith, Greg G. Jones, Perry J. Brown, Stephen F. Arno, Orville L. Daniels, Dale A. Burk, Colin C. Hardy, Dave Silvieus, Kristi D. Pflug, Bruce Winhorst, Brooke Thompson, Yvette K. Ortega, Kevin S. McKelvey, Tom Thompson, Dean E. Pearson, Cathy Stewart, Janet Sullivan. 1999. ECO-Report - 1999 Symposium highlights five years of learning
• Colin C. Hardy. 1999. On the move: Recent happenings in vegetation research
• Robert Burgan, Colin C. Hardy, Donald Ohlen, Gene Fosnight, Robert Treder. 1999. Ground sample data for the Conterminous U.S. Land Cover Characteristics Database
• David V. Sandberg, Colin C. Hardy, Roger D. Ottmar, J.A. Kendall Snell, Ann Acheson, Janice L. Peterson, Paula Seamon, Peter Lahm, Dale Wade. 1999. National strategic plan: modeling and data systems for wildland fire and air quality.
• Colin C. Hardy, Elizabeth Reinhardt. 1998. Modeling effects of prescribed fire on wildlife habitat: Stand structure, snag recruitment and coarse woody debris
• Colin C. Hardy. 1998. Guidelines for estimating volume, biomass, and smoke production for piled slash.
• Colin C. Hardy, Ward McCaughey. 1997. Restoring fire in lodgepole pine forests of the Intermountain west
• Jane Kapler Smith, Janet Sullivan, Clinton E. Carlson, L. Jack Lyon, J. Tewksbury, S. Hejl, T. Martin, Stephen F. Arno, Ward McCaughey, Cathy Stewart, Colin C. Hardy, J. Greg Jones, Madelyn Kempf, Leslie Weldon. 1996. ECO-Report - Halfway home
• Colin C. Hardy, Stephen F. Arno. 1996. The use of fire in forest restoration
• Colin C. Hardy, Jon C. Regelbrugge, David R. Teesdale. 1996. Smoke emissions from prescribed burning of southern California chaparral.
• Wayne Einfeld, Darold E. Ward, Colin C. Hardy. 1991. Effects of fire behavior on prescribed fire smoke characteristics: A case study [Chapter 50]
• Roger D. Ottmar, Colin C. Hardy, Robert E. Vihnanek. 1990. Stereo photo series for quantifying forest residues in the Douglas-Fir-Hemlock type of the Willamette National Forest.

Data and Tools

• Tool
  

  Landscape Modeling & Climate Change

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/rmrs/products/dataandtools/landscape-modeling-climate-change

• Project
  

  TCEF Grid - Monitoring wildland fuels

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/firelab/projects/tcef

• University of Montana, Missoula, B.S., Resource Conservation, 1977
• University of Washington, M.S., Forest Resource Management, 1983
• University of Montana, Missoula, Ph.D., Forestry, 2005