Charles W. McHugh

Former Employee

Fire Spatial Analyst

Rocky Mountain Research Station

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C. Alina Cansler, Sharon M. Hood, J. Morgan Varner, Phillip J. van Mantgem, Michelle C. Agne, Robert A. Andrus, Matthew P. Ayres, Bruce D. Ayres, Jonathan D. Bakker, Michael A. Battaglia, Barbara J. Bentz, Carolyn R. Breece, James Brown, Daniel R. Cluck, Tom Coleman, R. Gregory Corace, W. Wallace Covington, Douglas S. Cram, James Cronan, Joseph E. Crouse, Adrian J. Das, Ryan S. Davis, Darci M. Dickinson, Stephen A. Fitzgerald, Peter Z. Fulé, Lisa M. Ganio, Lindsay M. Grayson, Charles B. Halpern, Jim L. Hanula, Brian J. Harvey, J. Kevin Hiers, David W. Huffman, MaryBeth Keifer, Tara L. Keyser, Leda N. Kobziar, Thomas E. Kolb, Crystal A. Kolden, Karen E. Kopper, Jason R. Kreitler, Jesse K. Kreye, Andrew M. Latimer, Andrew Lerch, Maria J. Lombardero, Virginia McDaniel, Charles W. McHugh, Joel D. McMillin, Jason J. Moghaddas, Joseph J. O’Brien, Daniel D. B. Perrakis, David W. Peterson, Susan J. Prichard, Robert Progar, Kenneth F. Raffa, Elizabeth Reinhardt, Joseph Restaino, John P. Roccaforte, Brendan M. Rogers, Kevin C. Ryan, Hugh D. Safford, Alyson E. Santoro, Timothy M. Shearman, Alice M. Shumate, Carolyn H. Sieg, Sheri L. Smith, Rebecca J. Smith, Nathan L. Stephenson, Mary Stuever, Jens Stevens, Michael T. Stoddard, Walter G. Thies, Nicole M. Vaillant, Shelby A. Weiss, Douglas J. Westlind, Travis J. Woolley, Micah C. Wright. 2020. The Fire and Tree Mortality Database, for empirical modeling of individual tree mortality after fire
Marc-Andre Parisien, Alan Ager, Ana M. Barros, Denyse Dawe, Sandy Erni, Mark A. Finney, Charles W. McHugh, Carol L. Miller, Sean A. Parks, Karin Riley, Karen C. Short, Christopher A. Stockdale, Xianli Wang, Ellen Whitman. 2020. Commentary on the article “Burn probability simulation and subsequent wildland fire activity in Alberta, Canada - Implications for risk assessment and strategic planning” by J. L. Beverly and N. McLoughlin
Faith Ann Heinsch, Charles W. McHugh, Colin C. Hardy. 2016. Fire, Fuel, and Smoke Science Program 2015 Research Accomplishments
Stephane Mangeon, Robert Field, Michael Fromm, Charles W. McHugh, Apostolos Voulgarakis. 2015. Satellite versus ground-based estimates of burned area: A comparison between MODIS based burned area and fire agency reports over North America in 2007
Crystal S. Stonesifer, Matthew P. Thompson, Dave E. Calkin, Charles W. McHugh. 2015. Characterizing large airtanker use in United States fire management
Charles W. McHugh, Stu Hoyt, Brett Fay. 2015. Strategic operations planning - it's not just for wilderness! How the Strategic Operations Planner can help
Jason M. Forthofer, Bret W. Butler, Charles W. McHugh, Mark A. Finney, Larry S. Bradshaw, Richard D. Stratton, Kyle S. Shannon, Natalie S. Wagenbrenner. 2014. A comparison of three approaches for simulating fine-scale surface winds in support of wildland fire management. Part II. An exploratory study of the effect of simulated winds on fire growth simulations
Alan Ager, Michelle A. Day, Charles W. McHugh, Karen C. Short, Julie Gilbertson-Day, Mark A. Finney, Dave E. Calkin. 2014. Wildfire exposure and fuel management on western US national forests
Dave E. Calkin, Crystal S. Stonesifer, Matthew P. Thompson, Charles W. McHugh. 2014. Large airtanker use and outcomes in suppressing wildland fires in the United States
Matthew P. Thompson, David E. Calkin, Jason Herynk, Charles W. McHugh, Karen C. Short. 2012. Airtankers and wildfire management in the US Forest Service: Examining data availability and exploring usage and cost trends
Mark A. Finney, Isaac C. Grenfell, Charles W. McHugh, Robert C. Seli, Diane L. Trethewey, Richard D. Stratton, Stuart Brittain. 2011. A method for ensemble wildland fire simulation
Mark A. Finney, Charles W. McHugh, Isaac C. Grenfell, Karin Riley, Karen C. Short. 2011. A simulation of probabilistic wildfire risk components for the continental United States
David E. Calkin, Alan Ager, Matthew P. Thompson, Mark A. Finney, Danny C. Lee, Thomas M. Quigley, Charles W. McHugh, Karin Riley, Julie Gilbertson-Day. 2011. A comparative risk assessment framework for wildland fire management: the 2010 cohesive strategy science report
Charles W. McHugh, Mark A. Finney, Larry S. Bradshaw. 2010. An assessment of climate and fire danger rating in the Northern Rockies during the 1910 fire season
Faith Ann Heinsch, Charles W. McHugh. 2010. Climate change and fire danger rating in the Northern Rockies
Mark A. Finney, Charles W. McHugh, Isaac Grenfell, Karin Riley. 2010. Continental-scale simulation of burn probabilities, flame lengths, and fire size distribution for the United States
Mark A. Finney, Isaac C. Grenfell, Charles W. McHugh. 2009. Modeling containment of large wildfires using generalized linear mixed-model analysis
Merrill R. Kaufmann, Gregory H. Aplet, Michael G. Babler, William L. Baker, Barbara J. Bentz, Michael G. Harrington, Brad C. Hawkes, Laurie Huckaby, Michael J. Jenkins, Daniel M. Kashian, Robert E. Keane, Dominik Kulakowski, Ward McCaughey, Charles W. McHugh, Jose Negron, John B. Popp, William H. Romme, Wayne Shepperd, Frederick W. Smith, Elaine K. Sutherland, Daniel Tinker, Thomas T. Veblen. 2008. The status of our scientific understanding of lodgepole pine and mountain pine beetles - a focus on forest ecology and fire behavior
Mark A. Finney, Rob C. Seli, Charles W. McHugh, Alan A. Ager, Bernhard Bahro, James K. Agee. 2008. Simulation of long-term landscape-level fuel treatment effects on large wildfires
Robert C. Seli, Alan A. Ager, Nicholas L. Crookston, Mark A. Finney, Berni Bahro, James K. Agee, Charles W. McHugh. 2008. Incorporating landscape fuel treatment modeling into the Forest Vegetation Simulator
Alan Ager, Andrew J. McMahan, James J. Barrett, Charles W. McHugh. 2007. A simulation study of thinning and fuel treatments on a wildland-urban interface in eastern Oregon, USA
Sharon M. Hood, Charles W. McHugh, Kevin C. Ryan, Elizabeth Reinhardt, Sheri L. Smith. 2007. Evaluation of a post-fire tree mortality model for western US conifers
Charles W. McHugh. 2006. Considerations in the use of models available for fuel treatment analysis
Mark A. Finney, Rob C. Seli, Charles W. McHugh, Alan A. Ager, Berni Bahro, James K. Agee. 2006. Simulation of Long-Term Landscape-Level Fuel Treatment Effects on Large Wildfires
Mark A. Finney, Roberta Bartlette, Larry S. Bradshaw, Kelly Close, Brandon M. Collins, Paul Gleason, Wei Min Hao, Paul Langowski, John McGinely, Charles W. McHugh, Erik Martinson, Phillip N. Omi, Wayne Shepperd, Karl Zeller. 2003. Fire behavior, fuel treatments, and fire suppression on the Hayman Fire
Mark A. Finney, Charles W. McHugh, Roberta Bartlette, Kelly Close, Paul Langowski. 2003. Fire behavior, fuel treatments, and fire suppression on the Hayman Fire - Part 2: Description and interpretations of fire behavior
Charles W. McHugh, Mark A. Finney. 2003. Fire behavior, fuel treatments, and fire suppression on the Hayman Fire - Part 4: Relation of roads to burn severity
Charles W. McHugh, Paul Gleason. 2003. Fire behavior, fuel treatments, and fire suppression on the Hayman Fire - Part 5: Fire suppression activities
Peter Z. Fule, Charles W. McHugh, Thomas A. Heinlein, W. Wallace Covington. 2001. Potential fire behavior is reduced following forest restoration treatments