Fuels Management-How to Measure Success: Conference Proceedings

Abstract

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.

Titles contained within Fuels Management-How to Measure Success: Conference Proceedings

• 1st Fire Behavior and Fuels Conference: Fuels Management-How to Measure Success
• Be a change agent and change the strategy
• U.S. Federal Fuel Management Programs: Reducing Risk to Communities and Increasing Ecosystem Resilience and Sustainability
• Canadian Wildland Fire Strategy: A vision for an innovative and integrated approach to managing the risks
• Fuel Management-An Integral Part of Fire Management: Trans-Tasman Perspective
• Forest Fuels Management in Europe
• Wildland Fire Use - Challenges Associated With Program Management Across Multiple Ownerships and Land Use Situations
• U.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
• Influences on USFS District Rangers' Decision to Authorize Wildland Fire Use
• Considerations in the use of models available for fuel treatment analysis
• A computational method for optimizing fuel treatment locations
• Simulation of Long-Term Landscape-Level Fuel Treatment Effects on Large Wildfires
• A wildfire risk modeling system for evaluating landscape fuel treatment strategies
• Automating the Fireshed Assessment Process with ArcGIS
• An analytical framework for quantifying wildland fire risk and fuel treatment benefit
• Strategic Placement of Treatments (SPOTS): Maximizing the Effectiveness of Fuel and Vegetation Treatments on Problem Fire Behavior and Effects
• Landfire: Landscape Fire and Resource Management Planning Tools Project
• Applying fire spread simulators in New Zealand and Australia: Results from an international seminar
• An Overview of FlamMap Fire Modeling Capabilities
• Using Landscape-Based Decision Rules to Prioritize Locations of Fuel Treatments in the Boreal Mixedwood of Western Canada
• Fuels Products of the LANDFIRE Project
• FUEL3-D: A Spatially Explicit Fractal Fuel Distribution Model
• FuelCalc: A Method for Estimating Fuel Characteristics
• Accuracy and precision of two indirect methods for estimating canopy fuels
• Mapping Fuels on the Okanogan and Wenatchee National Forests
• Fuel Type Classification and Fuel Loading in Central Interior, Korea: Uiseong-Gun
• Understanding Ozark Forest Litter Variability Through a Synthesis of Accumulation Rates and Fire Events
• Estimating Fuel Bed Loadings in Masticated Areas
• Variability in Loading of Mechanically Masticated Fuel Beds in Northern California and Southwestern Oregon
• Creating a fuels baseline and establishing fire frequency relationships to develop a landscape management strategy at the Savannah River Site
• Variation in Surface and Crown Fire Hazard With Stand Age in Managed Coastal Western Hemlock Zone Forests in Southwestern British Columbia
• Evaluation of a Dynamic Load Transfer Function Using Grassland Curing Data
• Foliar Moisture Contents of North American Conifers
• Mapping the Relationship Between Wildfire and Poverty
• Fire Severity and Intensity During Spring Burning in Natural and Masticated Mixed Shrub Woodlands
• Assessing mitigation of wildfire severity by fuel treatments - An example from the coastal plain of Mississippi
• A fuel treatment reduces potential fire severity and increases suppression efficiency in a Sierran mixed conifer forest
• The Use of Silviculture and Prescribed Fire to Manage Stand Structure and Fuel Profiles in a Multi-aged Lodgepole Pine Forest
• Effectiveness of Prescribed Fire as a Fuel Treatment in Californian Coniferous Forests
• Changes in downed wood and forest structure after prescribed fire in ponderosa pine forests
• Biomass consumption during prescribed fires in big sagebrush ecosystems
• The Lick Creek Demonstration - Forest Renewal Through Partial Harvest and Fire
• Response of Fuelbed Characteristics to Restoration Treatments in Pinyon-Juniper-Encroached Shrublands on the Shivwits Plateau, Arizona
• Effect of a Spaced Thinning in Mature Lodgepole Pine on Within-Stand Microclimate and Fine Fuel Moisture Content
• Predicting Ground Fire Ignition Potential in Aspen Communities
• Integrating Fuel Treatments into Comprehensive Ecosystem Management
• Comparison of the sensitivity of landscape-fire-succession models to variation in terrain, fuel pattern, climate and weather
• Assessing ecological departure from reference conditions with the Fire Regime Condition Class (FRCC) Mapping Tool
• Predicting Post-Fire Severity Effects in Coast Redwood Forests Using FARSITE
• Measuring Ecological Effects of Prescribed Fire Using Birds as Indicators of Forest Conditions
• Monitoring Changes in Soil Quality from Post-fire Logging in the Inland Northwest
• The relation between forest structure and soil burn severity
• Design and objectives of FTM-West model
• FTM-West Model Results for Selected Fuel Treatment Scenarios
• Estimating Woody Biomass Supply From Thinning Treatments to Reduce Fire Hazard in the U.S. West
• Biomass utilization modeling on the Bitterroot National Forest
• A Collaborative Approach to Community Wildfire Hazard Reduction
• Organizational Characteristics that Contribute to Success in Engaging the Public to Accomplish Fuels Management at the Wilderness/Non-Wilderness Interface
• Communicating the wildland fire message: Influences on knowledge and attitude change in two case studies
• Reduction of Potential Fire Behavior in Wildland-urban Interface Communities in Southern California: A Collaborative Approach
• Fire Management in the Inter Galatic Interface or 30 Years of Fire Management at Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge/Kennedy Space Center, Florida
• Measuring Success in Your Fuels Program: From the Report Card to Valuable Learning
• Predicting Fire Season Severity in the Pacific Northwest
• Employing Numerical Weather Models to Enhance Fire Weather and Fire Behavior Predictions
• WindWizard: A New Tool for Fire Management Decision Support

Citation

Andrews, Patricia L.; Butler, Bret W. 2006. Fuels Management-How to Measure Success: Conference Proceedings. Proceedings RMRS-P-41. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 809 p.