The fire environment--innovations, management, and policy; conference proceedings

Abstract

The International Association of Wildland Fire sponsored the second Fire Behavior and Fuels conference in Destin, Florida. The conference theme was "Fire Environment--Innovations, Management, and Policy." Over 450 attendees participated in presentations on the latest innovations in wildland fire management, examples of successful and maybe not so successful management practices, current and potentially future wildland fire policy and recent advances in wildland fire science. Special sessions focused on smoke management, wildland urban interface, fire induced tree mortality, and live fuels. Integrated into this conference was the Joint Fire Science Program Annual Primary Investigator meeting where cutting edge JFSP sponsored research was presented.

Titles contained within The fire environment--innovations, management, and policy; conference proceedings

• Introduction-2nd Fire Behavior and Fuels Conference: The fire environment-innovations, management, and policy
• Wildfires, weather, and productivity
• Technical background of the FireLine Assessment MEthod (FLAME)
• Influence of slope on fire spread rate
• Modification of VanWagner's canopy fire propagation model
• Ignition and flame travel on realistic building and landscape objects in changing environments
• Uncertainty quantification in Rothermel's Model using an efficient sampling method
• Differences in simulated fire spread over Askervein Hill using two advanced wind models and a traditional uniform wind field
• Influence of radiation absorption by environmental water vapor on radiation transfer in wildland fires
• Fire behavior modeling to assess net benefits of forest treatments on fire hazard mitigation and bioenergy production in Northeastern California
• Combining turbulent kinetic energy and Haines Index predictions for fire-weather assessments
• Moisture dynamics in masticated fuelbeds: A preliminary analysis
• Relationships between prefire composition, fire impact, and postfire legacies in the boreal forest of Eastern Canada
• Role of buoyancy and heat release in fire modeling, propagation, and instability
• Fuel dynamics and fire behaviour in Australian mallee and heath vegetation
• Bucklands Crossing firefighter burnover-a case study of fire behaviour and firefighter safety implications
• Mathematical modeling of forest fire initiation in three dimensional setting
• Preliminary results of fire behavior in maquis fuels under varying weather and slope conditions in turkey
• Fine scale vegetation classification and fuel load mapping for prescribed burning
• Presettlement fire regime and vegetation mapping in Southeastern Coastal Plain forest ecosystems
• Fuels management on the National Forests in Mississippi after Hurricane Katrina
• Calculating accurate aboveground dry weight biomass of herbaceous vegetation in the Great Plains: A comparison of three calculations to determine the least resource intensive and most accurate method
• Testing the modeled effectiveness of an operational fuel reduction treatment in a small Western Montana interface landscape using two spatial scales
• Role of fire in restoration of a ponderosa pine forest, Washington
• Comparing the effectiveness of thinning and prescribed fire for modifying structure in dry coniferous forests
• FireSmart®-ForestWise: Managing Wildlife and Wildfire Risk in the Wildland/Urban Interface-a Canadian Case Study
• Use of historic images as a tool for estimating haze levels-natural visibility and the role of fire
• Smoke monitoring network on 2006 Northern California fires
• Visualization and modeling of smoke transport over landscape scales
• Validation of BlueSky Smoke Prediction System using surface and satellite observations during major wildland fire events in Northern California
• Development and demonstration of smoke plume, fire emissions, and pre- and postprescribed fire fuel models on North Carolina Coastal Plain forest ecosystems
• Internet VSMOKE: A user-oriented system for smoke management
• Cascading disaster models in postburn flash flood
• Assessing the effectiveness of seeding and fertilization treatments for reducing erosion potential following severe wildfires
• Fire and fire surrogate treatments in mixed-oak forests: Effects on herbaceous layer vegetation
• Soil physical property response to prescribed fire in two young longleaf pine stands on the Western Gulf Coastal Plain
• Fire behavior sensor package remote trigger design
• Fire history and age structure analysis in the Sherburne National Wildlife Refuge: Establishing reference conditions in a remnant oak savanna woodland
• Application of ground-based LIDAR for fine-scale forest fuel modeling
• Innovations in fuels management: Demonstrating success in treating a serious threat of wildfire in Northern Minnesota
• New technology in postfire rehab
• Verification of the WFAS Lightning Efficiency Map
• Integrating climatic and fuels information into National Fire Risk Decision Support Tools
• Educating and engaging the business sector in reducing wildfire property losses
• Efficacy of the California Bureau of Land Management Community Assistance and Hazardous Fuels Programs
• Firefighters United for Safety, Ethics, and Ecology (FUSEE): Torchbearers for a new fire management paradigm
• Critical elements in the development and implementation of Community Wildfire Protection Plans (CWPPs)
• San Diego Declaration on Climate Change and Fire Management: Ramifications for fuels management
• Analysis of the risk management decisionmaking processes and the decision support systems in the wildland fire agencies

Citation

Butler, Bret W.; Cook, Wayne. 2007. The fire environment--innovations, management, and policy; conference proceedings. Proceedings RMRS-P-46CD. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 662 p. CD-ROM.