Proceedings of the 2002 fire conference: managing fire and fuels in the remaining wildlands and open spaces of the Southwestern United States

Abstract

Many issues confront scientists, land managers, policymakers, and the public who deal with or are affected by management of fire and fuels across the southwestern United States (Utah, Colorado, Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, and California). The 2002 Fire Conference was convened to tackle these concerns. It began with a plenary session addressing the central problems of fire and fuels management in the Southwest. Concurrent sessions with over 100 oral presentations covered a wide range of topics, including fire ecology, fire behavior, fire history, fire prevention, fire education, restoration and rehabilitation, air quality, wildlife-fire interactions, fire planning, watershed responses to fire, invasive species responses to fire, National Environmental Policy Act and other regulations, and vegetation-fire interactions. More than 50 posters displayed in an afternoon session rounded out the program. The 39 papers and 17 extended abstracts included in this volume serve as a reference for the management of fire and fuels concerns in the southwestern United States.

Titles contained within Proceedings of the 2002 fire conference: managing fire and fuels in the remaining wildlands and open spaces of the Southwestern United States

• Equipping tomorrow's fire manager
• The role of nongovernmental organizations in fire education, fuels reduction, and forest restoration: a call for collaboration
• The homeowner view of thinning methods for fire hazard reduction: more positive than many think
• Prescribed Fire Education at Oklahoma State University: Training Our Future Pyros
• Small-diameter timber alchemy: can utilization pay the way toward fire-resistant forests
• Estimating forest fuels in the Southwest using forest inventory data
• The maintenance of key biodiversity attributes through ecosystem restoration operations
• Fuel management strategies in 60-year-old douglas-fir/ponderosa pine stands in the Squamish Forest district, British Columbia
• A comparison of visual and quantitative changes from rotational prescribed burning in old-growth stands of southwestern Ponderosa pine
• Survivorship of raked and unraked trees through prescribed fires in conifer forests in northeastern California
• The effects of prescribed fire and ungulate herbivory and 7 years postburn in the upland bitterbrush (Purshia tridentata) communities of Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado
• Aerial mulching techniques-trough fire
• Pre- and postfire distribution of soil water repellency in a steep chaparral watershed
• Effects of three mulch treatments on initial postfire erosion in north-central Arizona
• The effects of fire on soil hydrologic properties and sediment fluxes in chaparral steeplands, southern California
• Geographic variation in mixed-conifer forest fire regimes in California
• Response of selected plants to fire on white sands missile range, New Mexico
• A neutral model of low-severity fire regimes
• A comparison of postburn woodpecker foraging use of white fir (Abies concolor) and Jeffrey Pine (Pinus jeffreyi)
• Developing a multiscale fire treatment strategy for species habitat management
• Short-term effects of wildfires on fishes in the southwestern United States, 2002: management implications
• Spatial characteristics of fire severity in relation to fire growth in a Rocky Mountain subalpine forest
• Madrean pine-oak forest in Arizona: past dynamics, present problems
• National environmental policy act disclosure of air quality impacts for prescribed fire projects in national forests in the Pacific Southwest Region
• Fire management over large landscapes: a hierarchical approach
• Communication and implementation of GIS data in fire management: a case study
• Community participation in fire management planning: The Trinity county fire safe council's fire plan
• Spatial analysis of fuel treatment options for chaparral on the Angeles national forest
• The importance of considering external influences during presuppression wildfire planning
• Reconstructing fire history of lodgepole pine on Chagoopa Plateau, Sequoia National Park, California
• Relative impact of weather vs. fuels on fire regimes in coastal California
• Fuel loadings in forests, woodlands, and savannas of the Madrean province
• Poster Session- Extended Abstracts
• Effects of fire and mowing on expansion of reestablished black-tailed prairie dog colonies in Chihuahuan Desert grassland
• Effects of prescribed fire on recruitment of Juniperus and Opuntia in a semiarid grassland watershed

Citation

Narog, Marcia G., tech. coord. 2008. Proceedings of the 2002 fire conference: managing fire and fuels in the remaining wildlands and open spaces of the Southwestern United States. Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-GTR-189, Albany, CA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station. 363 p