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General Technical Report

Title: The Biswell symposium: fire issues and solutions in urban interface and wildland ecosystems; February 15-17, 1994; Walnut Creek, California

Author: Weise, David R.; Martin, Robert E., technical coordinators

Date: 1995

Source: Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-GTR-158. Albany, CA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station; 199 p

Station ID: GTR-PSW-158

Description: These proceedings summarize the results of a symposium designed to address current issues about wildfire and prescribed fire in both the wildland-urban interface and in wildlands. Thirty-eight invited oral papers and 23 poster papers describing the issues and state-of-the-art solutions to technical, biological, and social challenges currently facing land and fire managers were presented at The Biswell Symposium held February 15-17, 1994, in Walnut Creek, California.

Key Words: community response, ecosystem management, fire ecology, fire management, fuel management, prescribed burning

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Front Matter and Introduction

Front Matter 100 KB

Introduction and acknowledgments 15 KB

PLENARY SESSION—ISSUES

The Oakland-Berkeley Hills fire of 1991 19 KB
P. Lamont Ewell

Dr. Biswell’s influence on the development of prescribed burning in California 25 KB
Jan W. van Wagtendonk

“What do we do now, Ollie?” 24 KB
Robert L. Irwin

Fire history of the local wildland-urban interface 7 KB
Neil R. Honeycutt

PANEL DISCUSSION: Prescribed Fire: Why Aren’t We Doing More?

Local, state, and national perspectives 37 KB
Donald A. Pierpont, Ken Nehoda, Jerry T. Williams

Institutionalizing fire safety in making land use and development decisions 8 KB
Marie-Annette Johnson and Marc Mullenix

A synopsis of large or disastrous wildland fires 2.9 MB
Robert E. Martin and David B. Sapsis

Cooperative efforts in fuels management 19 KB
Gerald L. Adams

PANEL DISCUSSION: Barriers to Fuel Management

Organizational barriers 10 KB
Kenneth S. Blonski

Legal barriers 9 KB
Anita E. Ruud

Federal disaster assistance programs 9 KB
William J. Patterson

CONCURRENT SESSION I—Wildland Ecosystem Topics

Fire in wildland ecosystems—opening comments 10 KB
Tom Nichols

Interagency wilderness fire management 18 KB
Jim Desmond

Farsite: a fire area simulator for fire managers 16 KB
Mark A. Finney

Funding fuels management in the national park service: costs and benefits 142 KB
Stephen J. Botti

Ecosystem management issues 9 KB
Jim Boynton

PANEL DISCUSSION: Prescribed Burning in the 21st Century

PANEL DISCUSSION: Prescribed Burning in the 21st Century 51 KB
Jerry Hurley Ishmael Messer Stephen J. Botti Jay Perkins L. Dean Clark

CONCURRENT SESSION II—Urban Interface Topics

Use of class a foams on structures and wildlands 18 KB
Paul Schlobohm

Structure ignition assessment model (SIAM) 216 KB
Jack D. Cohen

Strategies for and barriers to public adoption of fire safe behavior 29 KB
Ronald W. Hodgson

Neighborhood organization activities: evacuation drills, clusters, and fire safety awareness 48 KB
Dick White

Conflicts between natural resources and structural protection 18 KB
Stephen Bakken

PANEL DISCUSSION: Regional Approaches to Urban Interface Problems

Moderator’s comments 9 KB
Neil R. Honeycutt

The East Bay vegetation management consortium: a subregional approach to resource management and planning 9 KB
Tony Acosta

East bay fire chiefs’ consortium 9 KB
Michael Bradley

The bay area wildfire forum 15 KB
Todd E. Bruce

Social and environmental issues in developing vegetation and fire management plans 33 KB
Leonard Charles

PLENARY SESSION—Solutions

Working to make the clean air act and prescribed burning compatible 20 KB
Trent Procter

Comprehensive fire prevention legislation enacted by the California legislature in 1992 after the East Bay firestorm 8 KB
Rachel Richman

Florida’s solution to liability issues 33 KB
Dale Wade and James Brenner

The role of fire in ecosystem management 16 KB
Jerry T. Williams

Structural wildland intermix 29 KB
Ronny J. Coleman

A balanced approach: Dr. Biswell’s solution to fire issues in urban interface and wildland ecosystems 15 KB
Carol Rice

POSTER SESSION

Poster Session 598 KB

Citation

Weise, David R.; Martin, Robert E., technical coordinators 1995. The Biswell symposium: fire issues and solutions in urban interface and wildland ecosystems; February 15-17, 1994; Walnut Creek, California Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-GTR-158. Albany, CA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station; 199 p.