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General Technical Report

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

Author: Narog, Marcia G., technical coordinator

Date: 2008

Source: Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-GTR-189, Albany, CA: Pacific Southwest Research Station, Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture. 363 p

Station ID: GTR-PSW-189

Description: 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.

Key Words: fire behavior, fire ecology, vegetation treatment, watershed response, wildfire, wildlife response

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Front Matter and Table of Contents

Front Matter 368 KB

Session A: Fire Prevention and Education

Equipping tomorrow's fire managers 119 KB
Christopher A. Dicus

The role of nongovernmental organizations in fire education, fuels reduction, and forest restoration: a call for collaboration 48 KB
Timothy Ingalsbee, Daniel Henry, Oshana Catranides, and Todd Schulke

The homeowner view of thinning methods for fire hazard reduction: more positive than many think 136 KB
Sarah McCaffrey

Prescribed fire education at Oklahoma State University: training our future pyros 117 KB
John R. Weir

Session B: Fuel and Vegetation Treatment and Management

Small-diameter timber alchemy: can utilization pay the way toward fire-resistant forests? 230 KB
Jeremy S. Fried, R. Jamie Barbour, Roger D. Fight, Glenn Christensen, and Guy Pinjuv

Estimating forest fuels in the Southwest using forest inventory data 397 KB
Krista M. Gebert, Ervin G. Schuster, Sharon Woudenberg, and Renee O'Brien

The maintenance of key biodiversity attributes through ecosystem restoration operations 172 KB
Robert W. Gray and Bruce A. Blackwell

Fuel-management strategies in 60-year-old Douglas-fir/Ponderosa Pine stands in the Squamish forest district, British Columbia 360 KB
Robert W. Gray and Bruce A. Blackwell

A comparison of visual and quantitative changes from rotational prescribed burning in old-growth stands of southwestern Ponderosa Pine 2.6 MB
Sally M. Haase and Stephen S. Sackett

Survivorship of raked and unraked trees through prescribed fires in conifer forests in northeastern California 531 KB
William F. Laudenslayer, Jr., George N. Steger, and Jonathan Arnold

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 295 KB
Kelly Nesvacil and Charles E. Olmsted

Session C: Watershed Response and Rehaviliation

Aerial mulching techniques—trough fire 299 KB
Robert Faust

Pre- and postfire distribution of soil water repellency in a steep chaparral watershed 822 KB
Ken R. Hubbert, Peter M. Wohlgemuth, and Haiganoush K. Preisler

Effects of three mulch treatments on initial postfire erosion in north-central Arizona 290 KB
George H. Riechers, Jan L. Beyers, Peter R. Robichaud, Karen Jennings, Erin Kreutz, and Jeff Moll

The effects of fire on soil hydrologic properties and sediment fluxes in chaparral steeplands, southern California 306 KB
Peter M. Wohlgemuth and Ken R. Hubbert

Session D: Fire Ecology I

Geographic variation in mixed-conifer forest fire regimes in California 275 KB
R. Matthew Beaty and Alan H. Taylor

Response of selected plants to fire on white sands missile range, New Mexico 272 KB
Kenneth G. Boykin

A neutral model of low-severity fire regimes 420 KB
Don McKenzie and Amy E. Hessl

Session E: Wildlife-Fire Interactions

A comparison of postburn woodpecker foraging use of white fir (Abies concolor) and Jeffrey Pine (Pinus jeffreyi) 276 KB
Kerry L. Farris and Steve Zack

Developing a multiscale fire treatment strategy for species habitat management 287 KB
Steven P. Norman, Danny C. Lee, and David A. Tallmon

Short-term effects of wildfires on fishes in the southwestern United States, 2002: management implications 273 KB
John N. Rinne and Codey D. Carter

Session G: Fire Ecology II

Spatial characteristics of fire severity in relation to fire growth in a Rocky Mountain subalpine forest 350 KB
Calvin A. Farris, Ellis Q. Margolis, and John A. Kupfer

Madrean pine-oak forest in Arizona: past dynamics, present problems 348 KB
Andrew M. Barton

Session H: Air Quality and Smoke Management

National environmental policy act disclosure of air quality impacts for prescribed fire projects in national forests in the Pacific Southwest Region 269 KB
Suraj Ahuja and Laurie Perrot

Session I: Planning II

Fire management over large landscapes: a hierarchical approach 273 KB
Kenneth G. Boykin

Communication and implementation of GIS data in fire management: a case study 329 KB
Kenneth G. Boykin, Douglas I. Boykin, Rusty Stovall, and Ryan Whitaker

Community participation in fire management planning: The Trinity county fire safe council's fire plan 379 KB
Yvonne Everett

Forest Service fire suppression expenditures in the southwest 314 KB
Krista M. Gebert and Ervin G. Schuster

Spatial analysis of fuel treatment options for chaparral on the Angeles national forest 466 KB
Greg Jones, Jim Chew, Robin Silverstein, Chris Stalling, Janet Sullivan, Judy Troutwine, David Weise, and Don Garwood

The importance of considering external influences during presuppression wildfire planning 285 KB
Marc R. Wiitala and Andrew E. Wilson

Session J: Fire History and Restoration

Reconstructing fire history of lodgepole pine on Chagoopa Plateau, Sequoia National Park, California 341 KB
Anthony C. Caprio

Relative impact of weather vs. fuels on fire regimes in coastal California 364 KB
Jon E. Keeley

Session K: Fire Behavior

Fuel loadings in forests, woodlands, and savannas of the Madrean province 283 KB
Peter F. Ffolliott, Gerald J. Gottfried, and Leonard F. DeBano

One-year postfire mortality of large trees in low- and moderate-severity portions of the star fire in the Sierra Nevada 314 KB
Jo Ann Fites-Kaufman, David Weixelman, and Amy Merrill

Estimating forest fuels in the southwest using forest inventory data 323 KB
Krista M. Gebert, Ervin G. Schuster, Sharon Woudenberg, and Renee O'Brien

The application of FARSITE for assessing a mechanical fuel treatment in the eastern Sierra Nevada 354 KB
Erin K. Noonan and Paul T. Tueller

Modeling transitions in shrubland fire behavior using crown fire modeling techniques 255 KB
Joe H. Scott

Assessing the effectiveness of landscape fuel treatments on fire growth and behavior in southern Utah 395 KB
Rick D. Stratton

Session L: Fire Ecology III

The effects of fire on serpentine vegetation and implications for management 236 KB
Hugh D. Safford and Susan Harrison

Poster Session—Extended Abstracts

Assessment of emergency fire rehabilitation of four fires from the 2000 fire season on the Vale, Oregon, BLM district: review of the density sampling materials and methods 206 KB
Jack D. Alexander III, Jean Findley, and Brenda K. Kury

Growth of regreen, seeded for erosion control, in the Manter fire area, southern Sierra Nevada 201 KB
Jan L. Beyers

Classification of wildland fire effects in silviculturally treated vs. untreated forest stands of New Mexico and Arizona 202 KB
Douglas S. Cram, Terrell T. Baker, Jon C. Boren, and Carl Edminster

The potential for smoke to ventilate from wildland fires in the United States 157 KB
Sue A. Ferguson, Steven McKay, David Nagel, Trent Piepho, Miriam Rorig,, Casey Anderson, and Jeanne Hoadley

Effects of fire and mowing on expansion of reestablished black-tailed prairie dog colonies in Chihuahuan desert grassland 231 KB
Paulette L. Ford, Mark C. Andersen, Ed L. Fredrickson, Joe Truett, and Gary W. Roemer

Data collection and fire modeling determine potential for the use of Plateau® to establish fuelbreaks in cheatgrass-dominated rangelands 105 KB
Brenda K. Kury, Jack D. Alexander III, and Jennifer Vollmer

Debris flow occurrence in the immediate postfire and interfire periods and associated effects on channel aggradation in the Oregon coast Range 207 KB
Christine L. May and Danny C. Lee

LANDFIRE: mapping fire and fuels characteristics for the conterminous United States 157 KB
James P. Menakis, Robert E. Keane, and Zhi-Liang Zhu

Relationships between fire frequency and environmental variables at multiple spatial scales 205 KB
Carol Miller, Brett Davis, and Katharine Gray

Effects of summer prescribed fires on taxa richness and abundance of avian populations and associated vegetation changes 201 KB
Ken Mix, William P. Kuvlesky, Jr., and D. Lynn Drawe

Chamise (Adenostoma fasciculatum) leaf strategies 242 KB
Marcia G. Narog

Stereo photo series for quantifying natural fuels in the Americas 197 KB
Roger D. Ottmar, Robert E. Vihnanek, and Clinton S. Wright

Prescribed fire effects on California's oaks 463 KB
Timothy E. Paysen

Effects of prescribed fire on recruitment of Juniperus and Opuntia in a semiarid grassland watershed 229 KB
Burton K. Pendleton, Rosemary L. Pendleton, and Carleton S. White

Monitoring land cover change in California using multitemporal remote sensing data 215 KB
John Rogan, Doug Stow, Janet Franklin, Jennifer Miller, Lisa Levien, and Chris Fischer

Predicting patterns of alien plant invasions in areas of fire disturbance in Yosemite National Park 202 KB
Emma Underwood, Robert Klinger, and Peggy Moore

Fuel consumption during prescribed fires in big sage ecosystems 265 KB
Clinton S. Wright and Roger D. Ottmar

Citation

Narog, Marcia G. 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.