Session 7 |
| | Fuels and Fire |
| | Chair: David R. Weise, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station, Riverside, CA
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| 1:30 PM | 7.1 | Burning Characteristics of Live California Chaparral and Utah Leaf Samples  
Thomas H. Fletcher, Brigham Young Univ., Provo, UT; and B. M. Pickett, S. G. Smith, and D. R. Weise |
| 1:45 PM | 7.2 | Ignition of Mulch by Firebrands in Wildland/Urban Interface (WUI) Fires
Samuel L. Manzello, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD; and J. R. Shields, T. G. Cleary, and J. C. Yang |
| 2:00 PM | 7.3 | Evaluation of the Nelson dead fuel moisture model in a forecast environment
J. D. Carlson, Oklahoma State Univ., Stillwater, OK; and L. S. Bradshaw, R. M. Nelson, and R. Jabrzemski |
| 2:15 PM | 7.4 | Modeling the probability of sustained flaming in Canadian fuel types: predictive value of fire weather index components compared with observations of site weather and fuel moisture conditions
J. L. Beverly, Canadian Forest Service, Edmonton, AB, Canada; and B. M. Wotton |
| 2:30 PM | 7.5 | Stand specific litter moisture content calibrations for the Canadian Fine Fuel Moisture Code
B. M. Wotton, Canadian Forest Service, Sault St. Marie, ON, Canada; and J. L. Beverly |
| 2:45 PM | 7.6 | Remote Sensing Vegetation Recovery after Forest Fires using Energy Balance Algorithm
Junming Wang, New Mexico State Univ., Las Cruces, NM; and T. W. Sammis, C. A. Meier, L. J. Simmons, D. R. Miller, and D. Bathke |