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Sunday, 16 November 2003
	9:30 AM-1:30 PM, Sunday Short Course Registration
	5:00 PM-8:00 PM, Sunday Congress Registration
	5:00 PM-8:00 PM, Sunday Ice Breaker Reception
Monday, 17 November 2003
	9:00 AM-10:45 AM, Monday Plenary Session 1 Opening Plenary Session (Joint between the 2nd International Wildland Fire Ecology and Fire Management Congress and the 5th Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology)
9:00 AM PL1.1 Welcome and Call to Order   Ronald E. Masters, Tall Timbers Research Station, Tallahassee, FL 9:10 AM PL1.2 Opening Remarks from the Florida State Forester   Michael Long, Florida Division of Forestry, Tallahassee, FL 9:25 AM PL1.3 Welcome from AFE Representative   Jan Van Wagtendonk, AFE, El Portal, CA 9:35 AM PL1.4 Welcome from TNC Representative   Jeff Hardesty, The Nature Conservatory's Global Fire Initiative, Gainesville, FL 9:45 AM PL1.5 Welcome from AMS Representative   Elbert W. (Joe) Friday, American Meteorological Society, Washington, DC 9:55 AM PL1.6 Fire Ecology of the Recent Anthropocene (Keynote Address)   Johann G. Goldammer, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry and Global Fire Monitoring Center, Freiburg, Germany 10:35 AM Coffee Break
	11:00 AM-5:00 PM, Monday Session 1A Fire and Fuels Management: Part 1 (TRACK I)
Chair: Frederic W. Adrian, US Fish & Wildlife Service, Titusville, FL
11:00 AM 1A.1 Landscape level fire modeling   Charles W. McHugh, USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Missoula, MT; and M. A. Finney and D. A. Stephen 11:30 AM 1A.2 Quantifying canopy fuels in conifer forests   Elizabeth Reinhardt, USDA Forest Service, Missoula, MT; and J. H. Scott and R. E. Keane 12:00 PM Lunch Break   1:30 PM 1A.3 Fuel loading in the Central Hardwoods   Jeremy J. Kolaks, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO; and B. E. Cutter, E. F. Loewenstein, K. W. Grabner, G. Hartman, and J. M. Kabrick 2:00 PM 1A.4 Comparative analysis of three silvicultural prescriptions and their effect on crown fire behavior in Southwestern ponderosa pine   Linda L. Wadleigh, USDA Forest Service, Williams, AZ; and C. W. McHugh 1A.5 Fuel reduction projects in Southwest ponderosa pine forests   Martha E. Schumann, Forest Trust, Santa Fe, NM 2:30 PM 1A.6 Fuel loading and potential fire behavior after selective harvest in coast redwood stands   Christopher A. Dicus, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA 3:00 PM Coffee Break   3:30 PM 1A.7 Fuel composition and consumption in subtropical South Florida slash pine forests   James R. Snyder, USGS, Ochopee, FL; and H. Belles, S. Koptur, M. S. Ross, and J. Sah 4:00 PM 1A.8 Fuel Characteristic Classification System   Roger D. Ottmar, USDA Forest Service, Seattle, WA; and D. V. Sandberg, S. J. Prichard, and C. L. Riccardi 4:30 PM 1A.9 Fire Potential Rating for Wildland Fuelbeds   David V. Sandberg, USDA Forest Service, Corvallis, OR
	11:00 AM-5:30 PM, Monday Session 1B Fire Effects on Soils/Watershed (TRACK II)
Chair: Daniel G. Neary, USDA Forest Service, Flagstaff, AZ
11:00 AM 1B.1 Performance of high temperature heat flux plates and soil moisture probes during controlled surface fires   W. J. Massman, USDA Forest Service, Fort Collins, CO; and J. M. Frank, S. M. Massman, and W. D. Shepperd 11:30 AM 1B.2 Effects of Prescribed Fire Intervals on Carbon and Nitrogen in Forest Soils of the Mogollon Rim, Arizona   Daniel G. Neary, USDA Forest Service, Flagstaff, AZ; and S. T. Overby and S. M. Haase 12:00 PM Lunch Break   1:30 PM 1B.3 Changes in nutrients and biomass immediately after a low-intensity prescribed fire in an uneven-aged loblolly pine stand   Jennifer J. Hooper, University of Arkansas, Monticello, AR; and H. O. Liechty and M. G. Shelton 2:00 PM 1B.4 A 12-year post-fire assessment of soil conditions of the Dudefire in central Arizona   Alvin Leroy Medina, USDA Forest Service, Flagstaff, AZ 2:30 PM 1B.5 Consequences and correlates of fire in wetlands   Gordon A. Fox, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL; and K. Hum, D. Brownlie, and M. Folk 3:00 PM Coffee Break   3:30 PM 1B.6 Erosion after wildfires: what managers need to know   Peter R. Robichaud, USDA Forest Service, Moscow, ID 4:00 PM 1B.7 Post-wildfire Watershed Flood Responses   Daniel G. Neary, USDA Forest Service, Flagstaff, AZ; and G. J. Gottfried and P. F. Ffolliott 4:30 PM 1B.8 Hillslope erosion following the Williams Fire on the San Dimas Experimental Forest, southern California   Peter M. Wohlgemuth, USDA Forest Service, Riverside, CA 5:00 PM 1B.9 Runoff and erosion on a semi-arid grassland after a wildfire   Ginger B. Paige, USDA-ARS, Tucson, AZ; and J. J. Stone, D. P. Guertin, R. McGee, and H. Blumenfeld
	11:00 AM-5:30 PM, Monday Session 1C Ecosystem Restoration: Part 1 (TRACK III)
Chair: MaryBeth Keifer, National Park Service, Three Rivers, CA
11:00 AM 1C.1 The relative influences of prescribed burning and spatial and temporal variability on species composition in grasslands on Santa Cruz Island, California   Robert C. Klinger, University of California, Davis, CA 11:30 AM 1C.2 Second entry prescribed fires in Ponderosa pine and bear clover forests   Monica S. Buhler, Yosemite National Park, Yosemite, CA; and K. J. Paintner 12:00 PM Lunch Break   1:30 PM 1C.3 Positive effects of prescribed fire on understory vegetation in mixed-conifer forests of the southern Sierra Nevada, CA (USA)   Karen Webster, National Park Service, Three Rivers, CA; and M. Keifer and R. Wills 2:00 PM 1C.4 Fire, forest change, and restoration at Grand Canyon   Peter Z. Fulé, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ; and J. E. Crouse, T. A. Heinlein, and W. W. Covington 2:30 PM 1C.5 A 12-year post-fire assessment of riparian habitat conditions of the Dudefire in central Arizona   Alvin Leroy Medina, USDA Forest Service, Flagstaff, AZ 3:00 PM Coffee Break   3:30 PM 1C.6 Responses of long-unburned scrub on the Merritt Island/Cape Canaveral barrier island complex to cutting and burning   Paul A. Schmalzer, Dynamac Corporation, Kennedy Space Center, FL; and T. E. Foster and F. W. Adrian 4:00 PM 1C.7 Remnant Fire Disturbed Montane Longleaf Pine Forest in West Central Georgia, USA   Robert Carter, Jacksonville State University, Jacksonville, AL; and A. Londo 4:30 PM 1C.8 Restoration and Management of South Florida Pine Rocklands with Fire: Fifty Years of Adaptive Management   Jeff H. Kitchens, Everglades National Park Fire Management, Homestead, FL; and R. A. Panko 5:00 PM 1C.9 Effects of fire season and frequency on the plant community of a restored tallgrass prairie   Thomas B. Bragg, University of Nebraska, Omaha, NE; and N. D. Birks
	11:00 AM-2:00 PM, Monday Session 1D Collaborative Fire Planning (Special Session) (TRACK IV)
Chair: Ayn Shlisky, The Nature Conservancy, Boulder, Colorado
11:00 AM 1D.1 The Role and Effectiveness of Prescribed Fire Councils in Fire Management   Zachary A. Prusak, Brevard County Environmentally Endangered Lands Program, Melbourne, FL 11:30 AM 1D.2 Collaborative partnerships and landscape-scale fire restoration on the Bayou Ranger District in the Interior Highlands of Arkansas, USA   McRee Anderson, The Nature Conservancy, Jasper, AR; and J. Andre, M. Morales, S. Simon, and T. Whitsell 12:00 PM Lunch Break   1D.3 A collaborative scientific framework for restoration of fire-adapted ecosystems of the Jemez Mountains, New Mexico   Patrick D. McCarthy, The Nature Conservancy, Santa Fe, NM; and L. J. Wood 1:30 PM 1D.4 Fire management and restoration plan in the Sierra de Manantlán Biosphere Reserve, México   Enrique J. Jardel P., Universidad de Guadalajara, Autlán, Jalisco, Mexico; and R. Ramírez-Villeda, F. Castillo-Navarro, and O. E. Balcázar M.
	11:00 AM-2:00 PM, Monday Session 1F Fire Policy (TRACK VI)
Chair: G. Thomas Zimmerman, USDA Forest Service, Albuquerque, NM
11:00 AM 1F.1 Federal Wildland Fire Management Policy—Interagency Implementation Direction   Mark Beighley, USDA Forest Service, Washington, DC; and T. Zimmerman 11:30 AM 1F.2 Fuel breaks for wildland fire management: a moat or a drawbridge for ecosystem fire restoration?   Timothy Ingalsbee, Western Fire Ecology Center, Eugene, OR; and R. Fairbanks 12:00 PM Lunch Break   1:30 PM 1F.3 Media coverage of the "Healthy Forests Initiative": an exercise in problem definition   William F. Griswold, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
	11:00 AM-5:30 PM, Monday Joint Session 1G GIS/Remote Sensing: Part 1 (TRACK VII) (Joint between the 2nd International Wildland Fire Ecology and Fire Management Congress and the 5th Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology)
Chairs: Skip Edel, Colorado State Forest Service, Boulder, CO; Dorothy Albright, USDA Foreest Service, McClellan, CA
11:00 AM J1G.1 Using NDVI to determine green-up date for the National Fire Danger Rating System   Paul M. Schlobohm, Bureau of Land Management, Boise, ID; and B. L. Hall and T. J. Brown 11:30 AM J1G.2 Progress towards development of methods for evaluation of spatial fire potential indicators   Jon M. Graham, University of Montana, Missoula, MT; and P. L. Andrews 12:00 PM Lunch Break   1:30 PM J1G.3 Phoenix—the new Forest Service airborne infrared fire detection and mapping system   Paul H. Greenfield, USDA Forest Service, Washington, DC; and W. Smith and D. C. Chamberlain 2:00 PM J1G.4 Operational Detection of Fires in Brazil with EOS, GOES and NOAA Satellites   Alberto W. Setzer, Center for Weather Forecast and Climatic Studies, S.J.Campos, SP, Brazil 2:30 PM J1G.5 Measurement of the time-temperature and emissivity history of the burn scar for remote sensing applications   Robert Kremens, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY; and J. Faulring and C. C. Hardy 3:00 PM Coffee Break   3:30 PM J1G.6 Monitoring wildland fire activity on a national-scale with MODIS imagery   Brad Quayle, USDA Forest Service, Salt Lake City, UT; and K. Lannom, M. Finco, J. Norton, and R. Warnick 4:00 PM J1G.7 Wildfire Risk Data Collection Using Handheld GPS and GIS   Andrew W. Martin, South Alabama Regional Planning Commission, Mobile, AL 4:30 PM J1G.8 Facts and History of NWCG’s Geospatial Task Group   Susan Goodman, Bureau of Land Management, Denver, CO 5:00 PM J1G.9 ICS Fire Mapping Tools—A New Standard in Fire Mapping   John Varner, USDA Forest Service , Rocky Mountain Region, Encampment, WY
	11:00 AM-3:30 PM, Monday Joint Session 2 Fire and Atmosphere Interactions (Joint between the 5th Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology and the 2nd International Wildland Fire Ecology and Fire Management Congress)
Chair: Brian E. Potter, USDA Forest Service, East Lansing, MI
11:00 AM J2.1 Atmospheric Response and Feedback to Smoke Radiative Forcing from Wildland Fires   Yongqiang Liu, USDA Forest Service, Athens, GA 11:15 AM J2.2 Modeling interactions between fire and atmosphere in discrete fuel beds   Rodman R. Linn, LANL, Los Alamos, NM; and J. Winterkamp, C. Edminster, J. Colman, and M. Steinzig 11:30 AM J2.3 Numerical Study of Effects of Atmosphere Temperature Profile on Wildfire Behavior   Chunmei Xia, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and M. Y. Hussaini, P. Cunningham, R. R. Linn, and S. L. Goodrick 11:45 AM J2.4 Simulations of wildfire incidents using coupled atmosphere-fire modeling   Janice L. Coen, NCAR, Boulder, CO 12:00 PM Lunch Break   1:30 PM J2.5 Comparison of 2-D wind fields and simulated wildland fire growth   Karl Zeller, USDA Forest Service, Ft. Collins, CO; and N. Nikolov, J. Snook, M. A. Finney, J. McGinley, and J. M. Forthofer 1:45 PM J2.6 Predicting surface winds in complex terrain for use in fire growth models   Jason M. Forthofer, USDA Forest Service, Missoula, MT; and B. W. Butler, K. S. Shannon, M. A. Finney, L. S. Bradshaw, and R. Stratton 2:00 PM J2.7 Impact of released fuel moisture on atmospheric dynamics   Brian E. Potter, USDA Forest Service, East Lansing, MI 2:15 PM J2.8 Analysis of space/time characteristics of errors in an integrated weather/fire spread simulation   Charles Jones, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA; and P. E. Dennison, F. M. Fujioka, D. R. Weise, and J. W. Benoit 2:30 PM J2.9 Infrared imagery applied for insights into wildland fire dynamics   Janice L. Coen, NCAR, Boulder, CO 2:45 PM J2.10 Mobile Radar Observations of the Big Elk (2002) and Roberts (2003) Fires   Joshua Wurman, Center for Severe Weather Research, Boulder, CO; and S. Weygandt 3:00 PM Coffee Break
	2:00 PM-5:30 PM, Monday Session 2F Social and Economic Aspects of Fire Management: Part I (TRACK VI)
Chair: Armando Gonzalez-Caban, USDA Forest Service, Riverside, CA
2:00 PM 2F.1 Tourist knowledge, attitudes and reactions to fire situations in Florida   Brijesh Thapa, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL; and S. Holland and J. Absher 2:30 PM 2F.2 Situational influences of acceptable wildland fire management actions   Katie C. Kneeshaw, USDA Forest Service, Missoula, MT; and J. J. Vaske, A. D. Bright, and J. D. Absher 3:00 PM Coffee Break   3:30 PM 2F.3 What’s it look like? Public preference for fuels treatments after seeing on-the-ground fire and fire surrogate study treatments   Sarah M. McCaffrey, USDA Forest Service, Evanston, IL; and S. Stephens 4:00 PM 2F.4 Developing a model for impacts of fire on local and regional economies   Karen Lee Abt, US Forest Service, Research Triangle Park, NC; and J. P. Prestemon and T. P. Holmes 4:30 PM 2F.5 The Market Economics of Mechanical Fuel Treatments   Karen L. Abt, USDA Forest Service, Resarch Triangle Park, NC; and J. P. Prestemon, P. Ince, J. Barbour, R. Fight, and R. Rummer 5:00 PM 2F.6 Economic value of improved deer hunting resulting from prescribed burning in southern California   Armando Gonzalez-Caban, USDA Forest Service, Riverside, CA; and J. B. Loomis, D. Griffin, E. Wu, D. McCollum, J. McKeever, and D. Freeman
	3:30 PM-5:30 PM, Monday Session 2D Fire Regime Condition Class (Special Session) (TRACK IV)
Chair: James Menakis, USDA Forest Service, Missoula, MT
3:30 PM 2D.1 Fire Regime Condition Class: Scales and definitions   James Menakis, USDA Forest Service, Missoula, MT; and W. Hann, M. Miller, and D. Bunnell 3:45 PM 2D.2 Implications for fire and fuels management   David Bunnell, USDA Forest Service, Boise, ID 4:00 PM 2D.3 Biodiversity and resource applications: Application of the fire regime condition class process to collaborative multi-scale land management planning in the Boston Mountains, Arkansas   Ayn J. Shlisky, The Nature Conservancy, Boulder, CO; and D. Zollner, J. Andre, and S. Simon 4:15 PM 2D.4 Applications in fire and fuels planning   Tim Sexton, National Park Service, Boise, ID 4:30 PM 2D.5 Methods, dilemmas, and solutions   Wendel Hann, USDA Forest Service, Silver City, NM 4:45 PM Discussion
	3:30 PM-5:30 PM, Monday Joint Session 3E Combustion Modeling: Part 1 (TRACK V) (Joint between the 2nd International Wildland Fire Ecology and Fire Management Congress and the 5th Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology)
Chair: Barbara Bonefeld, USDA Forest Service, McCellan, CA
3:30 PM J3E.1 Core Fire Science Caucus   David V. Sandberg, USDA Forest Service, Corvallis, OR; and C. C. Hardy, D. R. Weise, R. Rehm, and R. R. Linn 4:00 PM J3E.2 A new set of standard fuel models for use with Rothermel's spread model   Joe H. Scott, Systems for Environmental Management, Missoula, MT; and R. Burgan 4:30 PM J3E.3 NEXUS 2.0: not just a spreadsheet anymore   Joe Scott, Systems for Environmental Management, Missoula, MT 5:00 PM J3E.4 “Rabbit Rules”—an application of Stephen Wolfram’s “new kind of science” to fire spread modeling   Gary L. Achtemeier, USDA Forest Service, Athens, GA
	6:00 PM, Monday Formal Poster Viewing and Vendor Reception
	6:00 PM-9:00 PM, Monday Poster Session 1 Wildland Fire Management
P1.1 A preliminary stereo photo guide for estimating canopy bulk density in conifer stands   Joe Scott, Systems for Environmental Management, Missoula, MT; and E. D. Reinhardt and O. E. Helmy   P1.2 Characterizing fuel before and after prescribed fire in an Appalachian hardwood forest on the Cumberland Plateau, Kentucky   Elizabeth Loucks, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY; and M. A. Arthur   P1.3 Predicting effectiveness of Nevada greenstrip fuel breaks: issues of establishment success and scale   Crystal A. Kolden, University of Nevada, Reno, NV   P1.4 Stereo photo series for quantifying natural fuels in the Americas   Roger D. Ottmar, USDA Forest Service, Seattle, WA; and R. E. Vihnanek and C. S. Wright   P1.5 Evaluating opportunities and risks of wildland fuels management   Anne E. Black, Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute, Missoula, MT; and C. Miller and P. Landres   P1.6 Developing management options for fuel reduction in pine flatwoods of the Southeast   Kenneth W. Outcalt, USDA Forest Service, Athens, GA; and D. K. Kennard   P1.7 Prioritizing fuel management activities using watersheds and terrain units   Mo Mislivets, USDA Forest Service, Missoula, MT; and D. Long   P1.8 Wildland Urban Interface Hazard Reduction in Interior Alaska—Challenges, Partnerships and Success   Mary Kwart, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Tok, AK   P1.9 Analysis of fuel type and vegetation structure for fire risk index development   Grazia Pellizzaro, CNR, Sassari, Italy; and C. Cesaraccio, C. Asunis, and C. Caria   P1.10 Monitoring mechanical fuel reduction projects in ponderosa pine forests of Devils Tower National Monument and Mount Rushmore National Memorial   Cody L. Wienk, National Park Service, Hot Springs, SD; and A. D. Thorstenson and K. E. Rehman   P1.11 Potential fuel complexes, fire behavior, and fire management implications resulting from the fires of 2000 on the Bitterroot National Forest, Montana (Formerly paper 2A.7)   Tonja S. Opperman, USDA Forest Service, Bitterroot National Forest, Hamilton, MT; and T. Kelley   P1.12 Adaptive Fire Management, Applied Fire Ecology, and Fire Monitoring on the National Wildlife Refuges in the Southwest U.S. Region 2   Mark Kaib, U.S Fish and Wildlife Service, Albuquerque, NM; and J. Whitney   P1.13 The use of silviculture and prescribed fire to manage multi-aged lodgepole pine forests and reduce fuel loadings at the Tenderfoot Creek Experimental Forest, Montana   Helen Smith, USDA Forest Service, Missoula, MT; and C. C. Hardy and W. McCaughey
	6:00 PM, Monday Poster Session 2 Fire Effects
P2.1 Carabid community after prescribed burning in mediterranean regions   Luisa Ferreira Nunes, Escola Superior Agraria Castelo Branco, Castelo Branco, Portugal   P2.2 Effects of fire and soil conditions on germination and seedling success of diffuse knapweed (Centaurea diffusa) in northern Arizona forests   Barbara Satink Wolfson, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ; and T. E. Kolb, C. Hull Sieg, and K. M. Clancy   P2.3 The relationship of stand structure in burned and unburned areas to dogwood (Cornus florida L.) survival in Great Smoky Mountain National Park   Eric J. Holzmueller, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL; and S. Jose and M. A. Jenkins   P2.4 Fire temperatures and effects on alien and native annual plants in the Mojave Desert   Matthew L. Brooks, USGS, Henderson, NV; and M. Trader   P2.5 Reduction of lichen habitat by wildland fire on the Kanuti National Wildlife Refuge, Alaska   A. Morton, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Anchorage, AK; and L. B. Saperstein   P2.6 The Phenology and Natural Regeneration of Two Native Pine Species in Subtropical Forest Burned Areas of Central Taiwan   Li-Ming Liang, National Chung-Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan; and M. Y. Chen   P2.7 True Mountain Mahogany Sprouting Behavior Following Fire   Li-Ming Liang, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and P. N. Omi   P2.8 Short-term responses in aspen regeneration for wildlife habitat in interior Alaska   Thomas F. Paragi, Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Fairbanks, AK; and D. A. Haggstrom   P2.9 Delayed mortality: saguaro cacti are still dying 10 years after wildfire!   Marcia G. Narog, USDA Forest Service, Riverside, CA; and R. C. Wilson   P2.10 Surface Fires and Stem Mortality: Physical Connections   Anthony S. Bova, USDA Forest Service, Delaware, OH; and M. B. Dickinson   P2.11 Long-term response of two exotic plant species following a wildfire in the Black Hills, South Dakota   Noah Barstatis, USDA Forest Service, Flagstaff, AZ; and C. H. Sieg   P2.12 Fire severity classification: uses and abuses   Theresa B. Jain, USDA Forest Service, Moscow, Idaho, ID; and R. T. Graham   P2.13 The role of fire in tree mortality and regeneration in yellow pine (Pinus pungens, P. rigida, and P. virginiana) communities of Great Smoky Mountains National Park: preliminary results   Virginia L. McDaniel, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Gatlinburg, TN; and N. L. Benzing   P2.14 The role of fire in maintaining Quercus montana and Q. marilandica communities at Kings Mountain National Military Park, South Carolina   Virginia L. McDaniel, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Gatlinburg, TN; and N. L. Benzing   P2.15 Seasonal changes in soil water repellency following wildfire in chaparral steeplands, southern California   Ken R. Hubbert, USDA Forest Service, Riverside, CA; and V. Oriol   P2.16 Using a "fire cage" to test the response of Arabis johnstonii to fire   Jan L. Beyers, USDA Forest Service, Riverside, CA; and M. G. Narog, C. Sclafani, and C. Escobar   P2.17 Pine regeneration following prescribed and wild fires: the role of seed dispersal by animals   Jennifer Briggs, University of Nevada, Reno, NV; and S. B. Vander Wall
	6:00 PM, Monday Poster Session 3 Fire and Landscapes
P3.1 Testing fire history methods: addressing sampling uncertainty   Megan L. Van Horne, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ; and P. Z. Fulé   P3.2 Stand structure after six years: effects of fire exclusion and prescribed fire on ridgetop forest composition and structure   Beth A. Blankenship, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY; and M. A. Arthur   P3.3 Community analysis of fire maintained pitcher plant bogs in the Little River Canyon National Preserve, Alabama, USA   Robert Carter, Jacksonville State University, Jacksonville, AL; and A. Londo   P3.4 Effects of prescribed fire on light and canopy structure in an Appalachian hardwood forest on the Cumberland Plateau, KY   Stephanie Green, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY; and M. A. Arthur and D. L. Loftis   P3.5 The historical role and contemporary uses of fire in southern Appalachian ecosystems   Katherine J. Elliott, Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory, Otto, NC; and J. M. Vose, T. L. Gragson, N. Cooley, T. Alcoze, and S. Oran   P3.6 Dormant-Season Prescription Fires to Reduce Hazardous Fuel Loads on the South Carolina Coastal Plain: a 40+ year Study   Joseph J O'Brien, USDA Forest Service, Athens, GA; and D. Wade   P3.7 Monitoring the Effects of Fire in South Florida Ecosystems: Half a Century of Data   Jeff H. Kitchens, Everglades National Park Fire Management, Homestead, FL; and G. Hernandez and D. Reiner   P3.8 Spatio-Temporal Influences on Fire Behavior and Landscape Pattern on the Methow Ranger District, Washington State   Kori E. Buford, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA; and M. J. Medler   P3.9 The seasonal cycle of wildfire and climate in the western United States   Patrick J. Bartlein, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR; and S. W. Hostetler, S. L. Shafer, J. O. Holman, and A. M. Solomon   P3.10 The effects of prescribed fire on herbaceous species and midstory density at Gulf Islands National Seashore: A Preliminary Evaluation   Lisa Marino McInnis, National Park Service, Tupelo, MS; and A. Ruth   P3.11 Correlates of tree mortality resulting from re-introducing fire to long-unburned longleaf pine forests   J. Kevin Hiers, Eglin Air Force Base, Niceville, FL; and R. D. Ottmar, J. J. O'Brien, J. M. Varner, F. E. Putz, D. Gordon, and S. Ferguson
	6:00 PM, Monday Poster Session 4 Ecosystem Planning and Management
P4.1 Using the probability of burning to plan for wildland fire use   Carol Miller, Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute, Missoula, MT; and B. Davis and A. Black   P4.2 FLorida Risk Assessment System   W. Carter Stone, Florida Division of Forestry, Tallahassee, FL; and J. Brenner, S. McLellan, and J. Karels   P4.3 Florida Risk Assessment Levels of Concern   W. Carter Stone, Florida Division of Forestry, Tallahassee, FL; and S. McLellan   P4.4 Wildland Fire Risk Hazard Value Analysis   Mark Grupé, Yosemite National Park, El Portal, CA; and M. Beasley   P4.5 Southeast Fire Ecology Partnership   Caroline Noble, National Park Service, Tall Timbers Research Station, Tallahassee, FL; and B. Davenport, D. Brownlie, P. Seamon, and R. E. Masters
	6:00 PM, Monday Poster Session 5 Fire Behavior
P5.1 Techniques and sampling strategies for comparing fires of different intensities   D. Kennard, USDA Forest Service, Auburn, AL; and K. Outcalt, D. Jones, and B. Estes   P5.2 Using FOFEM 5.0 to estimate tree mortality, fuel consumption, smoke production and soil heating from wildland fire   Elizabeth D. Reinhardt, USDA Forest Service, Missoula, MT   P5.3 Ignition behavior of live California chaparral leaves   Steven G. Smith, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT; and J. D. Engstrom, J. K. Butler, L. L. Baxter, T. H. Fletcher, and D. R. Weise   P5.4 Use of FVS/FFE in the Duck Creek UT. fuel management demonstration area   Edward E. Mathews, USDA, Missoula, MT   P5.5 Experimental study on fire behavior of live chaparral fuels   Lulu Sun, University of California, Riverside, CA; and X. Zhou, S. Mahalingam, and D. R. Weise   P5.6 Fuels and Fire Behavior Vary by Fuel-Reduction Treatment and Landscape Position   Thomas A. Waldrop, USDA Forest Service, Clemson, SC; and H. H. Mohr and S. Rideout   P5.7 Fuel Moisture Estimation Model for a Deciduous Secondary Forest in Japan—A Comparison of Parameters under the Different Canopy   Koji Tamai, Forestry & Forest Products Research Institute, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan; and Y. Goto   P5.8 Analysis of algorithms for predicting canopy fuel   Katharine L. Gray, Fire Science Lab, Missoula, MT; and E. Reinhardt   P5.9 Evaluating alternative methods for measuring fire intensity   Eric S. Menges, Archbold Biological Station, Lake Placid, FL; and A. L. Wally and C. W. Weekley P5.10 Characterization of smoke produced in controlled caribbean pine fires   Iván J. Sánchez, Cuerpo de Bomberos de la Universidad Simón Bolívar, Caracas, Miranda, Venezuela; and J. Rojas and F. J. Rodríguez   P5.11 BehavePlus fire modeling system, version 2: Overview   Patricia L. Andrews, USDA Forest Service Research, Missoula, MT; and C. D. Bevins   P5.12 Fire intensity in natural and manipulated fuels during spring buring in mixed shrub woodlands   Tim Bradley, National Park Service, Whiskeytown, CA; and J. Gibson and W. Bunn   P5.13 Modeling post-frontal combustion in the FARSITE fire area simulator   Mark A. Finney, USDA Forest Service, Missoula, MT; and R. C. Seli and P. L. Andrews   P5.14 The Fire Research And Management Exchange System (FRAMES) and National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII): working together to build a foundation in support of wildland fire information and technology transfer   Jennifer Gaines, USGS, Denver, CO; and G. Gollberg   P5.15 Development and use of a 'Rapid Assessment Plot' to monitor thinning and Wildland Fire Use   Kara J. Paintner, Yosemite National Park, Yosemite, CA; and M. S. Buhler and D. Buckley   P5.16 Characterization of flame radiant heat fluxes in shrubland fires   Miguel G. Cruz, University of Montana, Missoula, MT; and B. W. Butler and D. X. Viegas   P5.17 The Susceptibility of Forested Stands to Extreme Fire Behavior; an analysis in the northwest United States   Paul Fieldhouse, Stevensville Ranger Station, Stevensville, MT; and J. Dickinson
	6:00 PM, Monday Poster Session 6 Social/Economic/Political Aspects of Fire Management
P6.1 The Southern Center for Wildland-Urban Interface Research and Information   L. Annie Hermansen, USDA Forest Service, Gainesville, FL   P6.2 Instructing tomorrow’s practitioners today: prescribed fire training in university natural resource programs   Mark Melvin, Joseph W. Jones Ecological Research Center, Newton, GA; and K. McIntyre, D. Brownlie, F. Cole, and M. Wimberly   P6.3 The 'Role of Fire in Alaska' curriculum   Karen A. Murphy, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Anchorage, AK; and E. Long
	6:00 PM, Monday Poster Session 7 GIS/Remote Sensing
P7.1 A Coupled Model Approach For Assessing Fire Hazard at Point Reyes National Seashore: FlamMap and GIS   Erin K. Noonan, USDA Forest Service, Nevada City, CA   P7.2 Fuel Model Stratification in Glacier National Park using Satellite Imagery and ground based Inventories   Caroline Lansing Noble, National Park Service, Tallahassee, FL; and J. van Wagtendonk   P7.3 Recent validation studies of the GOES Wildfire Automated Biomass Burning Algorithm (WF_ABBA) in North and South America   Joleen M. Feltz, CIMSS/Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and M. Moreau, E. M. Prins, K. McClaid-Cook, and I. F. Brown   P7.4 Compilation and Applications of Landsat-Based Historical Fire Atlases: Two Examples   Stephen M. Howard, SAIC and USGS, Sioux Falls, SD; and R. A. McKinley   P7.5 GOES Wildfire ABBA applications in the Western Hemisphere   Christopher C. Schmidt, CIMSS/University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and E. M. Prins   P7.6 Characterizing Post-fire Vegetation Conditions and Trends Using Imaging Spectroscopy   Susan Goodman, Bureau of Land Management, Denver, CO; and R. Kokaly, A. G. McAdams, L. Morath, R. Root, B. Rockwell, and M. McGann   P7.7 Factors affecting vegetation cover mapping for Landfire   James Vogelmann, SAIC and USGS, Sioux Falls, SD; and C. Huang, B. Tolk, and Z. Zhu   P7.8 The hazard mapping system (HMS)—a multiplatform remote sensing approach to fire and smoke detection   Mark G. Ruminski, NOAA/NESDIS, Camp Springs, MD; and J. Simko, J. Kibler, D. McNamara, and T. Kasheta   P7.9 Burn Severity Assessment using Differenced Normalized Burn Ratio and Composite Burn Index   Mark Grupé, Yosemite National Park, El Portal, CA; and K. Paintner and M. Buhler
Tuesday, 18 November 2003
	8:00 AM-12:00 PM, Tuesday Session 2A FIRE AND FUELS MANAGEMENT: PART 2 (TRACK I)
Chair: Steve Miller, St. Johns River Water Management District, Pomona, FL
8:00 AM 2A.1 Development and application of fire behavior and fire effects models for the Southern Utah Fuel Management Demonstration Project   Donald G. Long, USDA Forest Service, Missoula, MT; and K. C. Ryan, R. Stratton, E. Mathews, J. Scott, and M. Miller 8:30 AM 2A.2 Understory fuel load and community changes associated with varying pinyon-juniper dominance and elevation   Alicia L. Reiner, University of Nevada, Reno, NV; and R. J. Tausch, T. Brown, and R. Walker 9:00 AM 2A.3 A Century of Fire and Land Management in the Southern Sierra Nevada   Thomas P. Holmes, USDA Forest Service, Research Triangle Park, NC; and A. Westerling 9:30 AM 2A.4 Long-term surface fuel accumulation in burned and unburned mixed-conifer forests of the central and southern Sierra Nevada, CA (USA)   MaryBeth Keifer, National Park Service, Three Rivers, CA; and J. van Wagtendonk 10:00 AM Coffee Break   10:30 AM 2A.5 Inventory and classification of wildland fire effects in silviculturally treated vs. untreated forest stands of New Mexico and Arizona   Douglas S. Cram, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM; and T. T. Baker, J. Boren, and C. Edminster 11:00 AM 2A.6 Report on the use of thinning and prescribed fire to conrol fuels and wildfire threat in young Douglas-fir/Ponderosa Pine plantations   Robert W. Gray, R. W. Gray Consulting, Ltd., Chilliwack, BC, Canada 11:30 AM 2A.7 Paper move to Poster Session 1, new paper number P1.11
	8:00 AM-5:00 PM, Tuesday Session 2B Fire Effects on Flora: Part 1 (TRACK II)
Chair: Sue Grace, U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Lacombe, LA
8:00 AM 2B.1 Stem Mortality in Surface Fires. Part I, Tissue Response to Elevated Temperatures   Matthew B. Dickinson, USDA Forest Service, Delaware, OH 8:30 AM 2B.2 Stem mortality in surface fires. Part II, Experimental methods for characterizing the thermal response of tree stems to heating by fires   D. M. Jimenez, USDA Forest Service, Missoula, MT; and B. W. Butler and J. Reardon 9:00 AM 2B.3 Stem Mortality in Surface Fires. Part III, Linking Stem Heating with Tissue Response for Planning Prescribed Burns   Joshua L. Jones, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah; and B. W. Webb 9:30 AM 2B.4 Fuel characteristics and fire behavior predictions in native and old-field pinelands in the Red Hills Region, southwest Georgia   Kevin M. Robertson, Tall Timbers Research Station, Tallahassee, FL; and T. E. Ostertag 10:00 AM Coffee Break   10:30 AM 2B.5 Long-Term Seasonal Burning at the St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge, North Florida: Changes in the Sandhill Plots After 23 Years   Jeff S. Glitzenstein, Tall Timbers Research Station, Tallahassee, FL; and D. Streng and W. Platt 11:00 AM 2B.6 Fine fuel characteristics: differences among grass species and significance for prescribe fire management in longleaf pine forests   Sharon M. Hermann, Auburn University, Auburn, AL 11:30 AM 2B.7 The effect of season of fire on the recovery of Florida scrub   Tammy E. Foster, Dynamac Corporation, Kennedy Space Center, FL; and P. A. Schmalzer 12:00 PM Lunch Break   1:30 PM 2B.8 Prescribed fire effects in the Ozarks of Missouri: the Chilton Creek project 1996–2001   George W. Hartman, Missouri Department of Conservation, Columbia, MO; and B. Heumann 2:00 PM 2B.9 Twenty Five Years of Vegetation Development since the Baxter Fire of 1977   Erin D. Small, University of Maine, Orono, ME; and J. S. Wilson and A. J. Kimball 2:30 PM 2B.10 Fire in wetland habitats: A 4-year evaluation in Maryland   Conception Flores, University of Maryland Eastern Shore, USGS, Princess Anne, MD; and D. L. Birch 3:00 PM Coffee Break   3:30 PM 2B.11 Vegetation responses to fire created edges in a Douglas-fir/hardwood forest   Jacob J. Hanson, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI; and J. D. Stuart 4:00 PM 2B.12 Vegetation recovery in the Biscuit Fire, Siskiyou National Forest, Oregon   Diane E. White, Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest, Medford, OR; and T. Atzet and P. A. Martinez 2B.13 Postfire changes in understory composition in singleaf pinyon-juniper and Jeffrey pine alliances in the San Bernardino Mountains, California   Mark Borchert, USDA Forest Sevice, Ojai, CA; and D. Kopp, M. Neel, and S. Eliason 4:30 PM 2B.14 Fire Ecology of the Mountain Pine, Pinus harwegii   Dante Arturo Rodríguez Trejo, Universidad Autónoma Chapingo, Chapingo, Edo. de México, Mexico
	8:00 AM-10:30 AM, Tuesday Session 2C Ecosystem Restoration: Part 2 (TRACK III)
Chair: Christie Neill, USDA Forest Service, McClellan, CA
8:00 AM 2C.1 Effects of fire intensity on vegetative composition in Piedmont loblolly-shortleaf pine communities: Preliminary results of the National Fire and Fire Surrogate Study   Sandra Rideout, USDA Forest Service, Clemson, SC; and R. J. Phillips and T. A. Waldrop 8:30 AM 2C.2 Plant Community Response to Prescribed Fire and Thinning in the Southeast Missouri Ozarks   Erin R. McMurry, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO; and R. M. Muzika, E. F. Loewenstein, K. W. Grabner, and G. Hartman 9:00 AM 2C.3 Monitoring fuel consumption and mortality from prescribed burning in old-growth ponderosa pine stands in eastern Oregon   Clinton S. Wright, USDA Forest Service, Seattle, WA; and N. L. Troyer and R. E. Vihnanek 9:30 AM 2C.4 Management of the endemic Rio Bravo Pine Savanna ecosystem, Belize, Central America   Darrell Novelo, Programme for Belize, Belize 10:00 AM Coffee Break
	8:00 AM-12:00 PM, Tuesday Joint Session 6E Combustion Modeling: Part 2 (Track V) (Joint between the 2nd International Wildland Fire Ecology and Fire Management Congress and the 5th Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology)
Chairs: Patricia L. Andrews, USDA Forest Service Research, Missoula, MT; Jolie Pollet, USDI Bureau of Land Management, Salt Lake City, UT
8:00 AM J6E.1 Fire spread around a forest clearing site in the Brazilian Amazonia   João A. Carvalho Jr., Universidade Estadual Paulista, Guaratinguetá, Brazil; and C. A. G. Veras, E. C. Alvarado, D. V. Sandberg, E. R. Carvalho, R. Gielow, and J. C. Santos 8:30 AM J6E.2 The influence of weather on combustion limits in a longleaf pine forest   Casey Anderson, USDA Forest Service, Seattle, WA; and S. A. Ferguson, M. Rorig, K. Heirs, S. McKay, M. Moore, D. Olson, D. Wright, C. Wright, R. E. Vihnanek, and R. D. Ottmar 9:00 AM J6E.3 Fire spread in chaparral—“go or no-go?”   David R. Weise, USDA Forest Service, Riverside, CA; and X. Zhou, L. Sun, and S. Mahalingam 9:30 AM J6E.4 Preliminary height to crown base models for Giant Sequoia Groves   Samantha J. Gill, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, CA 10:00 AM Coffee Break   10:30 AM J6E.5 Modeling fire risk in post fuels treatment areas   James T. Hutton, Whiskeytown National Recreation Area, Whiskeytown, CA; and T. S. Bradley 11:00 AM J6E.6 The peripheral reduction in burn probability around recent burns in the boreal forest   Marc-André Parisien, Canadian Forest Service, Edmonton, AB, Canada; and V. G. Kafka, J. B. Todd, K. G. Hirsch, and S. Lavoie 11:30 AM J6E.7 Neighborhood-scale Fire Spread   Ronald Rehm, National Institute of Standards & Technology, Gaithersburg, MD; and D. Evans, W. Mell, S. Hostikka, K. McGrattan, G. Forney, C. Bouldin, and E. Baker
	8:00 AM-11:30 AM, Tuesday Joint Session 4G GIS/REMOTE SENSING: PART 2 (TRACK VII) (Joint between the 2nd International Wildland Fire Ecology and Fire Management Congress and the 5th Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology)
Chairs: Joe Frost, USDA Forest Service, Boise, ID; Ken Bottle, U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Denver, CO
8:00 AM J4G.1 A Multivariate Approach to Mapping Forest Vegetation and Fuels Using GIS Databases, Satellite Imagery, and Forest Inventory Plots   Michael C. Wimberly, University of Georgia, Athens, GA; and J. L. Ohmann, K. B. Pierce, M. J. Gregory, and J. S. Fried 8:30 AM J4G.2 Preliminary evaluation of vegetation change on a large prescribed burn in Alaska   Thomas F Paragi, Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Fairbanks, AK; and D. D. Smart, G. T. Worum, and D. A. Haggstrom 9:00 AM J4G.3 k-NN Mapping of Fire Fuel Parameters Using Satellite Imagery and Field Data from Forest Inventory Plots   Michael D. Fleming, SAIC, Anchorage, AK; and Z. Zhu and M. Hoppus 9:30 AM J4G.4 Mapping Crown Fuels Using Lidar   Jo Ann Fites-Kaufman, USDA Forest Service, Nevada City, CA; and B. Peterson, P. Hyde, R. Dubaya, C. Hunsaker, W. Walker, and L. Pierce 10:00 AM Coffee Break   10:30 AM J4G.5 Florida Fire Management Information System   Bill Beers, URS Corporation, Tallahassee, FL; and J. D. Brenner and S. Esner 11:00 AM J4G.6 How Enhancements in GIS Technology Can Address Challenges to Wildland Fire Management   Jeff Baranyi, Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc., Broofield, CO; and F. Dahl and J. Young
	8:30 AM-4:30 PM, Tuesday Joint Session 5D Risk Assessment and Decision Support (TRACK IV) (Joint between the 2nd International Wildland Fire Ecology and Fire Management Congress and the 5th Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology)
Chair: J. Kevin Hiers, Eglin Air Force Base, Niceville, FL
J5D.1 Bridging the Gap—A Practitioner’s Approach to Mid-scale Air Quality Assessments for Land Management Planning   Deirdre Dether, Boise National Forest, Boise, ID; and A. Acheson and B. Schoeberl 8:30 AM J5D.2 Optimizing Prescribed Burning Policies to Minimize the Economic Impacts of Wildfire in Florida   D. Evan Mercer, USDA Forest Service, Research Triangle Park, NC; and J. P. Prestemon, D. T. Butry, and J. M. Pye 9:00 AM J5D.3 Spatial Modeling Tools for Prioritizing Limited Prescribed Fire Resources   J. Kevin Hiers, Eglin Air Force Base, Niceville, FL; and J. H. Furman and S. C. Laine 9:30 AM J5D.4 Fire Management Decision Support System at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, USA   J. Kevin Hiers, Eglin Air Force Base, Niceville, FL; and J. H. Furman and W. Gooding 10:00 AM Coffee Break   10:30 AM J5D.5 Florida's Communities At Risk   Susan McLellan, Florida Division of Forestry, Tallahassee, FL; and J. D. Brenner 11:00 AM J5D.6 A Scaleable System for Wildland Fire Risk Assessment and Fuels Management   James L. Smith, Space Imaging, Jacksonville, FL; and J. Coen 11:30 AM J5D.7 The Fire Research And Management Exchange System (FRAMES) Tools Project: accessing, comparing, and developing wildland fire tools   Greg Gollberg, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID; and P. Morgan 12:00 PM Lunch Break   1:30 PM J5D.8 Web-based Mapping Applications in Response to Wildland Fires   Elizabeth L. Lile, USGS, Denver, CO; and C. Inbau 2:00 PM J5D.9 Evaluating designs for fuel management projects: application of a multi-attribute framework   Donald G. MacGregor, MacGregor-Bates, Inc., Eugene, OR; and C. Dammann and J. Anderson 2:30 PM J5D.10 Western Fire Ignition and Area Time Series Cross-Sectional Models   Jeffrey P. Prestemon, USDA Forest Service, Research Triangle Park, NC; and D. T. Butry, K. L. Abt, T. P. Holmes, D. E. Mercer, and J. M. Pye 3:00 PM COFFEE BREAK   3:30 PM J5D.11 Assessing the ecological implications of FireSmart forest management   Ana C. Espinoza, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; and W. Cui and D. L. Martell J5D.12 A fire load index for comparative analysis   Al Tithecott, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, Sault Ste Marie, ON, Canada; and R. McAlpine 4:00 PM J5D.13 An Event-Frame Model for Decomposition and Reconstruction of Large-Fire Decision Processes   Donald G. MacGregor, MacGregor-Bates, Inc., Eugene, OR; and A. Gonzalez-Caban 4:30 PM J5D.14 Identifying forests in need of fuel reduction and fire restoration   Bo Wilmer, The Wilderness Society, Seattle, WA; and G. Aplet
	8:30 AM-10:30 AM, Tuesday Session 6F Cultural Use of Fire (Track VI)
Chair: Peter F. Moore, Metis Associates, East Ryde, NSW Australia
8:30 AM 6F.1 Landscape analysis of Aboriginal fire management in Central Arnhem Land, north Australia   David M. J. S. Bowman, Northern Territory University, Darwin, Northern Territo, Australia; and L. Prior and A. Walsh 9:00 AM 6F.2 Introducing the Kakadu Landscape Change Project: A multidisciplinary assessment of 50 years of landscape change in the tropical savanna region of northern Australia   Aaron M. Petty, University of California, Davis, CA; and D. Banfai, L. D. Prior, C. Lehmann, and D. M. J. S. Bowman 6F.3 Fire and Southeastern Amerindian culture   Wayne D. Carroll, Clemson University, Clemson, SC; and P. R. Kapeluck and D. H. Van Lear 9:30 AM 6F.4 Anthropogenic or Lightning: Ignition Source of Pre-Euro-American Fire Regimes in the Southern Sierra Nevada?   Anthony C. Caprio, Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, Three Rivers, CA 6F.5 Problems and Prospects of Restoring An Ethnographic Landscape in Redwood National and State Park   Nelson Siefkin, National Park Service, Pacific West Region, Oakland, CA 10:00 AM Coffee Break
	10:30 AM-6:30 PM, Tuesday Session 3C Changing Fire Regimes in Tropical Environments (Track III)
Chair: Sarah Otterstrom, University of California, Davis, CA
10:30 AM 3C.1 Fire Regimes in Tropical Environments: An Overview   Ronald Myers, The Nature Conservancy, Tallahassee, FL 11:00 AM 3C.2 Tropical Fire Regimes of the Past   Kenneth H. Orvis, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN; and S. P. Horn, H. D. Grissino-Mayer, L. M. Kennedy, B. L. League, and J. H. Speer 11:30 AM 3C.3 Fire as a recurrent disturbance event in the tropics: Current fire-return intervals, the influence of fuel loads and precipitation   Narendran Kodandapani, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI; and S. Raman and M. A. Cochrane 12:00 PM Lunch Break   1:30 PM 3C.4 Tradeoffs between timber management and fire vulnerability   Geoffrey Blate, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL; and F. Putz 2:00 PM 3C.5 New fire regimes as spatial agents of land cover change in tropical landscapes: Lessons from the Amazon for natural resource management, conservation and sustainable development   Mark Cochrane, Center for Global Change and Earth Observations, East Lansing, MI 2:30 PM 3C.6 Fire Use in Rural Tropics: Cultural Perspectives from Mesoamerica   Sarah Otterstrom, University of California, Davis, CA 3:00 PM Coffee Break   3:30 PM 3C.7 Fire in Cerrado and Pantanal—Ecology and Management   Paulo C. Mendes Ramos, Brazilian Environment Institute, Brasília, Brazil 3C.8 Causes and effects of wildfire in a West African tropical forest region   T. Kwesi Orgle, Ministry of Lands and Forestry, Accra, Ghana 4:00 PM 3C.9 Fire regimes in SE Asia and shifting cultivation, What? Who? Where? Still? Who Else?   Peter F. Moore, Metis Associates, East Ryde, NSW, Australia 4:30 PM 3C.10 Engaging communities in fire fighting initiatives in the Southern Pantanal   Erika Guimarães, Conservation International do Brasil, Campo Grande, MS, Brazil 5:00 PM 3C.11 Integrating Fire Ecology, Fire Science and Fire Management to Maintain and Restore Appropriate Fire Regimes in the Tropics   Ronald Myers, The Nature Conservancy, Tallahassee, FL 5:30 PM Discussion
	11:30 AM-5:30 PM, Tuesday Session 4F Fire Education and Training (TRACK VI)
Chair: Elizabeth D. Reinhardt, USDA Forest Service, Missoula, MT
11:30 AM 4F.1 Wildfire Training for Volunteer Fire Departments   Julie E. Shiyou-Woodard, South Alabama Regional Planning Commission, Mobile, AL 12:00 PM Lunch Break   1:30 PM 4F.2 TEFF: The ten essential factors in firefighting   Patrick Withen, University of Virginia, Wise, VA 2:00 PM 4F.3 Sparking Awareness in the Next Generation: Successful Results of the "Fire in Florida's Ecosystems" Teacher Training Program   Susan Marynowski, Pandion Systems, Inc., Gainesville, FL; and C. B. Denny and J. D. Brenner 2:30 PM 4F.4 FireWords: an annotated, illustrated electronic glossary of wildland fire science terminology   Joe Scott, Systems for Environmental Management, Missoula, MT; and E. D. Reinhardt 3:00 PM Coffee Break   3:30 PM 4F.5 Fire ecology hypertext: a tool for synthesizing and distributing knowledge   Cynthia T. Fowler, USDA, Athens, GA; and D. Kennard and H. M. Rauscher 4:00 PM 4F.6 Burning Issues: Partners in Fire Education—"Fire Literacy for a Fire Wise World," Part 1: Developing an Interactive CD-Rom and Distribution Strategy   David E. LaHart, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL; and G. O. Dawson, J. Chapman, and J. Owens 4:30 PM 4F.7 Burning Issues: Partners in Fire Education—Implementation in Two Land Management Units   Jennifer A. Chapman, National Park Service, Point Reyes Station, CA; and K. Antunez, D. E. LaHart, and J. Owens 5:00 PM 4F.8 Living on the Edge in Florida CD-ROM   James Harrell, Florida Division of Forestry, Tallahassee, FL
	1:30 PM-5:15 PM, Tuesday Joint Session 8 Smoke Management and Air Quality (Joint between the 2nd International Wildland Fire Ecology and Fire Management Congress and the 5th Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology)
Chairs: Susan M. O'Neill, USDA Forest Service, Seattle, WA; N. K. Larkin, JISAO/Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA
1:30 PM J8.1 Adaptive Grid Modeling for Predicting the Air Quality Impacts of Biomass Burning   Alper Unal, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA; and M. T. Odman 1:45 PM J8.2 COMBINING WILDFIRE EMISSIONS FROM THE COMMUNITY SMOKE EMISSIONS MODEL (CSEM) WITH A REGIONAL-SCALE AIR QUALITY MODEL   Michael G. Barna, CIRA/Colorado State Univ., Fort Collins, CO; and D. G. Fox 2:00 PM J8.3 A natural fire experiment in central Russia: meteorology, radiative and optical properties of atmosphere and resulting effects on sub-boreal forest plants   Nataly Ye. Chubarova, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia; and N. G. Prilepsky, A. R. Riebau, A. W. Shoettle, R. Musselman, N. N. Uliumdzhieva, A. Y. Yurova, B. E. Potter, A. N. Rublev, P. Y. Zhmylev, and E. A. Karpuhina 2:15 PM J8.4 Spatial and Temporal Variability of Wildland Fire Emissions over the U.S   Yongqiang Liu, USDA Forest Service, Athens, GA 2:30 PM J8.5 Real time high resolution fire/smoke signature prediction model in coastal chaparral   Joe Rawitzer, Fire Spec Systems, Carmel, CA 2:45 PM J8.6 Recent results from PB-Piedmont—a model to simulate smoke on the ground at night   Gary L. Achtemeier, USDA Forest Service, Athens, GA 3:00 PM Coffee Break   3:30 PM J8.7 The BlueSky Smoke Modeling Framework (www.BlueSkyRAINS.org)   Susan M. O'Neill, USDA Forest Service, Seattle, WA; and S. A. Ferguson, J. Peterson, and R. Wilson 3:45 PM J8.8 Assessing accuracy of the BlueSky smoke modeling framework during wildfire events   J. Westbrook Adkins, USDA Forest Service, Seattle, WA; and S. M. O'Neill, M. Rorig, S. A. Ferguson, C. M. Berg, and J. L. Hoadley 4:00 PM J8.9 On the origins of “Superfog”—a combination of smoke and water vapor that produces zero visibility over roadways   Gary L. Achtemeier, USDA Forest Service, Athens, GA 4:15 PM J8.10 Smoke measurements during experimental field fires   Ana Isabel Miranda, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal; and J. Ferreira, J. Valente, P. Santos, J. H. Amorim, and C. Borrego 4:30 PM J8.11 A comparison of real-time particulate monitors for smoke management   Suraj Ahuja, U.S. Forest Service, Willows, CA; and T. Proctor, P. Padgett, and B. Plymale 4:45 PM J8.12 Biomass burning of eucalypt savannas and respiratory illness in the Australian monsoon tropics   David M. J. S. Bowman, Northern Territory University, Darwin, Northern Territo, Australia; and F. H. Johnston
	1:30 PM-5:30 PM, Tuesday Joint Session 7G Wildfire Burn Severity Mapping (Special Session) (TRACK VII) (Joint between the 2nd International Wildland Fire Ecology and Fire Management Congress and the 5th Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology)
Chair: Randy A. McKinley, USGS and SAIC, Sioux Falls, SD
1:30 PM J7G.1 Supporting the Mapping Needs of Burned Area Emergency Response Teams with Satellite Imagery   Randy A. McKinley, USGS and SAIC, Sioux Falls, SD; and K. Lannom and A. Parsons 2:00 PM J7G.2 Evaluating Fire Impacts with Landsat Data: A Comparison of Two Methodologies   Stephen M. Howard, SAIC and USGS, Sioux Falls, SD; and A. Orlemann and C. H. Key 2:30 PM J7G.3 Data acquisition timing for burned area remote sensing and relationships to measures of burn severity   Carl H. Key, USGS, West Glacier, MT; and N. Benson, D. Ohlen, S. Howard, and Z. Zhu 3:00 PM Coffee Break   3:30 PM J7G.4 Using the Composite Burn Index to field validation meso-scale burn severity assessment   Nathan C. Benson, National Park Service, Homestead, FL; and C. Key J7G.5 Assessment of burn severity in northern Arizona using Landsat ETM+ imagery and ground data   Allison E. Cocke, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ; and P. Z. Fulé 4:00 PM J7G.6 Assessing Landscape Patterns of Fire Severity and Fire Regimes using Burn Severity Mapping for the Sierra Nevada, CA   Andrea E. Thode, University of California, Davis and US Forest Service, Tahoe National Forest, McClellan, CA; and N. Sugihara, L. Levien, and J. F. Quinn 4:30 PM J7G.7 Assessing Impacts of Scaling on Burn Severity Mapping and Derived Fire Effects   Zhiliang Zhu, USGS, Sioux Falls, SD 5:00 PM J7G.8 Burn Mapping of Wildland Fires within Different Ecosystems Using Field Verified Satellite Data   Donald Ohlen, SAIC and USGS/EROS Data Center, Sioux Falls, SD; and C. Key, N. Benson, and Z. Zhu
	3:30 PM-4:30 PM, Tuesday Session 6A Incentives for Mitigation and Firefighting
3:30 PM 6A.1 Incentives for Intergovernmental Wildfire Hazard Mitigation and Enhanced Local Firefighting (formerly paper 5F.1)   Bruce McDowell, National Academy of Public Administration, Washington, DC
Wednesday, 19 November 2003
	8:00 AM-1:30 PM, Wednesday Joint Session 9 Assessing and Predicting Climate Impacts on Landscapes (Joint between the 5th Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology and the 2nd International Wildland Fire Ecology and Fire Management Congress)
Chairs: Beth L. Hall, DRI, Reno, NV; Kerry Anderson, Canadian Forest Service, Edmonton, AB Canada
8:00 AM J9.1 Contemporary climate changes in high latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere cause an increasing potential forest fire danger   Pavel Ya. Groisman, NOAA/NESDIS/NCDC, Asheville, NC; and R. W. Knight, R. R. Heim, V. N. Razuvaev, B. G. Sherstyukov, and N. A. Speranskaya 8:15 AM J9.2 Forest Fires and Climate in Alaska and Sakha: Forest Fires Near Yakutsk   Hiroshi Hayasaka, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan 8:30 AM J9.3 The impacts of climate on prescribed fire   Crystal A. Kolden, University of Nevada, Reno, NV; and T. J. Brown 8:45 AM J9.4 The Southwest Monsoon and the relation to fire occurrence   Charlene R. Mohrle, DRI, Reno, NV; and B. L. Hall and T. J. Brown 9:00 AM J9.5 Characterizing extreme dry-spell and forest fire events in the province of Ontario, Canada   Jennifer L. Beverly, Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; and D. L. Martell 9:15 AM J9.6 Wildfire-Climate Interactions Across Southeast Arizona   Michael A. Crimmins, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and A. C. Comrie 9:30 AM J9.7 A fire scenario builder for coarse-scale modeling of current and future fire effects   Narasimhan Larkin, USDA Forest Service, Seattle, WA; and D. McKenzie and S. M. O'Neill 9:45 AM Discussion   10:00 AM Coffee Break   10:30 AM J9.8 Characteristic Composite Charts Associated With Peak Fire Season In Vermont   Eric C. Evenson, NOAA/NWS, South Burlington, VT 10:45 AM J9.9 Fire Danger Forecasts   John Roads, SIO/Univ. of California, La Jolla, CA; and S. Chen, F. M. Fujioka, and R. Burgan 11:00 AM J9.10 Long lead statistical forecasts of wildland fire suppression costs   Anthony L. Westerling II, SIO/Univ. of California, La Jolla, CA; and K. Gebert, G. Jones, K. Abt, J. Prestemon, and A. Gershunov 11:15 AM J9.11 Verification of ECPC’s fire climate and fire danger Forecasts   Hauss J. Reinbold, DRI, Reno, NV; and T. J. Brown, J. O. Roads, and B. L. Hall 11:30 AM J9.12 The 2003 National Seasonal Assessment Workshop: A Proactive Approach to Preseason Fire Danger Assessment   Gregg M. Garfin, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and T. Wordell, T. J. Brown, R. Ochoa, and B. J. Moorehouse 11:45 AM Discussion   12:00 PM Lunch Break
	8:00 AM-1:30 PM, Wednesday Session 3A Fire Management Programs (TRACK I)
Chair: Geoorge Custer, USDA Forest Service, Umatilla, FL
8:00 AM 3A.1 Prescribed Burning by the Florida Park Service   Rosi Mulholland, Florida Department of Environmental Protection, Apopka, FL; and P. E. Small and B. Blihovde 8:30 AM 3A.2 The Florida scrub-jay fire strike team   Mary R. Huffman, The Nature Conservancy, Babson Park, FL; and S. C. Morrison, A. R. Peterson, and B. Pace-Aldana 9:00 AM 3A.3 Fire management in the inter-galatic interface or thirty years of fire management at Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge   Frederic W. Adrian, US Fish & Wildlife Service, Titusville, FL 9:30 AM 3A.4 Fire management at Archbold Biological Station: Burning to promote heterogeneity, conservation, research, and education   Jeffrey T. Hutchinson, Archbold Biological Station, Lake Placid, FL; and E. S. Menges, R. L. Pickert, and H. M. Swain 10:00 AM Coffee Break   10:30 AM 3A.5 Wildland fire in the Black Hills   Randall P. Benson, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, Rapid City, SD; and M. P. Murphy 11:00 AM 3A.6 Developing the Resource Advisor position at Yosemite National Park   Jun Kinoshita, Yosemite National Park, El Portal, CA; and K. Paintner 11:30 AM 3A.7 Partnering with the Broadcast Meteorologist: An Innovative Science Approach to Informing the Public about the Dangers of Wildland Fires   Dave Jones, StormCenter.Com, Ellicott City, MD 12:00 PM Lunch Break
	8:00 AM-10:30 AM, Wednesday Session 3B Fire effects on Flora: PART 2 (TRACK II)
Chair: Sue Grace, U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Lacombe, LA
8:00 AM 3B.1 Managing grasslands for multiple objectives using prescribed fire   David Engle, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK; and S. D. Fuhlendorf, T. G. Bidwell, J. Weir, T. Tunnell, and R. Hamilton 8:30 AM 3B.2 The Effect of Fire Severity on Early Development of Understory vegetation Following a Stand Replacing Wildfire   G. Geoff Wang, Clemson University, Clemson, SC; and K. J. Kemball 9:00 AM 3B.3 Spatial heterogeneity in fire temperature: causes and consequences for plant diversity   Monique E. Rocca, Duke University, Durham, NC; and D. L. Urban 9:30 AM 3B.4 Fire effects assessment using FIA data in the northern and central Rocky Mountains   Theresa B. Jain, USDA Forest Service, Moscow, Idaho, ID; and R. Their and W. Michael 10:00 AM Coffee Break
	8:00 AM-1:30 PM, Wednesday Joint Session 10D Landfire (Special Session) (TRACK IV) (Joint between the 2nd International Wildland Fire Ecology and Fire Management Congress and the 5th Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology)
Chair: Melanie Miller, USDI Bureau of Land Management, Missoula, MT
8:00 AM J10D.1 LANDFIRE: A nationally consistent and locally relevant interagency fire, fuels, and risk assesment   Matthew G. Rollins, USDA Forest Service, Missoula, MT; and R. E. Keane, Z. Zhu, J. Menakis, W. Hann, and A. Shlisky 8:30 AM J10D.2 Developing the spatial programs and models needed for implementation of the LANDFIRE Project   Robert E. Keane, USDA Forest Service, Missoula, MT; and M. Rollins and R. Parsons 9:00 AM J10D.3 Biophysical Settings -- linking landscape patterns to ecophysiological processes   Lisa Holsinger, USDA Forest Service, Missoula, MT; and R. Parsons, M. Rollins, E. Karau, and A. Keyser 9:30 AM J10D.4 A Repeatable Consistent National vegetation Mapping strategy   Zhiliang Zhu, USGS, Sioux Falls, SD; and J. Vogelmann and C. Huang 10:00 AM Coffee Break   10:30 AM J10D.5 Preliminary Landfire vegetation products in the Wasatch Range-Uinta Mountain area of Utah   Chengquan Huang, USGS and SAIC, Sioux Falls, SD; and J. Vogelmann, B. Tolk, and Z. Zhu 11:00 AM J10D.6 Predictive Mapping of Fire Regimes   Russell A. Parsons, USDA Forest Service, Missoula, MT; and R. E. Keane and M. G. Rollins 11:30 AM J10D.7 Potential Management Applications of the LANDFIRE Products   Donald Long, USDA Forest Service, Missoula, MT; and M. Rollins and W. Hann 12:00 PM Lunch Break
	10:30 AM-2:30 PM, Wednesday Session 4B Invasive Plants and Fire (TRACK II)
Chair: Steve Sutherland, USDA Forest Service, Missoula, MT
4B.1 Comparison of fuels in invaded and uninvaded forest stands in the northeastern and mid-Atlantic U.S   Alison C. Dibble, USDA Forest Service, Bradley, ME; and C. A. Rees, W. A. Patterson III, and M. J. Ducey 10:30 AM 4B.2 Effects of fuel treatments, post-fire rehabilitation treatments and wildfire on establishment of invasive species   Molly E. Hunter, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and P. N. Omi, E. J. Martinson, G. W. Chong, M. A. Kalkhan, and T. J. Stohlgren 11:00 AM 4B.3 Fuels, fires, invasions and some effects of active management in the Eastern Rockies   Erik J. Martinson, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and G. W. Chong, M. E. Hunter, M. A. Kalkhan, P. N. Omi, and T. J. Stohlgren 11:30 AM Lunch Break   1:00 PM 4B.4 Wildfire and weeds in the northern Rockies   Steve Sutherland, USDA Forest Service, Missoula, MT 1:30 PM 4B.5 Using fire to manage invasive plants   Matthew L. Brooks, USGS, Henderson, NV; and C. M. D'Antonio and D. A. Pyke
	1:30 PM-4:30 PM, Wednesday Joint Session 11 Fire and Drought Indices (Joint between the 5th Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology and the 2nd International Wildland Fire Ecology and Fire Management Congress)
Chairs: Richard Ochoa, Bureau of Land Management, Boise, ID; Larry S. Bradshaw, USDA Forest Service, Missoula, MT
1:30 PM J11.1 Development of a statistical validation methodology for fire weather indices   Brian E. Potter, USDA Forest Service, East Lansing, MI; and S. L. Goodrick and T. J. Brown 1:45 PM J11.2 Drought Indexes as Indicators of Fire Activity   Patricia L. Andrews, USDA Forest Service Research, Missoula, MT 2:00 PM J11.3 A comparison of precipitation and drought indices related to fire activity in the US   Beth L. Hall, DRI, Reno, NV; and T. J. Brown 2:15 PM J11.4 Validating the Overwintering Effect on the Drought Code in Elk Island National Park   Kerry Anderson, Canadian Forest Service, Edmonton, AB, Canada; and S. Otway 2:30 PM J11.5 Independent field verification of a next-generation model for dead fuel moisture   J. D. Carlson, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK; and L. S. Bradshaw, R. M. Nelson, and R. R. Bensch 2:45 PM J11.6 A comparison of 3 models of 1-hr time lag fuel moisture in Hawaii   David R. Weise, USDA Forest Service, Riverside, CA; and F. M. Fujioka and R. M. Nelson 3:00 PM Coffee Break   3:30 PM J11.7 The Validity of the Keetch/Byram Drought Index in the Hawaiian Islands   Klaus P. Dolling, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI; and P. S. Chu and F. M. Fujioka 3:45 PM J11.8 A Climatological Study of the Keetch/Byram Drought Index in the Hawaiian Islands   Pao-Shin Chu, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI; and K. P. Dolling and F. M. Fujioka 4:00 PM J11.9 Exhausting relative greenness: Inaccurate Fire Potential Index for Florida?   Carter Stone, Florida Division of Forestry, Tallahassee, FL; and S. L. Goodrick and D. E. Hanley 4:15 PM J11.10 National standardized energy release component (ERC) forecasts   Beth L. Hall, DRI, Reno, NV; and T. J. Brown, L. S. Bradshaw, W. M. Jolly, and R. Nemani
	1:30 PM-5:30 PM, Wednesday Session 4A Managing Fire in the Wildland/Urban Interface (TRACK I)
Chair: Doug Voltolina, Florida Division of Forestry, Bradenton, FL
1:30 PM 4A.1 Characteristics and location of the wildland-urban interface in the United States   Susan I. Stewart, USDA Forest Service, Evanston, IL; and V. C. Radeloff and R. B. Hammer 2:00 PM 4A.2 Common Factors Affecting the Social Acceptance of Fuel Management Techniques   Greg Winter, Paul Schissler Associates, Bellingham, WA; and C. Vogt and J. Fried 2:30 PM 4A.3 Creating defensible space in the urban-wildland interface: a comparison of perceptions of seasonal and full–time residents   Alan D. Bright, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; and R. T. Burtz 3:00 PM Coffee Break   3:30 PM 4A.4 Managing fire in the urban interface of interior Alaska   Dale A. Haggstrom, Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Fairbanks, AK 4:00 PM 4A.5 Islands of fire: meeting the wildland urban interface challenge in the Florida Keys   Chris Bergh, The Nature Conservancy, Summerland Key, FL 4A.6 Fuel management through crushing and burning   Scott E. Franklin, Urban Wildland Fire Managment, Santa Clarita, CA 4:30 PM 4A.7 Fire Gels- breakthrough technology for structure protection in the WUI   John B. Bartlett, Barricade International, Inc., Hobe Sound, FL
	1:30 PM-5:30 PM, Wednesday Session 4C Fire History/Fire Regimes: PART 1 (TRACK III)
Chair: Ellis Margolis, University of Arizona, Tusan, AZ
1:30 PM 4C.1 Holocene fire reconstructions from the northwestern U.S.: an examination at multiple time scales   Cathy Whitlock, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR; and P. J. Bartlein, J. Marlon, A. Brunelle, and C. J. Long 2:00 PM 4C.2 Mean Fire Return Intervals as Indicators of Change in Boreal Siberia   Amber J. Soja, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA; and P. W. Stackhouse and H. H. Shugart 2:30 PM 4C.3 Climatic influences on fire regimes in the Lake Tahoe Basin   Alan H. Taylor, Penn State University, University Park, PA; and M. Beaty 3:00 PM Coffee Break   3:30 PM 4C.4 Reconstructing spatiotemporal patterns in fire regimes from fire-scar and tree-origin data in southwestern ponderosa pine forests   Peter M. Brown, Rocky Mountain Tree-Ring Research, Ft. Collins, CO; and R. Wu 4:00 PM 4C.5 A comparison of fire regime characteristics reconstructed from fire scar data and mapped fires in a frequently burned Arizona wilderness   Calvin A. Farris, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ; and C. H. Baisan and T. W. Swetnam 4:30 PM 4C.6 Fire effects on forest spatial patterns in the Arizona sky islands   Mary C. Henry, Miami University, Oxford, OH 5:00 PM 4C.7 Fire history and need for fuel management in mixed Douglas fir forests of the Klamath-Siskiyou region, northwest California and southwest Oregon, USA   Jay C. Lininger, University of Montana, Missoula, MT
	1:30 PM-5:30 PM, Wednesday Session 1E Fire Behavior Applications (TRACK V)
Chairs: Charles W. McHugh, USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Missoula, MT; Robert C. Seli, USDA Forest Service Research, Missoula, MT
1:30 PM 1E.1 Flammability of native understory species within pine flatwood and hardwood hammock ecosystems   Anna L. Behm, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL; and M. L. Duryea, A. J. Long, W. C. Zipperer, and C. K. Randall 2:00 PM 1E.2 Landscape fragmentation and fire vulnerability in primary forest adjacent to recent land clearings in the Amazon arc of deforestation   Ernesto C. Alvarado, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; and D. V. Sandberg, J. Andrade de Carvalho, R. Gielow, and J. C. Santos 2:30 PM 1E.3 Measuring the Effectiveness of Fuel Treatments in Changing Fire Behavior and Effects During Wildfires   Jo Ann Fites-Kaufman, USDA Forest Service, Nevada City, CA; and D. Sapsis, S. Husari, L. Hood, B. Bahro, C. Neill, D. C. Lee, and B. Butler 3:00 PM Coffee Break   3:30 PM 1E.4 Seasonal changes in selected combustion characteristics of ornamental vegetation   David R. Weise, USDA Forest Service, Riverside, CA; and R. H. White, S. Frommer, F. C. Beall, and M. Etlinger 4:00 PM 1E.5 Probability of Spotfires During Prescribed Burns   John R. Weir, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK 4:30 PM 1E.6 Fire Modeling and Weather Analysis on the White Mountain National Forest   Rick D. Stratton, Systems for Environmental Management, Missoula, MT; and T. Brady 5:00 PM 1E.7 Fire behavior and fire seasonality in the Washington Cascades   Michael Medler, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA; and K. E. Buford
	1:30 PM-5:00 PM, Wednesday Session 1G NASA's Application Program: Remote Sensing Input to Decision Support Systems for Fire Prediction and Management
Chair: Bruce Davis, NASA, Stennis Space Center, MS
1:30 PM 1G.1 WASP— A high performance multi-spectral airborne imager for wildland fire detection and monitoring   Donald McKeown, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY; and J. Cockburn, J. Faulring, R. Kremens, D. Morse, H. Rhody, and M. Richardson 2:00 PM 1G.2 Unmanned Aerial Vehicles—New Frontiers   Steve Wegener, NASA/AMes Research Center, Moffett Field, CA 2:30 PM 1G.3 Use of NASA Earth Observing System Data to Monitor Active Fires and to Develop SensorWeb Decision Support Systems   Robert A. Sohlberg, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 3:00 PM Coffee Break   3:30 PM 1G.4 The Use of Remote Sensing Technologies to Support Fire Suppression and Rehabilitation   Thomas J. Bobbe, USDA Forest Service, Salt Lake City, UT 4:00 PM Discussion
	2:30 PM-5:30 PM, Wednesday Session 5B Fire effects on wildlife (TRACK III)
Chair: R. Todd Engstrom, The Nature's Conservancy, Thomasville, GA
2:30 PM 5B.1 Effects of fire on the biota of high-elevation lakes in the Oregon Cascade Range   Robert E. Gresswell, USGS, Corvallis, OR; and G. L. Larson, E. A. Deimling, C. D. McIntire, R. L. Hoffman, and W. J. Liss 3:00 PM Coffee Break   3:30 PM 5B.2 Wildfire in the southwstern USA: effects on fishes   John N. Rinne, USDA Forest Service, Flagstaff, AZ 4:00 PM 5B.3 Landscape analysis of moose distribution relative to fire history in Interior Alaska   J. A. Maier, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, AK; and J. Ver Hoef, A. D. McGuire, R. T. Bowyer, L. B. Saperstein, and H. Maier 4:30 PM 5B.4 Wildfire effects on bird abundance in a mixed-severity fire regime: Treating fire severity as a continuous variable   Nathaniel E. Seavy, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL; and J. D. Alexander, C. J. Ralph, S. Janes, and S. Norman 5:00 PM 5B.5 Response of mixed Douglas-fir / Tanoak forests to different fire intensity/severity levels: implications for terrestrial salamanders and their habitats   Donald J. Major, Utah State University, Logan, UT; and T. C. Edwards
	6:30 PM, Wednesday Symposium and Congress Banquet
Lecturer: Henry Lewis, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB Canada
Thursday, 20 November 2003
	8:00 AM-10:30 AM, Thursday Joint Session 12 Fire Consortia for Advanced Modeling of Meteorology and Smoke (Joint between the 5th Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology and the 2nd International Wildland Fire Ecology and Fire Management Congress)
Chair: Brian E. Potter, USDA Forest Service, East Lansing, MI
8:00 AM J12.1 Fire Consortia for Advanced Modeling of Meteorology and Smoke—FCAMMS: A National Paradigm for Wildland Fire and Smoke Management   Allen R. Riebau, USDA Forest Service, Washington, DC; and D. G. Fox 8:30 AM J12.2 A consortium for comprehensive mesoscale weather analysis and forecasting to monitor fire threat and support fire management operations   Karl Zeller, USDA Forest Service, Fort Collins, CO; and J. McGinley, N. Nikolov, P. Schultz, B. Shaw, S. Albers, and J. Snook 8:45 AM J12.3 Real-Time Mesoscale Model Forecasts for Fire and Smoke Management: 2003   Sue A. Ferguson, USDA Forest Sevice, Seattle, WA 9:00 AM J12.4 The California and Nevada Smoke and Air Committee (CANSAC)—An interagency partnership to meet decision-making needs   Timothy J. Brown, DRI, Reno, NV; and F. M. Fujioka and C. Fontana 9:15 AM J12.5 The Southern High-Resolution Modeling Consortium—a source for research and operational collaboration   Gary L. Achtemeier, USDA Forest Service, Athens, GA; and S. L. Goodrick and Y. Liu 9:30 AM J12.6 National Fire Plan—Eastern Area Modeling Consortium: Research, product development, and partnerships   Warren E. Heilman, USDA Forest Service, East Lansing, MI; and B. E. Potter, J. J. Charney, and X. Bian 9:45 AM Discussion   10:00 AM Coffee Break
	8:00 AM-2:30 PM, Thursday Session 5A Wildland Fire Use (Special Session) (Track I)
Chairs: G. Thomas Zimmerman, USDA Forest Service, Albuquerque, NM; Wayne Cook, USDA Forest Service, Missoula, MT
8:00 AM 5A.1 Wildland Fire Use—Evolution of a Program of Managing Wildland Fires for Resource Benefits   G. Thomas Zimmerman, USDA Forest Service, Albuquerque, NM; and R. Lasko 9:00 AM 5A.2 Historical Wildland Fire Use: Ponderosa pine forest structure after a 25-year experiment in restoring fire regimes in southwestern landscapes   Zack Holden, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID; and P. Morgan and M. Rollins 9:30 AM 5A.3 Economic and Political Dimensions of Wildland Fire Use   Lisa A. Dale, The Wilderness Society, Denver, CO 10:00 AM Coffee Break   10:30 AM 5A.4 Fire Use Management Teams—Meeting Organizational Needs of Managing Long-Duration Wildland Fires   Wayne Cook, USDA Forest Service, Missoula, MT; and G. T. Zimmerman 11:00 AM 5A.5 Guidelines for Planning and Implementing Wildland Fire Use—Update of the Wildland and Prescribed Fire Management Policy Implementation Procedures Reference Guide   G. Thomas Zimmerman, USDA Forest Service, Albuquerque, NM 12:00 PM Lunch Break   1:30 PM 5A.6 Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, A Nontraditional Approach to Fire Management   Fred Wetzel, Okefenokee NWR, Folkston, GA 2:00 PM 5A.7 Wildland Fire Use Gila National Forest, NM 2003—The Future is now   Paul F. Boucher, Gila National Forest, Silver City, NM
	8:00 AM-9:30 AM, Thursday Session 6B Fire Effects on Insects and Disease (TRACK II)
Chair: Sharon M. Hood, USDA Forest Service, Missoula, MT
8:00 AM 6B.1 Are root infecting fungi indicators of ecosystem stress following prescribed fire?   William J. Otrosina, USDA, Athens, GA; and S. S. Sung, B. T. Sullivan, S. J. Zarnoch, and C. H. Walkinshaw 8:30 AM 6B.2 Association of wildfire with long-term tree health and numbers of pine bark beetles and their associates in Florida   James Hanula, USDA Forest Service, Southern Research Station, Athens, GA; and J. Meeker, D. Miller, and E. Barnard 9:00 AM 6B.3 Douglas-fir beetle attack and tree mortality following wildfire   Sharon M. Hood, USDA Forest Service, Missoula, MT; and B. Bentz and K. C. Ryan
	8:00 AM-2:30 PM, Thursday Session 5C FIRE HISTORY/FIRE REGIMES: Part 2 (Track III)
Chair: Rosalind Wu, USDA Forest Service, Durango, CO
8:00 AM 5C.1 Anthropogenic fuel alteration and changes in spatial fire behavior in a southeastern pyrogenic ecosystem   Brean W. Duncan, Dynamac Corp., Kennedy Space Center, FL; and P. A. Schmalzer 8:30 AM 5C.2 Reexamining the role of lightning in the landscape of Great Smoky Mountains National Park   Dana Cohen, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Gatlinburg, TN; and B. Dellinger 9:00 AM 5C.3 Human influence on fire disturbance in northern Wisconsin   Brian R. Sturtevant, USDA Forest Service, Rhinelander, WI; and D. T. Cleland 9:30 AM 5C.4 Fire and spruce bark beetle disturbance regimes on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska   Edward E. Berg, US Fish and Wildlife Service, Soldotna, AK; and R. S. Anderson and A. D. De Volder 10:00 AM Coffee Break   10:30 AM 5C.5 Fire history of Whiskeytown National Recreation Area, Shasta County, California   Scott L. Stephens, University of California, Berkeley, CA; and D. L. Fry 11:00 AM 5C.6 Fire history of mixed conifer forests in Yosemite National Park   Andrew E. Scholl, Penn State University, University Park, PA; and A. H. Taylor 11:30 AM 5C.7 Fire history and stand scale dynamics of mixed conifer forests in the Lake Tahoe Basin   Matthew Beaty, Penn State University, University Park, PA; and A. H. Taylor 12:00 PM Lunch Break   1:30 PM 5C.8 Fire history of Lava Cast Forest, Central Oregon   Karen B. Arabas, Willamette University, Salem, OR; and E. R. Larson and K. S. Hadley 2:00 PM 5C.9 Spatial distribution of the potential effects of wildfires under the intermediate disturbance hypothesis in a Mexican forest ecosystem   J. German Flores G., Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Forestales, Agricolas y Pecuarias, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
	8:00 AM-11:00 AM, Thursday Session 3D Fuels Planning: Science Synthesis and Integration (Track IV)
Chair: Russell T. Graham, USDA Forest Service, Moscow, ID
8:00 AM 3D.1 Fuels planning: Science synthesis and integration. An interagency research/management partnership to support the Ten-Year Fire Plan in the Dry Forests of the Interior West   Russell T. Graham, USDA Forest Service, Moscow, ID; and S. M. McCaffrey 8:30 AM 3D.2 Social Concerns Related to Wildfire Fuels Treatments   Pamela Jakes, USDA Forest Service, North Central Research Station, St. Paul, MN; and S. C. Barro 9:00 AM 3D.3 Environmental Consequences   Elaine Kennedy Sutherland, USDA Forest Service, Missoula, MT; and A. Black, W. Elliot, M. Miller, D. Neary, D. Pilliod, P. Robichaud, and S. Sutherland 9:30 AM 3D.4 Paying for fuel treatments: Fire Science Synthesis - Economic and Utilization Team   R. James Barbour, USDA Forest Service, Portland, OR; and R. Fight 10:00 AM Coffee Break   10:30 AM 3D.5 Fuels planning: managing forest structure to reduce fire hazard   David L. Peterson, USDA Forest Service, Seattle, WA; and M. C. Johnson, J. K. Agee, T. B. Jain, D. McKenzie, and E. D. Reinhardt
	8:00 AM-8:15 AM, Thursday Session 5F Social and Economic Aspects of Fire Management: Part 2 (TRACK VI)
8:00 AM 5F.1 Paper has been moved to session 6A (Track 1), new paper number 6A.1
	9:30 AM-12:00 PM, Thursday Session 7B Fire Effects Monitoring (TRACK II)
Chair: Duncan C. Lutes, Systems for Environmental Management, Missoula, MT
9:30 AM 7B.1 FIREMON: Fire Effects Monitoring and Inventory System   Duncan C. Lutes, Systems for Environmental Management, Missoula, MT; and R. E. Keane, J. F. Caratti, C. H. Key, N. C. Benson, S. Sutherland, and L. J. Gangi 10:00 AM Break   10:30 AM 7B.2 Fire Ecology Assessment Tool—Monitoring Wildland Fire And Prescribed Fire for Adaptive Management   Timothy Ogden Sexton, National Park Service, Boise, ID 11:00 AM 7B.3 Comparing scale and assessment methodologies in fuels management   Maria C. Moreno, University of North Texas, Denton, TX; and D. Barry 11:30 AM 7B.4 A review of error associated with thermocouple temperature measurement in fire environments   K. S. Shannon, USDA Forest Service, Missoula, MT; and B. W. Butler
	10:30 AM-1:30 PM, Thursday Panel Discussion 1 Fair Weather: Effective Partnerships in Weather and Climate Services (Joint between the 2nd International Wildland Fire Ecology and Fire Management Congress and the 5th Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology)
Chair: Timothy J. Brown, DRI, Reno, NV
10:30 AM J4G.6 How Enhancements in GIS Technology Can Address Challenges to Wildland Fire Management   Jeff Baranyi, Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc., Broofield, CO; and F. Dahl and J. Young
	12:00 PM, Thursday Lunch Break (Joint between the 2nd International Wildland Fire Ecology and Fire Management Congress and the 5th Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology)
	1:30 PM, Thursday Open Discussion with Panel Discussion: Fair Weather: Effective Partnerships in Weather and Climate Services
	3:30 PM-5:05 PM, Thursday Plenary Session 2 Closing Plenary Session (Joint between the 2nd International Wildland Fire Ecology and Fire Management Congress and the 5th Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology)
Chair: Timothy J. Brown, DRI, Reno, NV
3:30 PM PL2.1 Understanding Tropical Fire Regimes: Research Needs, Management Implications   Sally Horn, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 4:00 PM PL2.2 Temperate Ecosystems   Scott Stephens, University of California, Berkeley, CA 4:30 PM PL2.3 Forest Fire Research in the Boreal Zone: Current Status and Future Direction   Brian Stocks, Canadian Forest Service, Edmonton, AB, Canada; and E. S. Kasischke, D. J. McRae, S. G. Conard, A. D. McGuire, J. G. Goldammer, M. D. Flannigan, B. D. Amiro, A. I. Sukhinin, and G. A. Ivanova 5:00 PM PL2.4 Closing Remarks   Tim Brown, DRI, Reno, NV

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