Session 4A |
| | Managing Fire in the Wildland/Urban Interface (TRACK I) |
| | Chair: Doug Voltolina, Florida Division of Forestry, Bradenton, FL
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| 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
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| 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 |