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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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 |