5th Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology and the 2nd International Wildland Fire Ecology and Fire Management Congress

Session 2F: Social and Economic Aspects of Fire Management: Part I (TRACK VI)

Monday, 17 November 2003: 2:00 PM-5:30 PM
Chair:  Armando Gonzalez-Caban, USDA Forest Service
Papers:
  2:00 PM
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
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

  3:30 PM
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

  4:00 PM
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

  4:30 PM
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

http://C:\Documents and Settings\agc\My Documents\Presentaciones\Big Game Habitat Fire 2003 Orlando-FL.ppt

  5:00 PM
Coffee Break