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

Session 5C: FIRE HISTORY/FIRE REGIMES: Part 2 (Track III)

Thursday, 20 November 2003: 8:00 AM-2:30 PM
Chair:  Rosalind Wu, USDA Forest Service
Papers:
  8:00 AM
  8:30 AM
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
Human influence on fire disturbance in northern Wisconsin
Brian R. Sturtevant, USDA Forest Service, Rhinelander, WI; and D. T. Cleland

  9:30 AM
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
Fire history of Whiskeytown National Recreation Area, Shasta County, California
Scott L. Stephens, University of California, Berkeley, CA; and D. L. Fry

  10:30 AM
Fire history of mixed conifer forests in Yosemite National Park
Andrew E. Scholl, Penn State University, University Park, PA; and A. H. Taylor

  11:00 AM
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

  11:30 AM
Fire history of Lava Cast Forest, Central Oregon
Karen B. Arabas, Willamette University, Salem, OR; and E. R. Larson and K. S. Hadley

  12:00 PM
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

  12:30 PM
Coffee Break

  1:00 PM
Lunch Break