WILDFIRE

Siskiyou Unit Fire Management Plan 2005
California Codes regarding Hose Companies and Community Service Areas (CSAs)
at Risk Communities
- CA state "Communities At Risk"
- Federal Register list of "At Risk Communities"
- Siskiyou County Fuels: Fire Hazard Severity Zones RECOMMENDED, 5-2008, Very High zones in LRA
Siskiyou County Ordinance: Title 3, Chapter 18 Regarding Community Wildfire Protection Planning
Fire Safe
Community Wildfire Protection Plan (CWPP)
National fire Plan
- 10 year Strategy Implementation Plan
- Monitoring Fuel Treatments Across the Continental United States for Overall Effectiveness and Effects on Aquatic and Terrestrial Habitat, Air and Water Quality - 2008 Report
- A Collaborative Approach for Reducing Wildland Fire Risks to Communities and the Environment, Monitoring and Performance Report - DRAFT Briefing Paper
- The National Fire Plan Department of Interior Rural Fire Assistance
- Healthy Forest Restoration Act
- Wildland Fire Leadership Council
- Cohesive Strategy Process Framework: A Blueprint
- Cohesive Strategy Process Framework: A Blueprint
- FLAME Act of 2009
- 2009 Quadrennial Fire Review (QFR)
- The Future of Wildland Fire Management
- A Call to Action
- Mutual Expectations for Preparedness and Suppression in the Interface
- Wildland Fire Protection and Response in the United States, The Responsibilities, Authorities, and Roles of Federal, State, Local, and Tribal Government
- Wildland Fire and Fuels Research and Development Strategic Plan: Meeting the Needs of the Present, Anticipating the Needs of the Future
- National Database of State and Local Wildfire Hazard Mitigation Programs
- The True Cost of Wildfire in the Western U.S.
Audit Report No. 08601-44-SF November 2006 Large Fire Supression Costs
Wildfire emissions KNF 2007,2008, 2009
National Interagency Fire Center
Wild Fire Lessons Learned Center (videos)
Technology
- Northwest Regional GAP Analysis Project
- California GAP
- Digital Spatial Data--HSU Library
- Inforain
- LIDAR
- Landfire; TNC Landfire
- LARSE
- LEMMA GNNFire; GNN mapping
- The Fuel Characteristic Classification System
- Consume software
- Conifers - a Young Stand Model
- SYSTUM - growth model
FEMA Independent Study Programs
Blacks Mountain Experimental Forest
ARTICLES/REPORTS
(includes fuels treatments in connection with wildfire)
- The potential for fire to negatively impact habitat that supports a threatened or endangered species,
- Forest Service: Information on Decisions Involving Fuels Reduction Activities (GAO)
- >Basic principles of forest fuel reduction treatments - Agee, Skinner
- Fire in the Sierra Nevada - Skinner, Stephens
- Effects of Prescribed Fire and Thinning on Wildfire Severity: The Cone Fire, Blacks Mountain Experimental Forest - Carl N. Skinner, Martin W. Ritchie, Todd Hamilton -
- Fire History of the Upper Montane and SubAlpine Glacial Basins in the Klamath Mountains - Carl Skinner
- A Tree-ring Based Fire History of Riparian Reserves in the Klamath Mountains Carl Skinner
- Spatial Patterns and Controls on Historical Fire Regimes and Forest Structure in the Klamath Mountains Taylor, Skinner
- Fire History in Riparian Reserves of the Klamath Mountains - Skinner
- An Ecological Comparison of Fire and Fire Surrogates for Reducing Wildfire Hazard and Improving Forest Health - Waeatherspoon, Skinner
- Influence of Fire on the Dynamics of Dead Woody Material in Forests of California and Southwestern Oregon - Skinner
- Postglacial vegetation and fire history, eastern Klamath Mountains, California. The Holocene 10: 587-601. Mohr, Jerry A.; Whitlock, Cathy; Skinner, Carl N.
- The use of shaded fuelbreaks in landscape fire management. Forest Ecology and Management 127: 55-66. Agee, Bahro, Berni; Finney,Mark A; Omi,Philip N; Sapsis, Skinner,Carl N; van Wagtendonk,Jan W; Weatherspoon,C Phillip (2000):
- A prospectus on restoring late-successional forest structure to eastside pine ecosystems through large-scale interdisciplinary research. Zack,Steve; Laudenslayer Jr.,William F; George,T Luke; Skinner,Carl; Oliver,William
- Sierra Nevada science review. (Report of the Science Review Team charged to synthesize new information of rangewide urgency to the national forests of the Sierra Nevada) USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station, Albany, CA. Millar, C., Lind, A., Skinner, C., Verner, J., Zielinski, W., and Ziemer, R. 1998.
- Fire history and landscape dynamics in a late-successional reserve, Klamath Mountains, California, USA. Forest Ecology and Management 111: 285-301. Taylor, Skinner
- Fire regimes and management of old growth Douglas-fir forests in the Klamath Mountains of northwestern California. In: Proceedings - Fire Effects on Threatened and Endangered Species and Habitats Conference. Nov. 13-16, 1995. Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. (Eds: Greenlee, Jason et al.) International Association of Wildland Fire, Fairfield, WA, 203-208.
- Toward understanding of fire history information. In: What is Watershed Stability? Proceedings of the Sixth Biennial Conference of the Watershed Management Council. S. Sommarstrom (editor). Water Resources Center Report No. 92. Centers for Water and Wildland Resources, University of California, Davis, 15-22. Skinner, Carl N (1997):
- Fire regimes, past and present. In: Sierra Nevada Ecosystem Project: Final report to Congress. Vol. II: Assessments and scientific basis for management options. Wildland Resources Center Publication No. 37. Centers for Water and Wildland Resources, University of California, Davis, 1041-1070. Skinner, Carl N; Chang, Chi-ru (1996):
- Landscape-level strategies for forest fuel management. In: Sierra Nevada Ecosystem Project: Final report to Congress. Vol. II: Assessments and scientific basis for management options. Wildland Resources Center Publication No. 37. Centers for Water and Wildland Resources, University of California, Davis, 1471-1492. Weatherspoon, C Phillip; Skinner, Carl N (1996):
- Plantation characteristics affecting damage from wildfire. In: Proceedings, 17th Annual Forest Vegetation Management Conference; 1996 January 16-18; Redding, CA. Redding, CA: Forest Vegetation Management Conference: 137-142. Skinner, Carl N.; Weatherspoon, C. Phillip. (1996):
- Change in spatial characteristics of forest openings in the Klamath Mountains of northwestern California, USA. Landscape Ecology 10: 219-228. Skinner, Carl N (1995):
- An assessment of factors associated with damage to tree crowns from the 1987 wildfires in northern California. Forest Science 41: 430-451. Weatherspoon, C Phillip; Skinner, Carl N (1995):
- Past climates, forests, and disturbances of the Sierra Nevada, California: understanding the past to manage for the future. Transactions of the Western Section of the Wildlife Society 31, 19-26.Laudenslayer, William F, Jr.; Skinner, Carl N (1995):
- Ponderosa pine needle length: an early indicator of release treatment effectiveness. Canandian Journal of Forest Research 22: 761-764. McDonald, Philip M; Skinner, Carl N; Fiddler, Gary O (1992):
- Comparison of charcoal and tree-ring records of recent fires in the eastern Klamath Mountains, Cathy Whitlock, Carl N. Skinner, Patrick J. Bartlein, Thomas Minckley,
and Jerry A. Mohr- Fire History and Research, Big Bar Ranger District, Northwestern Trinity County, California: Critique of Fire Suppression Practices
- Intense forest wildfire sharply reduces mineral soil C and N: the first direct evidence Bernard T. Bormann, Peter S. Homann, Robyn L. Darbyshire, and Brett A. Morrissette
- Wildfire Emissions Totaled Large area of Northern Hemisphere is affected by pollution from Alaska-Canadian blazes
- CO2 Emissions from Wildfires in the U.S.: Present Status and Future Trends Yongqiang Liu and John Stanturf (USDA Forest Service) Hanqin Tian (Auburn University) John Qu (George Mason University)
- The Forest Carbon and Emissions Model (FCEM)
- Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Four California Wildfires: Opportunities to Prevent and Reverse Environmental and Climate Impacts FCEM Report No. 2
- Impacts of California Wildfires on Climate and Forests: A Study of Seven Years of Wildfires (2001-2007) FCEM Report No. 3
- Estimates of CO2 from fires in the United States: implications for carbon management
- Towards a Collaborative Cost Management Strategy 2006 U. S. Forest Service Large Wildfire Cost Review Recommendations
- The True Cost of Wildfire in the Western U.S.
- The Wildland-Urban Interface Fire Problem A CONSEQUENCE OF THE FIRE EXCLUSION PARADIGM
- U.S. Wildfire Cost-Plus-Loss Economics Project: The One-Pager Checklist
- Fire Regimes & Fuels Carl N. Skinner
- Pre-and post-fire treatment influences on forest dynamics Rob York, Richard Harris, Joe McBride
- Forest ownership and wildfire goals and practices
- Description of pre-fire treatment options - Scott Stephens
- Scale Effects on Treatments:Parcel Scale to Landscape -Mark A. Finney
- Treatment Effects on Wildfire Behavior - Malcom North
- Ecological and Environmental Impacts of Pre-Fire Treatments - Wildlife and Wildlife Habitat - Donald Yasuda
- Environmental Impacts and Soil - Matt Busse
- Effects of Pre-fire Treatments on Watershed Functions - Lee MacDonald, Drew Coe
- Public and Private Fuel Management in the WUI and Beyond- Plumas County Michael De Lasaux
- Collaborating to Reduce Forest Fire Hazards - Mark Egbert
- Developing Key Elements to an "All Lands" Approach to Wildland Fire Concerns - Crawford Tuttle
- University of CA Pre and Post Wildfire other presentations
- Pre-and Post-Wildfire Forest Management for Ecological Restoration and Fire Resiliency Richard B. Standiford Review of Day One: Background Setting and Pre-fire Management February 9-11, 2010, Sacramento, CA
- Pre-and Post-Wildfire Conference - Chad Hanson, Ph.D.
- Wildfire Forum Feb. 9-11, 2010 Steve Brink
- Bill Keye Wildfire Forum
- Summary of the first 2 days David Graber
- Fire Intensity & Scale - Carl N. Skinner
- Effects of Wildfires on Runoff and Erosion- Lee H. MacDonald
- Pre-and Post-Wildfire Conference - Chad Hanson, Ph.D.
- Climate change, forests and fire: issues in current and future resource management in the California National ForestsHugh Safford
- U.S. Forest ServiceBurned Area Emergency Response (BAER) Program - Brent Roath
- Pros and Cons of Salvage and Restoration Operations - John Sessions
- Reforestation Options - McClellan Park
- Current Reforestation Practices and Issues on National Forests in California
- Post Wildfire Regeneration - Dan Tomascheski
- Ecological and Environmental Consequences of Post-Fire management - Wildlife and Wildlife Habitat - Donald Yasuda
- Post-Wildfire Forest Management:Soils and Soil Productivity David Young
- Effects of Different Post-Fire Treatments on Watershed Functions - Lee MacDonald
- Budget going up in smoke Sacramento Bee (California) September 17, 2006
- Assessing the Impacts of Fire and Insect Disturbances on the Terrestrial Carbon Budgets of Forested Areas in Canada, Alaska, and the Western United States
See also FORESTS