Second USGS Wildland Fire Workshop

Tuesday, October 31, 2000 PEACE PIPE AND KIVA ROOMS

Moderators—Stan Ponce, Senior Liaison for Science Partnerships, USGS

Russ Livingston, Program Officer, Central Region, USGS

1:00-1:10 Introductory Remarks/Announcements/etc

1:10-1:25 Welcome—Dr. Chick Keller, Los Alamos National Laboratory

1:25-1:40 Keynote Address-Tom Casadevall, Regional Director, USGS

1:40-2:00 Keynote Address-Jim Douglas, Office of Managing Risk and Public Safety, Office of the Secretary, Department of Interior

Insights on Federal and DOI Fire Policies

2:00-2:30 Break

2:30-4:30 Discussion of Customer Fire Science Needs (2 panels, each with 20 min representative remarks and followed by 20 min discussion)

Panel I

John Haugh, representative of Bureau of Land Management

Bill Leenhouts, representative of Fish and Wildlife Service

Hal Luedtke, representative of Bureau of Indian Affairs

Tom Zimmerman, representative of National Park Service

Dave Cleaves, representative of USDA Forest Service

6:00-9:00 Reception Icebreaker BANDELIER ROOM

Wednesday, November 1, 2000 PEACE PIPE AND KIVA ROOMS

Moderator—John Moody, Research Hydrologist, USGS

8:00 – 9:20 Discussion of Customer Fire Science Needs-Continued

Panel II

Pete Robichaud, representing the USFS Rocky Mountain Research Station

Bob Clark, representing the Joint Fire Science Program

Dwight Atkinson, representing Environmental Protection Agency

9:20-9:50 Break

9:50-10:20 Biologic/Ecologic Overview—Sue Grace, Research Ecologist, USGS

10:20-10:50 Cartographic/Geographic Overview—John Kelmelis, Chief Scientist for Geography, USGS

10:50-11:20 Hydrologic Overview—Julio Betancourt, Research Physical Scientist, USGS

11:20-11:50 Geologic Overview—Sue Cannon, Research Geologist, USGS

11:50-12:50 Lunch

1:00-4:00 Fieldtrip 1—Overview of fire-science issues

Host—Craig Allen, Research Ecologist, USGS

5:00-6:30 Poster session (Listing of Titles Attached) BANDELIER RM

6:30 Dinner PEACE PIPE AND KIVA ROOMS

Master of Ceremonies—Stan Coloff, Joint Fire Science Program

Governing Board Representative, USGS

Speaker, Larry Hamilton, BLM Director of the National Office of Fire and Aviation

Bridges to Build

Thursday, November 2, 2000

Moderators—Rodger Ferreira, Associate District Chief, New Mexico District

Sue Cannon, Research Geologist, USGS

8:00-10:00 Concurrent technical sessions (each with 5 presentations @20 min

and each followed by 20 min discussion)

Technical Session I—Tools and Techniques (Moderator—Rodger Ferreira) PEACE PIPE ROOM

· GeoMac Wildland Fire Support—Michael Hutt

· Rapid Update of Digital Raster Graphics for Fire Support—Jeff Sloan

· Fire Potential Index to Assess Forest Fire Hazard—Jacqueline Klaver

· A Decision Support System for Impact Analysis of Wildland Fires—George Leavesley, Steven Markstrom, and Roland Viger

Technical Session II—Post-fire Watershed Response—Physical and Biological (Moderator—Sue Cannon) KIVA ROOM

· Wildfire Flood-Hazard Research in the Rocky Mountains—Robert Jarrett and Tom Browning

· Twenty Years of Post-Fire Vegetation Development in Yellowstone National Park—Don Despain and Eric Miller

· The Effects of Fire on Avian Communities in Western Forests: General Patterns and Sources of Variation—Natasha Kotliar

· The Effects of Wildfire in the Magnitude and Frequency of Occurrence of Large Peak Flows, Bandelier National Monument, New Mexico—Jack Veenhuis (presented by Craig Allen)

· Conditions for Debris-Flow Generation from Recently Burned Watersheds—Sue Cannon

10:00-10:30 Break

10:30-12 :00 Concurrent breakout sessions

Breakout Session I—Tools and Techniques (Moderator—Rodger Ferreira; Facilitator—Linda Britton) PEACE PIPE ROOM

Breakout Session II— Post-fire Watershed Response--Physical and Biological (Moderator—Sue Cannon; Facilitator—Russ Livingston) KIVA ROOM

12:00-1:00 Lunch

1:00-5:00 Fieldtrip 2—Upper Rendija Canyon research activities

Hosts—John Moody, Research Hydrologist, USGS Deborah Martin, Research Hydrologist, USGS

Sue Cannon, Research Geologist, USGS

Friday, November 3, 2000

Moderators—Frank D’Erchia, Associate Regional Biologist, USGS

Mike Hutt, Chief of Systems Technology and Development, USGS

8:00-9:40 Concurrent technical sessions (each with 4 presentations @20 min and each followed by 20 min discussion)

Technical Session III—Post-fire Watershed Response—Chemical (Moderator—Frank D’Erchia; Facilitator—Stan Coloff) PEACE PIPE ROOM

· A Comprehensive Approach to Post-Fire Water Quality Monitoring and Decision Making— Deborah Martin

· Wildfire Hazards and Risks are More Than Debris Flows and Floods: A Big Picture Perspective--Cathy Tate

· Environmental Implications of Fire-Fighting Chemicals—Susan Finger, Steven Hamilton, Diane Larson, Barry Poulton, and Nimish Vyas

· The Biogeochemistry of Fire: Modeling and Measuring the Impact of Fire on Carbon, Nutrients, and Atmospheric Emissions—Jennifer Harden and A. David McGuire

Technical Session IV—Large-Scale Integrated Approaches (Moderator—Mike Hutt; ; Facilitator—Joan Fitzpatrick) KIVA ROOM

· Possible Fire-Science Program: Ecosystem Response to Wildfire—The Sediment Story—John Moody and Deborah Martin

· Wildfires and Climatic History—Ken Pierce, Don Despain, and Dick Jachowski

· Fire, Thresholds, and USGS: Local to Global-Scale Research Opportunities—Craig Allen

· The Wildland-Urban Human Fire Interface—The WUFI Revisited—Jonathan Taylor

9:40-11:20 Concurrent breakout sessions (including morning break@10:00)

Breakout Session III— Post-fire Watershed Response—Chemical (Moderator—Frank D’Erchia) PEACE PIPE ROOM

Breakout Session IV— Large-Scale Integrated Approaches (Moderator—Mike Hutt) KIVA ROOM

11:20-12:00 Customer priorites/Discussion/Wrapup PEACE PIPE AND KIVA ROOMS

Moderator—Joan Fitzpatrick, Deputy Regional Director

12:00-1:00 Lunch

1:00-- Ad Hoc Discussion of Future Role of USGS in Wildland Fire Science PEACE PIPE AND KIVA ROOMS

POSTER SESSION

R. Bruce Bury and Don J. Major—Fuels Management and Wildlife Habitat Relationships in the Northwest and Southeast

Robin D. Calfee and Edward E. Little—The Effects of UVB Radiation on the Toxicity of Fire-Fighting Chemicals

John Elliott and Randolph S. Parker--Developing a Recurrence Probability for Post-Fire Floods using Alluvial Stratigraphy

Robert Eppinger--Pre-Fire Baseline Stream-Sediment and Stream-Water Geochemical Data From a Recently Burned Area in Central Idaho, and Suggestions for Application of Geochemical Data to Wildfire Science

Sue Grace and Dale Wade--Ecological and Economic Consequences of the 1998 Florida Wildfires

Sandra L. Haire--A Fire Atlas for the U.S. Rocky Mountains: Phase I

Michael Hutt and Dorothy Albright--GeoMAC Wildland Fire Support

(Note: This will also be given as an oral presentation)

Carl Key and Nate Benson--(Past) Measuring and Remote Sensing of Burn Severity

(Present) Post-Fire Burn Assessment by Remote Sensing on National Park Service Lands

(Future) 2000 Wildfires of Western Montana and Northern Idaho

Jacqueline Klaver --Fire Potential Index to Assess Forest Fire Hazard

(Note: This will also be given as an oral presentation)

Raymond Kokaly, Trude King, and Laurie Morath--Application of Airborne Imaging Spectroscopy to Areas Impacted by Wildfire

Diane Larson, Westley Newton, and Patrick Anderson--Effects of Burning and Two Fire Fighting Chemicals on Terrestrial Vegetation

Jerry Leenheer, Deborah Martin,and David Rutherford—Fire-Induced Changes in Soil Organic Matter Properties that Contribute to Hydrophobic Soils

Karen Lund and Gregory Green—Geology of the Year 2000 Central Idaho Forest Fire Areas

Harry McWreath—CINDI—USGS’ Focal Point for Hazards and Disaster Information

Tom O’Shea--Post-Fire Biological Resources Research at the Cerro Grande Site: A Synopsis and Progress Report

Ken Pierce, Don Despain, and Dick Jachowski--Wildfires and Earth Surface Processes

Ralph Root and Jan vanWagtendonk --Hyperspectral Analysis of Multi-Temporal Landsat TM Data for Mapping Fuels in Yosemite National Park

Janet Slate—Use of Geology Maps Before, During and After Wildfires

Jeff Sloan--Rapid Update of Digital Raster Graphics for Fire Support

(Note: This will also be given as an oral presentation)

Jim Snyder and Holly Belles --Tree Mortality Following Three Seasons of Prescribed Burns in Unlogged South Florida Slash Pine (Pinus elliottii var. densa) Stands

Scott Waltemeyer--Paleostage Indicators Used to Estimate Discharge in the Rito de los Frijoles in Bandelier National Monument Resulting from the La Mesa Wildfire

Kimberly Wickland and Jennifer Harden--Effects of Fire on Carbon Cycling

Gary Willson and James Stubbendieck--A Burn-Based Model for Smooth Brome Management in Degraded Tallgrass Prairie

Ron Zelt--Channel Characteristics and Large Organic Debris in Adjacent Burned and Unburned Watersheds

Zhiliang Zhu, Donald Ohlen, Monte Williams and Tom Gushue--The Roles of Satellite Imagery and Mapping in Management and Recovery Process for Jasper Fire, SD