Human
Dimensions of Wildland Fire
Hilton, Fort Collins, CO
October 23-25, 2007 |
| MONDAY,
October 22, 2007 |
| 6:00 -9:00 pm |
Registration
Desk Opens |
| TUESDAY,
October 23, 2007 |
7:00 |
Registration
Desk Opens |
| 7:00
- 8:00 |
Continental
Breakfast |
| 8:00 |
Opening Remarks
Chuck Bushey,President, International Association of Wildland
Fire
Rich Homann, Representative of the Interior West Fire Council
Daniel R. Williams, Co-chair of the Human Dimensions Planning
Committee |
| 8:20-
8:50 |
Welcome
Address
Dave Cleaves, Director, Rocky Mountain Research Station (RMRS)
USDA Forest Service, Research and Development |
| 8:50
- 9:20 |
"Burning
Questions" - How we got there
Rick
Gale, Chief of Fire, Aviation, and Emergency Response (retired),
National Park Service
|
| 9:20-9:50 |
Facilitating Appropriate Management
Response in the 2007 Wildfire Season: AMR if it was easy it
would be called Suppression
Marc Rounsaville, Deputy Director, Emergency Operations, U.S.
Forest Service |
| 9:50
-10:20 |
BREAK
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Tools-
Planning
|
Special
Session
FireSmart-ForestWise: Engaging Citizens In Risk Mitigation In
Canada |
Special
Session
Wildfire Risk: Human Perceptions And Management Implications
|
| 10:20-10:40
|
Integrating
Ecological and Housing Development Simulations to Forecast
Fire Disturbances
Susan I. Stewart, Northern Research Station, USDA Forest Service,
Evanston, IL |
Getting
the Public On Board in the Wildland/Urban Interface: Effective
Tools for Fire
Protection Officers
Alan Westhaver, Vegetation/Fire Specialist - Parks Canada, Jasper
National Park |
Managing
Risk with
Chance-Constrained Programming
Brian Kent, USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station,
Ft. Collins, CO |
| 10:40
- 11:00 |
Lessons
from the Australian Interface – reconciling wildfire risk with
biodiversity conservation objectives
Owen Gooding, Land Use Planning Coordinator, Country Fire Authority
Victoria, Australia |
Non-traditional
approaches for involving audiences in understanding and supporting
a fuel modification project in a national park
Kim Weir, Fire Communication Specialist, Jasper National Park
|
Making
the Decision to Mitigate Risk
Carol Raish, USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station,
Albuquerque, NM |
| 11
- 11:20 |
Mechanisms
for Implementing Fire Hazard Reduction in the American West
Cassandra Moseley , University of Oregon, Eugene, OR |
Factors
that Influence Citizen Engagement in the FireSmart-ForestWise
Community Protection and Forest Restoration Project: Citizen
and Community Characteristics
Bonnie McFarlane , Canadian Forest Service, Edmonton, Alberta,
Canada |
Addressing
the Mitigation Paradox: Wildfire Mitigation Responses in Arizona
and
New Mexico
Toddi A. Steelman, North Carolina State University, Raleigh,
NC |
| 11:20-11:40
|
The
Perils and Promise of Using NEPA to Develop Fire Management
Plans on the
National Forests
Timothy Ingalsbee, Ph.D., Firefighters United for Safety, Ethics,
and Ecology, Eugene, OR |
Factors
that Influence Citizen Engagement in the FireSmart-ForestWise
Community Protection and Forest Restoration Project: Program
Characteristics
Bonnie McFarlane, Canadian Forest Service, Edmonton, Alberta,
Canada |
Wildland-Urban
Interface Residents'
Views on Risk and Attribution
Dan Williams , USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research
Station, Ft. Collins, CO |
| 11:40
- 12:00 |
The impact of human
activity on forest fire occurrence in the province of Ontario
David L. Martell, Faculty of Forestry,
University of Toronto |
Discussion
|
Diversity
in southwesterners' Views of Forest Service Fire Management
Pat Winter , USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research
Station, Riverside, CA |
| 12:00
- 1:20 |
LUNCH
(Provided) |
|
|
Special
Session
Organizational Learning In Wildland Fire: A Vision For The Next
Five Years |
Community
Impacts |
Risk
Reduction Programs |
| 1:20-1:40
|
Building Foundational
Wildland Fire Relationships for a Learning Culture
Paula Nasiatka and Dave Christenson , Lessons Learned Center
Managers |
Resilience
to, and recovery from, wildland fires in New Zealand: a research
beginning
E.R. (Lisa) Langer , Ensis, Christchurch, New Zealand |
Homeowner implementation
of fuel treatments: a longitudinal analysis of factors contributing
to adoption and maintenance
Bruce Shindler , Oregon State University, OR |
| 1:40
- 2:00 |
Assessing Organizational
Learning – A Comprehensive Survey to Aid the Wildland Fire Profession
Francesca Gino , Visiting Assistant Professor, Organizational
Behavior and Theory, Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon
University |
Restoring Fire-Adapted
Ecosystems: Linking Treatment Types, Work Mechanisms, Capacity,
and Outcomes
Susan Charnley , USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research
Station |
An Analysis of WUI
Residents' Defensible
Space Attitudes and Behaviors
James Absher, Ph.D, Research Social Scientist, USDA Forest Service,
Riverside, CA |
| 2
- 2:20 |
Assessing High Reliability
Organizing in
Wildland Fire
Anne Black, Social Scientist/Ecologist, Aldo Leopold Wilderness
Research Institute |
Utililizing Ecosystem
Service Values to Assess the Benefits of the CA Bureau of Land
Management Community Assistance and Hazardous Fuels Programs
David J. Ganz, Ph.D. , TSS Consultants, Oakland, CA |
Homeowner response
to wildfire hazard mitigation programs and incentives
Christine Vogt , MSU, E. Lansing, MI |
| 2:20-2:40
|
Using Wildland Fire
Deep Smarts as An Organizational Learning Tool
Dave Thomas, Renoveling, Ogden, UT. Consultant, Wildland Fire
Lessons Learned Center, Tucson, AZ; Research Associate, Aldo
Leopold Wilderness Research Institute, Missoula, MT |
After the Fire: Local Residents' Perceptions of Post-Fire Forest
Restoration
Robert L. Ryan and Elisabeth Hamin ,
Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning,
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
|
State and Local Wildfire
Risk Reduction Programs:Strategies to Protect Wildland-Urban
Interface Communities
Terry K. Haines , US Forest Service, Covington, LA |
| 2:40
- 3:20 |
BREAK
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|
|
Sensemaking
and Decisions |
Special
Session
CWPP: Collaborative Capacity Planning: Comparative Case Studies
|
Risk
Perception & Mitigation: It's not just about fire |
| 3:20-3:40
|
Safety First? -- Or
Put It Out? Organizational Culture, Risky Behaviors, and Decisions
Affecting Wildland Firefighters' Safety: A Review and Synthesis
of Recent Literature
Chuck Harris, University of Idaho |
Community
Wildfire Protection Plans: Enhancing Collaboration and Building
Social Capacity—Project Overview
Pamela Jakes , USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station,
St. Paul, MN |
Situating Risk Perceptions
of Forest Fire within a Broader Context of Forest Health Disturbance
in Colorado
Courtney Flint , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
Urbana, IL |
| 3:40
- 4:00 |
The clock time as
the Procust's bed in the Cramer Investigation Report
Elena Gabor , Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN |
Defining
the wildland-urban interface: how local government becomes a
partner at the table in community wildfire planning
Stephanie Grayzeck, Natural Resources Science and Management
Program, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN |
Managing for Wildland
Fire on Family Forest Lands in Eastern Oregon
Paige Fischer , Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR |
| 4
- 4:20 |
Sensemaking, Decision
Gates, and Linear Thinking in an Exponential Environment - Lessons
from the Cramer Fire
Kelly R. Close , Poudre Fire Authority |
Social
Learning, science and the creation of communities of understanding
in Community Wildfire Protection Planning
Rachel F. Brummel , Conservation Biology Program, University
of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN |
Wildfire risk perception
and climate change: The influence on homeowner mitigation behavior
in the wildland-urban interface
Stacey L. Schulte , University of Colorado, College of Architecture
and Planning, Land Use Futures Lab
|
| 4:20-4:40 |
Levinas on the Fireline:
Recovering an "Ethic of the Other" in Stakeholder
Reactions to Fatal Accidents and Close Calls in Wildland Firefighting
Christopher S. Roberts, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
|
Bridging
the Federal Local Divide: Governmental Collaboration in the
Development of Community Wildfire Protection Plans
William E. Fleeger , Department of Natural Resources, University
of New Hampshire, Durham, NH |
Wisconsin
Wildfire Perceptions Survey
Jolene Ackerman , Wisconsin DNR, Madison, WI and Sarah McCaffrey,
USDA Forest Service, Evanston, IL |
| 4:40 - 5:00
|
Firefighters' Experiences
Of Comfort Level With Decision-Making In Wildland Firefighting:
Implications for Fire Management and Policies
Alexis Lewis, University of Idaho |
The
Development of Intermediary Roles in Community Wildfire Protection
Planning
Emily Saeli , Dept. of Forest, Rangeland, and Watershed Stewardship,
Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO |
Is Fire on the Radar
Screen? A Comparative Analysis of Wildfire Perception in the
USFS's Northeast Region
Jason S. Gordon, Penn State University, University Park, PA
|
| 5:00 - 6:00 |
Break for Dinner |
| 6:00-8:00 |
POSTER
SESSION & EXHIBITOR RECEPTION- Refreshments |
| Wednesday,
October 24, 2007 |
| 7:00 - 8:30
|
Continental
Breakfast |
| 8:30-9:30 |
Wildfire
Issues from the Natural Hazards Perspective
Kathleen
Tierney, Director, Natural Hazards Center
|
| 9:30-10:00
|
BREAK
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| |
Using
Science to Improve Fire & Fuels Management |
Communication
|
Economics
Effects Of Wildfire Events And Policy |
| 10 - 10:20
|
Personal and organizational
influences to the use of fire and fuels research by federal
agency managers
Vita Wright, Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute, Missoula,
MT |
Just Blowing Smoke?
Residents' Symbolic Meanings of Wildland Fire Communication
Matt Carroll, Department of Natural Resource Sciences, Washington
State University |
Wildland
arson and other crimes: co-determination and long-run temporal
dynamics
Jeffrey Prestemon, USFS-Southern Research Station, RTP, NC |
| 10:20-10:40
|
The Coert duBois Center
for Individual & Organizational Effectiveness
James M. Saveland , U.S. Forest Service - RMRS, Fort Collins,
CO |
What's Happening?
- An Australian perspective on keeping the community informed
during major wildfires
Alan Rhodes, CFA/RMIT, Victoria, Australia |
Factors affecting
Fire Suppression Costs as identified by the Incident Management
Team
Krista Gebert , USDA FS, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Missoula,
MT |
| 10:40 - 11:00
|
Learning from Wilderness
Fire Managers: Knowledge Management to Improve Wildland Fire
Use Operations
David Thomas , Consultant, Renoveling, Ogden, UT |
The Front Range Fuels
Treatment Partnership: Congruence and Contradiction in a 'Circuit
of Culture'
Joseph G. Champ , Colorado State University |
Investigating
National Fire Plan Implementation in Northern New Mexico
Curt Shepherd , Department of Economics, University of New Mexico,
Albuquerque, NM |
| 11 - 11:20
|
Public preferences
and expectations of fire management during a wildfire
Sarah McCaffrey, Northern Research Station, USDA Forest Service,
Evanston, IL |
Understanding Obstacles
to Firewise Implementation
James Absher, Ph.D , Research Social Scientist, USDA Forest
Service, Riverside, CA |
Health and Economic
Impact of Wildfires: Literature Review
Ikuho Kochi , Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO |
| 11:20-11:40
|
Adopting Firewise
Communities/USA: People Working Together
Michele Steinberg , Firewise Communities, Quincy, MA |
Community Involvement
in Forest and Wildland Fire Management
Durgadas Mukhopadhyay ,Delhi University, Noida, India |
The Role of Passive
Lost Values in the Assessment of Total Economic Damages caused
by recent Wildfires in Galicia (Spain)
Maria Loureiro , U. Santiago Compostela, Spain |
| 11:40 - 1:20
|
LUNCH
(Provided) |
| |
Organizational
Learning & Change |
Special
Session
Community Response During Wildfire: The Australian “Stay Or
Go' Approach |
Special
Session: Economics Of Mitigating Wildfire Risk |
| 1:20-1:40 |
Facilitated Learning
Analysis: Reinforcing High Reliability by Taking a Hard Look
at Near Miss Within the Wildland Fire Community
Paul G. Chamberlin, USFWS, Northern Rockies Fire Operations
Safety, Aerial Fire Depot, Missoula, MT |
Stay or Go - The Evidence
base for the approach
John Handmer, RMIT, University/Bushfire CRC, Melbourne, Victoria
Australia |
Economics of fuel
treatment and cost sharing for private timberland owners
Robert Haight, USDA Forest Service Northern Research Station,
St. Paul, MN |
| 1:40 - 2:00
|
Beyond Active Failures
and Latent Conditions: Using Organizational Communication to
Repair a Popular Accident Causation Model for Wildland Firefighting
and other High Risk Industries
Rebekah L. Fox, Purdue University, Lafayette, IN |
Factors Infuencing
the Decision to 'Stay or Go'
Alan Rhodes, CFA/RMIT, Victoria, Australia |
|
| 2 - 2:20 |
The U.S. Fire Learning
Network
Bruce Goldstein , Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, CA
|
Applying Australia's
Stay or Go Approach in the U.S. Would it work?
Sarah McCaffrey , Northern Research Station, US Forest Service,
Evanston, IL |
Protect Thy Neighbor:
Investigating the Spatial Externalities of Community Wildfire
Hazard Mitigation
Geoffrey Donovan , USDA Forest Service, Portland, OR |
| 2:20-2:40 |
The Structuration
of Dysfunction: Opportunities to Change Enduring Organizational
Problems
Elizabeth Williams , Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN |
Perspectives of a
Firefighter and Community Member
Tony Jarrett, Hazelbrook Rural Fire Brigade, New South Wales
Rural Fire Service, Australia |
Willingness To Pay
Function For Two Fuel Treatments To Reduce Wildfire Acreage
Burned: A Scope Test and Comparison of White and Hispanic Households
John Loomis , Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO |
| 2:40 - 3:20
|
BREAK
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| |
Org
& Crew Leadership |
Special
Session
People, Fire, And Forests: Synthesis Of Social Science Research
|
Special
Session
Nonmarket Valuation And Wildfire |
| 3:20-3:40 |
Understanding and
Developing Tomorrow's Fire Managers: From ‘Keeper of the Flame'
to ‘Fire-fighter' to ‘Fire-warrior'
Anne Black, Social Scientist/Ecologist, Aldo Leopold Wilderness
Research Institute |
Public
Perceptions and Acceptance
Carol Raish, Rocky Mountain Research Station |
Homebuyers and Wildfire
Risk
Patricia Champ, US Forest Service, RMRS, Fort Collins, CO and
Chris Barth, Colorado Springs Fire Dept., Colorado Springs,
CO |
| 3:40 - 4:00
|
Crew Cohesion, Leaders'
Work Practices, and Entrapment Avoidance
Leslie Anderson; Jon Driessen; Lisa Outka-Perkins , US Forest
Service, Missoula, MT |
Community Perspectives
Matt Carroll, Department of Natural Resource Sciences, Washington
State University and Patricia Cohn , Washington State University
|
Do
Repeated Wildfires Change Homebuyers' Demand for Homes in High-Risk
Areas? A Hedonic Analysis of the Short and Long-Term Effects
of Repeated Wildfires on House Prices in Southern California
John Loomis , Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO |
| 4 - 4:20 |
Making Sense of the
Fire Environment(s): Applying Mode Confusion to Understand Failed
Organizational Change in Transition Fires
Kristine Clancy , Purude University, West Lafayette, IN |
Market and Political
Institutions
Cassandra Moseley, Ecosystem Workforce Program, University of
Oregon |
Social Value of Environmental
Amenities at Risk from Wildfire and Fuel Treatments in the WUI
in Northwest Montana
Kyle Stetler, Graduate Research Assistant, Department of Forest
Management, College of Forestry and Conservation,The University
of Montana, Missoula, MT |
| 4:20-4:40 |
But Are We Making
a Difference? Evaluating the L-380 Leadership Training
Michael T. DeGrosky , Guidance Group, Inc., Wisdom, MT |
Matrix Approach &
Conclusions
Courtney Flint, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
Urbana, IL and Al Luloff , The Pennsylvania State University
|
Revealed Preference
Analysis of Wilderness Demand and Impacts of Wildfire on Recreation
Thomas P. Holmes, Ph.D. , Forestry Sciences Lab, Southern Research
Station, USDA Forest Service, Research Triangle Park, NC |
| 4:40 - 5:00
|
What Does it Mean
to Communicate Intent? Examining Auftragstaktik and its impact
on leadership and doctrine in wildland firefighting
Jennifer A. Ziegler, Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, IN and
Michael T. DeGrosky, The Guidance Group, Wisdom, MT |
Discussion - People,
Fire and Forests: Synthesis of Social Science Research
Terry C. Daniel, University of Arizona
|
The Link between Perceived
and Actual Wildfire Danger: An Economic and Spatial Analysis
Study in Colorado (USA)
Pamela Kaval , University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
|
| 5:00 - 7:00 |
Break for Dinner |
| 7:00 - 8:30
|
Wildland Fire Lessons Learned
Center: Stakeholder Outreach on Strategy
Paula Nasiatka, Lessons Learned Center Manager and Michael T.
DeGrosky , Guidance Group, Inc., Wisdom, MT |
Dialogue on Firefighter Safety
Anne Black, Social Scientist/Ecologist, Aldo Leopold Wilderness
Research Institute and James M. Saveland , U.S. Forest Service
- RMRS, Fort Collins, CO |
|
| Thursday,
October 25, 2007 |
| 7:00 - 8:30
|
Continental
Breakfast |
| 8:30-9:30 |
World
Leaders in Risk Management: Developing an Action-Research
Agenda
Jim Saveland, Program Manager for Social, Economic, &
Decision Sciences, Rocky Mountain Research Station
|
| 9:30-10:00
|
BREAK
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| |
Tools
for Organizational Effectiveness |
Outreach/Education
Programs |
Special
Session
Managing The Impacts Of Smoke From Wildland Fires: Identifying
Our Gaps In Understanding Between The Physical And Social Sciences
|
| 10 - 10:20
|
The Emergent Culture
of Safety Tools: Applying Signal Detection Theory to Assess
the Culture of Fire Shelter Use in Wildland Firefighting
Jennifer A. Ziegler, Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, IN |
Landscape Aesthetics
and Environmental Education: Wildfire Management in the Wildland
Urban Fringe of the Northeastern U.S.
Robert L. Ryan, Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional
Planning, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA |
Investigation
of the Properties of Smoke from Wildland Fires: The Relationship
to Visual Impacts of Smoke
Christian M. Carrico , Colorado State University, Fort Collins,
CO |
| 10:20-10:40
|
Wildland Fire Decision
Support Systems and the Rapid Assessment of Values at Risk Model
Krista Gebert , USDA FS, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Missoula,
MT |
Community education
and preparedness
for wildfire
Lisa Sturzenegger, CFA, Victoria, Australia |
The
Potential Health Effects of Smoke from Wildland Fires: Acute
and Long-term Impacts on Wildland Fire Fighters and the General
Public
Jennifer Peel, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO |
| 10:40 - 11:00
|
A 5th Slice of Swiss
Cheese: The Command Concept in Wildland Firefighting
Kent Maxwell, Colorado Firecamp / Chaffee County Fire Protecton
District, Salida, CO |
Wildfire education and community preparedness: new evidence
from Australia and Portugal
Fantina Pedrosa , Faculty of Arts of University of Porto, Portugal
|
Modeling
the economic impacts of wildfire smoke on human health in Alberta
Robert Field, Department of Physics, University of Toronto,
Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| 11 - 11:20
|
Questioning the Normative
Approach to Wildfire Management Decisions: The Malleability
of Acceptability Standards
Robert Jakubowski, Colorado State University, Fort Collins,
CO |
Facts about fire-
increasing public awareness and support of prescribed burning
through the Fire in Florida's Ecosystems Program
Christine Denny, Florida Division of Forestry's Fire in Florida's
Ecosystems program & Pandion Systems, Inc., Gainesville,
FL |
Valuing
the Health Effects of a Prescribed Fire - Add from Wildfire
Risk Presentation?
Wade E. Martin, California State University, Long Beach, CA
|
| 11:20
- 12:10 |
Closing
Comments
Dave Thomas, Renoveling, Ogden, UT. Consultant, Wildland Fire
Lessons Learned Center, Tucson, AZ; Research Associate, Aldo
Leopold Wilderness Research Institute, Missoula, MT |
Program