CLINTON S. WRIGHT
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U.S. Forest Service
Pacific Northwest Research Station
Pacific Wildland Fire Sciences Laboratory
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400 North 34 Street, Suite 201
Seattle, WA 98103 (USA)
(206) 732-7827
(206) 732-7801
cwright@fs.fed.us
www.fs.fed.us/pnw/fera
EDUCATION
2010
University of Washington, School of Forest Resources -- Seattle, WA
Ph.D., Forest Resources
1996
University of Washington, College of Forest Resources -- Seattle, WA
M.S., Forest Ecosystem Analysis
1991
Pomona College -- Claremont, CA
B.A., Biology
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2001 – Present
1997 – 2001
1996 – 1997
1994 – 1996
1993 – 1994
1991 – 1993
USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station
Research Forester
USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station
Forester
Duane Hartman and Associates, Inc.
Survey Party Chief
University of Washington, College of Forest Resources
Graduate Research Assistant
USDA Forest Service, Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest
Biological Science Technician
Permit/Engineering, Inc.
Environmental Technician/Survey Technician.
SCIENTIFIC INTERESTS
Fire Ecology
Fire History
Dendrochronology
Fire Effects
Fuel Characterization
Disturbance Ecology
Fire/Climate Interactions
Primary Succession
Arid Western Forests
Prescribed Fire
Ecological Restoration
Fire/Vegetation Dynamics
OTHER QUALIFICATIONS
Wildland Firefighter (S-130/S-190; FFT2) - current 2011
Intermediate Wildland Fire Behavior (S-290; 1998)
Wildland Fire Chainsaws (S-212) – certified ‘B’ faller (2011)
Member Xi Sigma Pi (Alpha Chapter), National Forestry Honor Society - since 1995
USFS - Pacific Northwest Research Station - Civil Rights Action Group representative - March 2004 to February 2006
Field research experience in a wide variety of disciplines and ecosystem types
CLINTON S. WRIGHT
COMPETITIVELY FUNDED RESEARCH
Fuel consumption and flammability thresholds in shrub-dominated ecosystems. Joint Fire Science Program (2003) $500,000
Digital photo series. Joint Fire Science Program (2004) $271,500
Estimating the biomass of hand-piled fuels for smoke management planning. Joint Fire Science Program (2007) $137,000
Does season of burning affect fuel dynamics in southeastern forests? Joint Fire Science Program (2009) $331,500
An enhanced online Piled Fuels Biomass Calculator. Joint Fire Science Program (2010) $10,000
Fire behavior and vegetation effects after mastication and cutting in encroached savannas in Texas. Joint Fire
Science Program (2010; Co-PI with Charlotte Reemts, The Nature Conservancy) $168,500
How do pile age and season of burn influence combustion and fire effects? Joint Fire Science Program (2011) $386,000
PUBLICATIONS
WRIGHT, C.S. 1996. Fire history of the Teanaway River drainage, Washington. M.S. thesis. University of
Washington, Seattle, Washington. 190 p.
WRIGHT, C.S. AND J.K. AGEE. 1998. Fire history in the east Cascade Mountains of Washington. Pages 110-117 in Fire
and wildlife in the Pacific Northwest: research, policy and management, presented by the Wildlife Society,
April 6-8, 1998, Spokane, Washington.
OTTMAR, R.D., R.E. VIHNANEK AND C.S. WRIGHT. 1999. Stereo photo series for quantifying natural fuels. Volume I:
mixed-conifer with mortality, western juniper, sagebrush and grassland types in the interior Pacific Northwest.
PMS 830. National Wildfire Coordinating Group, Interagency Fire Center, Boise, Idaho. 73 p.
OTTMAR, R.D., R.E. VIHNANEK AND C.S. WRIGHT. 2000. Stereo photo series for quantifying natural fuels. Volume III:
lodgepole pine, quaking aspen, and gambel oak ecosystem types in the Rocky Mountains. PMS 832. National
Wildfire Coordinating Group, Interagency Fire Center, Boise, Idaho. 85 p.
AGEE, J.K., C.S. WRIGHT, N. WILLIAMSON AND M.H. HUFF. 2002. Foliar moisture content of Pacific Northwest vegetation
and its relation to wildland fire behavior. Forest Ecology and Management 167: 57-66.
FERGUSON, S.A., J.E. RUTHFORD, S.J. MCKAY, D. WRIGHT, C. WRIGHT AND R. OTTMAR. 2002. Measuring moisture dynamics
to predict fire severity in longleaf pine forests. International Journal of Wildland Fire 11(4): 267-279.
OTTMAR, R.D. AND C.S. WRIGHT. 2002. Characterizing fuels in treated areas. Pages 63-73 in D.M. Baumgartner, L.R.
Johnson and E.J. DePuit (compilers and editors), Small diameter timber: resource management, manufacturing
and markets symposium proceedings, February 25-27, 2002, Spokane, Washington. Washington State
University Cooperative Extension, Pullman, Washington.
WRIGHT, C.S., R.D. OTTMAR, R.E. VIHNANEK AND D.R. WEISE. 2002. Stereo photo series for quantifying natural fuels:
grassland, shrubland, woodland, and forest types in Hawaii. USDA Forest Service, General Technical Report,
PNW-GTR-545. Pacific Northwest Research Station, Portland, Oregon. 91 p.
OTTMAR, R.D., R.E. VIHNANEK AND C.S. WRIGHT. 2003. Stereo photo series for quantifying natural fuels in the
Americas. Pages 4-6 in Using fire to control invasive plants: what’s new, what works in the Northeast?
January 24, 2003, Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
OTTMAR, R.D., R.E. VIHNANEK AND C.S. WRIGHT. 2003. Stereo photo series for quantifying natural fuels in the
Americas. Page 94 in The Restoration toolbox, Society for Ecological Restoration and Society of Wetland
Scientists Joint Regional Conference, March 24-28, 2003, Portland, Oregon.
WRIGHT, C.S., N.L. TROYER AND R.E. VIHNANEK. 2003. Monitoring fuel consumption and mortality from prescribed
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burning in old-growth ponderosa pine stands in eastern Oregon. Proceedings of the 5 Symposium on Fire
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and Forest Meteorology and the 2 International Wildland Fire Ecology and Fire Management Congress,
November 17-20, 2003, Orlando, Florida.
ANDERSON, C., S. FERGUSON, M. RORIG, K. HIERS, S. MCKAY, M. MOORE, D. OLSON, D. WRIGHT, C. WRIGHT, B. VIHNANEK AND R.
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OTTMAR. 2003. The influence of weather on combustion limits in a longleaf pine forest. Proceedings of the 5
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Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology and the 2 International Wildland Fire Ecology and Fire
Management Congress, November 17-20, 2003, Orlando, Florida. 4 p.
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OTTMAR, R.D., R.E. VIHNANEK, C.S. WRIGHT AND J.K. HIERS. 2003. Modification and validation of fuel consumption
models for use in longleaf pine types of the southeast. Page 122 in J.S. Kush (compiler), Longleaf pine: a
southern legacy rising from the ashes, Proceedings of the Fourth Longleaf Alliance Regional Conference,
November 17-20, 2002, Southern Pines, North Carolina. Longleaf Alliance Report No. 6.
OTTMAR, R.D., R.E. VIHNANEK, C.S. WRIGHT AND J.K. HIERS. 2003. Stereo photo series for quantifying natural fuels in the
Americas. Pages 123-125 in J.S. Kush (compiler), Longleaf pine: a southern legacy rising from the ashes,
Proceedings of the Fourth Longleaf Alliance Regional Conference, November 17-20, 2002, Southern Pines,
North Carolina. Longleaf Alliance Report No. 6.
OTTMAR, R.D., R.E. VIHNANEK, C.S. WRIGHT AND D.V. SANDBERG. 2004. Stereo photo series for quantifying natural fuels
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in the Americas. Proceedings of the 3 International Wildland Fire Conference and Exhibit, October 4-6, 2004,
Sydney, Australia. 11 p.
OTTMAR, R.D., R.E. VIHNANEK, C.S. WRIGHT AND D.L. OLSON. 2004. Stereo photo series for quantifying natural fuels.
Volume VII: Oregon white oak, California deciduous oak, and mixed-conifer with shrub types in the western
United States. PMS 839. National Wildfire Coordinating Group, Interagency Fire Center, Boise, Idaho. 75 p.
WRIGHT, C.S. AND J.K. AGEE. 2004. Fire and vegetation history in the eastern Cascade Mountains, Washington.
Ecological Applications 14(2): 443-459.
OTTMAR, R.D., R.E. VIHNANEK AND C.S. WRIGHT. 2006. Stereo photo series for quantifying natural fuels. Volume VIII:
hardwood, pitch pine, and red spruce/balsam fir types in the northeastern United States. PMS 840. National
Wildfire Coordinating Group, Interagency Fire Center, Boise, Idaho. 89 p.
WRIGHT, C.S. AND S.J. PRICHARD. 2006. Biomass consumption in big sage ecosystems. Pages 489-500 in P.L. Andrews
and B.W. Butler (editors), Fuels management - how to measure success: conference proceedings. March 2830, 2006, Portland, Oregon. USDA Forest Service, Proceedings, RMRS-P-41. Rocky Mountain Research Station,
Fort Collins, Colorado.
PRICHARD, S.J., C.S. WRIGHT, R.E. VIHNANEK AND R.D. OTTMAR. 2006. Predicting forest floor and woody fuel
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consumption from prescribed burns in ponderosa pine forests. Proceedings of the 3 International Fire
Ecology and Management Congress, November 13-17, 2006, San Diego, California. 3 p.
OTTMAR, R.D., R.E. VIHNANEK AND C.S. WRIGHT. 2007. Stereo photo series for quantifying natural fuels. Volume X:
sagebrush with grass and ponderosa pine-juniper types in central Montana. USDA Forest Service, General
Technical Report, PNW-GTR-719. Pacific Northwest Research Station, Portland, Oregon. 59 p.
WRIGHT, C.S., R.E. VIHNANEK, E. ALVARADO, J.E. MORFÍN-RÍOS, E.J. JARDEL-PELÁEZ, A. NÁJERA-DÍAZ AND C.B. EDMINSTER. 2007.
Natural fuels photo series for the borderlands and Mexico. Pages 134-136 in Sixth conference on research and
resource management in the southwestern deserts: borders, boundaries and timescales, May 2-5, 2006,
Tucson, Arizona.
OTTMAR, R.D., R.E. VIHNANEK AND C.S. WRIGHT. 2007. Stereo photo series for quantifying natural fuels. Volume X:
sagebrush with grass and ponderosa pine-juniper types in central Montana. USDA Forest Service, General
Technical Report, PNW-GTR-719. Pacific Northwest Research Station, Portland, Oregon. 59 p.
OTTMAR, R.D. , R.E. VIHNANEK, C.S. WRIGHT AND G.B. SEYMOUR. 2007. Stereo photo series for quantifying natural fuels.
Volume IX: oak/juniper types in Arizona and New Mexico. USDA Forest Service, General Technical Report,
PNW-GTR-714. Pacific Northwest Research Station, Portland, Oregon. 41 p.
ALVARADO-CELESTINO, E., J.E. MORFÍN-RÍOS, E.J. JARDEL-PELÁEZ, R.E. VIHNANEK, D.K. WRIGHT, J.M. MICHEL-FUENTES, C.S.
WRIGHT, R.D. OTTMAR, D.V. SANDBERG, AND A. NÁJERA-DÍAZ. 2008. Photo series for quantifying forest fuels in
Mexico: montane subtropical forests of the Sierra Madre del Sur; and temperate forests and montane
shrubland of the northern Sierra Madre Oriental. Special Publication No. 1, University of Washington, College
of Forest Resources, Seattle, Washington. 98 p.
OTTMAR, R.D., R.E. VIHNANEK AND C.S. WRIGHT. 2008. Stereo photo series for quantifying natural fuels in the
Americas. Page 189 in M.G. Narog (technical coordinator), 2002 Fire conference: managing fire and fuels in
the remaining wildlands and open spaces of the southwestern United States, December 2-5, 2002, San Diego,
California. USDA Forest Service, General Technical Report, PSW-GTR-189. Pacific Southwest Research Station,
Albany, California.
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WRIGHT, C.S. AND R.D. OTTMAR. 2008. Fuel consumption during prescribed fires in big sagebrush ecosystems. Page
363 in M.G. Narog (technical coordinator), 2002 Fire conference: managing fire and fuels in the remaining
wildlands and open spaces of the southwestern United States, December 2-5, 2002, San Diego, California.
USDA Forest Service, General Technical Report, PSW-GTR-189. Pacific Southwest Research Station, Albany,
California.
OTTMAR, R.D., J.D. MCIVER, C.S. WRIGHT AND S.J. PRICHARD. 2008. Assessing post-fire logging effectiveness in reducing
fire hazard. Pages 63-64 in Pacific coast fire conference: changing fire regimes, goals and ecosystems,
December 1-4, 2008, San Diego, California.
WRIGHT, C.S., J.W. KELLY, J. RESTAINO AND K.W. JACOBSON. 2008. Methods for quantifying fuel consumption and fire
intensity during a chaparral wildfire. Page 112 in Pacific coast fire conference: changing fire regimes, goals
and ecosystems, December 1-4, 2008, San Diego, California.
WRIGHT, C.S., J. RESTAINO, J.W. KELLY AND K.W. JACOBSON. 2008. Fuel structure of three southern California chaparral
species. Pages 112-113 in Pacific coast fire conference: changing fire regimes, goals and ecosystems,
December 1-4, 2008, San Diego, California.
YOUNGBLOOD, A., C.S. WRIGHT, R.D. OTTMAR AND J.D. MCIVER. 2008. Changes in fuelbed characteristics and resulting
fire potentials after fuel reduction treatments in dry forests of the Blue Mountains, northeastern Oregon.
Forest Ecology and Management 255: 3151-3169.
HUDAK, A.T., A.M.S. SMITH, R.D. OTTMAR, R. VIHNANEK, C. WRIGHT AND K. HIERS. 2009. Relationship between fuels and
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fire effects on the Rx-CADRE prescribed fires. Fire Ecology and Management, Fire as a global process, 4
International Fire Congress, November 30-December 4, 2009, Savannah, Georgia.
OTTMAR, R.D., C.S. WRIGHT AND S.J. PRICHARD. 2009. A suite of fire, fuels, and smoke management tools. Fire
Management Today 69(2): 34-39.
VIHNANEK, R.E., C.S. BALOG, C.S. WRIGHT, R.D. OTTMAR AND J.W. KELLY. 2009. Stereo photo series for quantifying natural
fuels. Volume XII: post-hurricane fuels in forests of the southeast United States. USDA Forest Service, General
Technical Report, PNW-GTR-803. Pacific Northwest Research Station, Portland, Oregon. 53 p.
WRIGHT, C.S. 2010. Effects of disturbance and fuelbed succession on spatial patterns of fuel, fire hazard, and
carbon; and fuel consumption in shrub-dominated ecosystems. Ph.D. dissertation. University of Washington,
Seattle, Washington. 216 p.
WRIGHT, C.S., C.S. BALOG AND J.W. KELLY. 2010. Estimating volume, biomass, and potential emissions of hand-piled
fuels. USDA Forest Service, General Technical Report, PNW-GTR-805. Pacific Northwest Research Station ,
Portland, Oregon. 23 p.
WRIGHT, C.S., R.D. OTTMAR AND R.E. VIHNANEK. 2010. Critique of Sikkink and Keane’s comparison of surface fuel
sampling techniques. International Journal of Wildland Fire 19: 374-376.
WRIGHT, C.S., P.C. EAGLE AND C.S. BALOG. 2010. Characterizing hand-piled fuels. Fire Management Today 70(3): 1618.
WRIGHT, C.S., P.C. EAGLE AND D.L. OLSON. 2010. A high-quality fuels database of photos and information. Fire
Management Today 70(3): 27-31.
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