CLINTON S. WRIGHT Address Telephone Facsimile E-mail Internet U.S. Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station Pacific Wildland Fire Sciences Laboratory th 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 th burning in old-growth ponderosa pine stands in eastern Oregon. Proceedings of the 5 Symposium on Fire nd 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. th OTTMAR. 2003. The influence of weather on combustion limits in a longleaf pine forest. Proceedings of the 5 nd 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. Page 2 of 4 CLINTON S. WRIGHT 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 rd 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 rd 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. Page 3 of 4 CLINTON S. WRIGHT 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 th 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. Page 4 of 4