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International Association of Wildland Fire
Facilitating communication and providing leadership for the wildlife fire community.
3RD F I RE BE HAVI OR AND F UE L S CONF ERENCE
Beyond Fire Behavior and Fuels:
Learning from the Past to Help Guide Us in the Future
Red Lion Hotel at the Park – Spokane, Washington, USA, October 25-29, 2010
Event Sponsors
The War Eagle Mine in northern Idaho where Ranger Edward Pulaski and his crew of 42 men rode out
the “Big Blowup” of August 20-21, 1910. Note standing person in lower right-hand corner. USFS photo.
What Can You Expect from this Conference?
A highly educational/engaging and entertaining week featuring selected
keynote addresses, numerous plenary, concurrent, and poster presentations,
several panel discussions, educational and training workshop opportunities,
vendor exhibits/displays, and other special sessions (e.g., film festival,
field trips).
Objectives
• To create a forum where audience members can integrate with
presenters across disciplines.
• To reflect on lessons learned from the past as we implement innovative
and contemporary fuels management programs designed to reduce
risks to communities and to improve and maintain ecosystem health.
• To provide current fire environment trends as context for benchmarking
lessons learned against future challenges and increased risk to
communities.
• To raise awareness of the diversity of approaches, issues and ideas in
wildland fire management.
• Develop innovative ideas for management and research.
• To foster new collaborations between managers and researchers and
between groups in different regions and countries.
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Pre-Conference Workshop Schedule
MONDAY MORNING, October 25th, 8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Workshop 1 ..................................................................................................................
Suit of Fuel Management Tools: Fuel Characteristics Classification System,
National Fuels Photo Series, Digital Photo Series and Consume 3.0
Instructor(s): Roger Ottmar and Susan Prichard, Pacific Wildland Fire Science Lab,
Seattle, WA
Workshop 2 ..................................................................................................................
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Instructor(s):Charley Martin, BLM, Medford, OR
Workshop 3 ..................................................................................................................
Interagency Fuels Treatment Decision Support System (IFT-DSS)
Instructor(s): Stacy Drury, Sonoma Technology, Inc. Petaluma, CA
Workshop 4 ..................................................................................................................
Arc Fuels
Instructor(s): Alan Ager and Nicole Vaillant, Western Wildlands Environmental
Threat Assessment Center (WWETAC) Prineville, Oregon
Workshop 5 ..................................................................................................................
Incident Applications of Google Earth
Instructor(s): William Phillips, Missoula Smokejumpers, Missoula, MT
Workshop 6 ..................................................................................................................
Wildland Fire Assessment Tool (WFAT)
Instructor(s): Dale A. Hamilton and Jeffrey L. Jones, Systems for Environmental
Management, Missoula, MT
MONDAY AFTERNOON, October 25th, 1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
Workshop 7 ..................................................................................................................
Smoke and Air Quality Management Tools Training
Instructor(s): Sim Larkin, Tara Strand, Miriam Rorig, Candace Krull, Robert
Solomon, Pacific Wildland Fire Science Lab, Seattle, WA
Workshop 8 ..................................................................................................................
Wind Ninja
Instructor(s): Jason Forthofer, Bret Butler, Kyle Shannon, Missoula Fire Sciences
Lab, Missoula, MT
Workshop 9 ..................................................................................................................
Fire Regime Condition Class: Concepts, Methods, and Applications
Instructor(s): Stephen W. Barrett and Doug Havlina, National Interagency Fuels
Technology Team, Kalispell, MT
Workshop 10 ................................................................................................................
"Rabbit Rules" – An Application of Stephen Wolfram’s “New Kind of Science”
to Fire Spread Modeling
Instructor(s): Gary Achtemeier, Forest Service, Athens, GA
Workshop 11 ................................................................................................................
Potential Rate of Spread (PROS) Risk Assessment Process
Instructor(s): Tom Leuschen, FireVision, Twisp, WA. 509-997-5052
Workshop 12 ................................................................................................................
Using the Fireline Assessment Method (FLAME), A Process for Integrating
Fireline Observations with Anticipated Changes in the Fire Environment to
Assess Expected Fire Behavior.
Instructor(s): Jim Bishop, FBAN and Robert Ziel FBAN/LTAN
Target Audience
• Firefighters
• Fire and Land Managers
• Researchers and Scientists
• Resource Professionals
and Specialists
• Fire Management Consultants
• Agency Fire Administrators
• Public Officials
• Academic Professors and Instructors
• University and College Students
• Members of the General Public
• Members of the Media
• Anyone who has a vested interest in
dealing with wildland fire in the future
Event Format
• Monday
Educational and training workshops
• Monday Evening
Ice Breaker Reception &
Exhibitor Displays
• Tuesday, Wednesday
and Thursday
Combination of Plenary, Oral, and
Poster Sessions
• Tuesday Evening
Film Festival
• Wednesday Evening Conference Banquet &
Award Ceremonies
• Friday
Post-Conference Field Trips planned
Featured Speakers
• Steve Pyne
• Karen Cerulo
• Johnny Stowe
• Jim Agee
• Mike Dietrich
• Roger Underwood
• Jim Steele
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International Association of Wildland Fire
Facilitating communication and providing leadership for the wildlife fire community.
3RD F I RE BE HAVI OR AND F UE L S CONF ERENCE
The International
Association of
Wildland Fire is
committed to
minimizing the
environmental impact of
its conferences and meeting through:
• Reducing the amount of solid waste
produced by the event;
• Reducing energy and water
consumption at the event;
• Minimizing or off-setting harmful
emissions resulting from vehicular
transportation and energy consumption associated with the event;
• Disposing of solid and liquid waste
in an environmentally responsible
manner;
• Selecting facilities who have
developed a sustainability policy;
• Buying environmentally aware
products; and
• Educating participants and
exhibitors.
We invite our conference participants
and vendors to join us in this goal of incorporating environmentally responsible procedures and practices and in
the use of environmentally responsible
products while participating in this conference. Working together, we can
make this a successful 'Green' event.
Please remind yourself and help
others to remember to reduce, reuse,
and recycle!
Experimental crown fire in a mixed jack pine-black spruce fuel comples, Northwest Territories, Canada.
Canadian Forest Service photo.
The first two IAWF Fire Behavior and Fuels Conferences held in 2006
(Portland, OR) and in 2007 (Destin, FL) presented valuable opportunities for
sharing information about wildland fire globally. The third installment in this
special series holds the same potential.
The 1910 fires in the Northern Rocky Mountains were a precedent setting
event and have since had far-reaching implications on how the wildland fire
community and society as a whole views and deals with wildland fires
regionally, nationally and internationally. It seems only fitting that on the 100th
anniversary of this historic event we reflect on lessons learned from the past
as we implement innovative and contemporary best practices with managing wildland fires in the future.
The conference will feature some 90 oral presentations and an approximately
equal number of poster presentations on virtually every aspect of wildland
fire research and operational experiences related to the themes of this
conference and the conference series in general. This will include contributions related to the physical, biological, and social sciences, was well as
from the field of economics.
“Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.”
– George Santayana (1906)
The International Association of Wildland Fire is proud to partner
with the International Fire Relief Mission whose mission is to provide
life-saving assistance to active-duty firefighters and rescue
personnel in countries lacking adequate education or equipment;
provide specialized demonstrations on using donated fire and
rescue equipment in accordance with internationally recognized standards;
and ensure successful, long-term assistance by developing international
partnerships and collaborations for continued support, preparation and
accountability at the receiving country.
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Banquet Entertainment
Film Festival
The film festival will include the presentation of "Countdown to Calamity", which
chronicles the infamous 1970 fire season
in Southern California as well as "Up in
Flames: A History of Fire Fighting in the Forest" produced
by the Forest History Society.
Registration
To register visit the conference website at www.iawfonline.org/spokane2010.
The following registration rates apply:
Student Member Registration ..............................................................$175
The Wilbur Rehmann Quartet is an exciting
jazz quartet from the Northern Rocky Mountains and High Plains of Montana. The
group has performed before audiences in
Montana, Idaho, Wyoming and Washington,
always providing interesting and inventive
hot rhythms and smooth sound.
Non-member Student Registration ......................................................$200
Member Registration ..........................................................................$335
Non-member Registration ....................................................................$385
Day Rate Student ..................................................................................$60
Day Rate Non-Student ........................................................................$115
Banquet ..................................................................................................$40
Hotel Information
Wildland Firefighter Foundation
Fun Run/Walk
Wednesday, October 27th
Check in: 6:30 am | Start time: 7:00 am
Join us for a morning of fun in Riverfront
Park and the streets of Spokane. There will
be two courses to select from the day of the
event, 5K and 1 mile. The proceeds from
this event will go directly to the Wildland
Firefighter Foundation.
The Wildland Firefighter Foundation's main
focus is to help families of firefighters killed
in the line of duty and to assist injured firefighters and their families. We honor and acknowledge past, present, and future
members of the wildland firefighting community, and partner with private and interagency organizations to bring recognition to
wildland firefighters.
Red Lion Hotel at the Park
West 303 North River Drive | Spokane, WA 99201
Tel: 509-326-8000 | Booking code: INT101024
Complimentary Airport Transportation
For more information or to register visit the conference website at:
www.iawfonline.org/spokane2010/
For more information contact: info@iawfonline.org
For exhibitor info contact: exhibits@iawfonline.org
Registration is complimentary for conference participants. Donations for the Wildland
Firefighter Foundation will be collected
throughout the conference and the morning
of the event.
Become a IAWF member
& receive a discount on
your registration, plus many
more benefits!