3rd International Conference on Wildland Fire 2003 Papers
The 3rd International Wildland Fire Conference
3-6 October 2003, Sydney, Australia
Abstracts and Papers
The 3rd International Wildland Fire Conference was held in Sydney, Australia, 3-6 October 2003. The conference followed-up the First International Conference on Wildland Fire (Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A., 1989) and the Second International Conference on Wildland Fire (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 1997). The Third Conference was sponsored by the USDA Forest Service, the Australasian Fire Authorities Council, and NFPA International. The majority of papers (some of them abstracts only) have been recovered in late 2010 and are now available in PDF format. The sequence of papers follows the final agenda:
- Values, Tradeoffs, and Context: A Call for a Public Lands Policy Debate on the Management of Fire-Dependent Ecosystems, by J. Williams, Fire and Aviation Management, U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, USA
- Management of Haze; An ASEAN Regional Perspective, by P H. Rosnani Ibarahim, Department of Environment, MALAYSIA
- The Politics of Fire Management, by Commissioner Phil Koperberg AO, AFSM, BEM NSW Rural Fire Service
- Social Considerations of Reducing Fuels in the Wildland-Urban Interface in the Western United States, by L. Hamilton, Office of Fire and Aviation, Bureau of Land Management, Department of the Interior
- A Strategic Plan for the Renewal of Canada’s Forest Fire Program, by D.C. Tulloch, Saskatchewan Environment, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada; L.J. Cooke, Geospatial International, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Applying reward versus punishment psychology to the wildland fire suppression culture, byA.K. Beaver, Yukon Wildand Fire Management, Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada
- Implications of Latest Fire Behaviour Research Findings on Fire Fighter Safety Management, by N.P. Cheney, CSIRO Forestry and Forest Products, Canberra ACT, Australia
- Wild, tame and feral fire: the fundamental linkage between indigenous fire usage and the conservation of Australian biodiversity, by D. Bowman, Northern Territory University, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
- The Role of Government in Supporting Traditional Communitybased Fire Management Systems among the tribes in NE India, by V.T. Darlong, Ministry of Environment & Forests, NE Regional Office, Shillong, India
- Cultural Practices of Fire Management in Indigenous Communities with Forestry Resources and its Effects on the Economic-Ecological Environment, by L. Rosenzweig, J.Rickards, J.M. Frausto, Mexican Nature Conservation Fund (Fondo Mexicano para la Conservación de la Naturaleza)
- Caring for country: Indigenous people managing country using fire with particular emphasis on Northern Australia, by J.H. Morrison, P.M. Cooke, Cooperative Research Centre for Tropical Savannas Management, NT, Australia
- Understanding Wildland Fire Basic Beliefs and Social Norms as Antecedents to Fire Management Education and Communications, by J.D. Absher, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station, Riverside, CA USA; A.D. Bright, J.J. Vaske, K. Kneeshaw, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, CO USA
- Understanding Community Response to Wildfire, by A.N.Rhodes, CFA, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
- Firewise Communities: Recasting the Future of the Wildland/Urban Interface, by J. Smalley, National Fire Protection Association, Quincy MA USA
- Forest Fire Prevention In Urban-Rural Interface In Central Zone Of Chile – Valparaiso Region, by R. I. Molina, Corporación Nacional Forestal CONAF, Viña del Mar, Chile
- Integration experiences in forest fire prevention & protection: The Chilean experience & its international projection, by O. Ormazabal, Afocela, Portugal
- The Development and Implementation of an Improved Fire Shelter for Wildland Firefighters, by L. Anderson, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Missoula Technology and Development Center, Missoula, MT, USA
- Development of Fire Fighting Vehicle Crew Protection Systems, by D. Nichols, Country Fire Authority, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Air Toxics Factors and Criteria for Crew Survivability/Tenability in Vehicle Burnover, byS.K. Brown, CSIRO Manufacturing & Infrastructure Technology, Highett, Victoria, Australia
- Thermal Factors for Human Survival in Fire Tanker Burn-overs, by I. Knight, CSIRO Forestry and Forest Products, Yarralumla, ACT, Australia
- Decision Making and Safety: Problems in predicting fire behaviour, by B. Hesketh, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia
- AFAC STREAM PAPER Council of Australian Governments (COAG) Report Natural Disaster in Australia: reforming mitigation, relief and recovery arrangements, by M. J. Kinnane, Department of Emergency Services, Queensland, Australia
- AFAC STREAM PAPER Summary and Analysis of Review into Operational Response Lessons for the Future ACT Fires January 2003, by S.J. Ellis, Principal Leading by Example, Adelaide, South Australia
- AFAC STREAM PAPER Multi-Agency Response Victorian 2003 Fires, by Russell Rees, Country Fire Authority, Victoria, Australia
- Challenges for Fire Management in the Changing Socio-Environment of the Western Cape South Africa, by Z. Erasmus, Western Cape Nature Conservation Board, Cape Town, Province of the Western Cape, South Africa
- Do Cultural Differences Affect Support for Alternative Wildland Fire Mitigation Strategies: Native Americans in Montana, USA, by A. González-Cabán, USDA Forest Service, Riverside, CA, USA
- Fire Management Conflict Among Urban and Rural Populations and Fire Related Ecosystems in the Mexico City Forests, by D. A. Rodríguez-Trejo, División de Ciencias Forestales, Universidad Autónoma Chapingo, Chapingo, Edo. de México, Mexico
- Transport of Radioactive Materials by Wildland fires in the Chernobyl Accident Zone: How to Address the Problem, by S. I. Dusha-Gudym, All-Russian Research Institute for Silviculture and Mechanization of Forestry (VNIILM), Pushkino, Moscow Region, Russia
- Characteristics and Management of Wildfire in the Interface of Kunming City, Southwest China, by Wu Deyou, Southwest Forestry College
- Further Defining Community-Based Fire Management: Critical Elements and Rapid Appraisal Tools, by P.F. Moore, Metis Associates, (formerly Project Firefight South East Asia), East Ryde, NSW, Australia
- The Interface Fire Problem An Urban Fire Service Perspective, by G. Mullins, New South Wales Fire Brigades, Sydney NSW Australia
- Findings of Studies of Houses Damaged by Bushfire in Australia, by J.E. Leonard and P.A. Bowditch, CSIRO Manufacturing & Infrastructure Technology, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Use of Human Factors Analysis for Wildland Fire Accident Investigations, by M. Ryerson-Grett, USDI Bureau of Land Management, Office of Fire and Aviation, ID, USA
- Precursor for Error: An Analysis of Wildland Fire Crew Leaders Attitudes about Organizational Culture and Safety, by L.S. McDonald, Mission-Centered Solutions, Inc., Parker, CO, USA
- Developing Common International Standards for Wildland Firefighters Personal Protective Equipment, by R. Donarski, Australasian Fire Authorities Council, East Melbourne VIC, Australia
- Recruit the Right Person the First Time Using Psychological Profiling for Volunteers and Career Fire Fighters, by K. Byrne, Australian Institute of Forensic Psychology, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
- Developing Leadership & Management Behaviours – Becoming An Ambidextrous Organisation, by V.P. Arbuckle, New Zealand Fire Service
- AFAC STREAM PAPER Getting it Right: AIIMS ICS – Preliminary Results of National Review, by K.J. Maynes, CFA, Burwood East, Victoria, Australia, by K.J. Maynes, CFA, Burwood East, Victoria, Australia
- THE WAY AHEAD: Development of effective Recruitment and Retention Strategies for Volunteer Fire Services, by M.Aldridge Jnr, Fire and Emergency Services Authority of Western Australia
- The Full Picture: Assessing the Present and Future Roles of Technology on Firegrounds, by Z.Phillips, NSW Rural Fire Service
- The Global Perspective. Conceptualising Fire in Past, Present, and Future Settings, by S.J. Pyne, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, USA
- An Integrated Fire Management System for the Kruger National Park in South Africa, byW.S.W. Trollope, Department Livestock & Pasture Science, University of Fort Hare, Alice, South Africa
- Managing Bushfire in a Biodiversity Hotspot, by N.D. Burrows, Department of Conservation & land Management, Kensington, WA, Australia
- Burning For Conservation In Australian Tropical Savannas: Implications From The Kapalga Fire Experiment, by A.N. Andersen, CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems, Darwin, NT, Australia
- Application of Fire Behaviour to Fire Danger and Wildfire Threat Modelling in New Zealand, by H.G. Pearce, New Zealand Forest Research Institute, Christchurch, New Zealand
- Fire Research Advance and Technology Transfer in China, by S. Lifu, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing, China
- Physics-Based Modelling of Wildland-Urban Intermix Fires, by D.D. Evans, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, USA
- Effects of head fire shape and size on forest fire rate of spread, by J. S. Gould, CSIRO Forestry and Forests Product, Canberra ACT, Australia
- Do eucalypt forest fires burn faster and hotter in older fuels? implications for hazard reduction burning, by W. L. McCaw, Department of Conservation and Land Management, Manjimup, WA, Australia
- Wildland Fire Evacuation in the U.S.: The Color vs. the Letter of the Law, by A.E. Tuttle, California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, Sacramento, California, USA
- Community Self-Reliance During Bushfires: The Case For Staying At Home, by J.B. Gledhill, Tasmania Fire Service, TAS, Australia
- Integrating Scientific Knowledge Into Social And Economic Decisions For Ecologically Sound Fire And Restoration Management, by M. Kaufmann, USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Fort Collins, CO, USA
- AFAC STREAM PAPER RESIDENTIAL FIRE FATALITIES AND OTHER RESEARCH GETTING THE FULL PICTURE, by J. A. Newton, Queensland Fire and Rescue Service, Brisbane, Qld, Australia
- Rural/Urban Community Safety and Bush Fires, by R. D. Smith and R. J. Stevens, Fire and Emergency Services Authority of Western Australia, Perth, WA, Australia
- Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) Multi-Agency Operations An Integrated Approach to Emergency Management., by J.E. Denny, New South Wales Fire Brigades Sydney, NSW, Australia
- The Use of Prescribed Fire in the Land Management of Western and Baltic Europe, by M.A. Bruce, Glen Tanar Estate, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, United Kingdom
- Fire and Biodiversity Management in Victoria Integrating the Science, Planning and Implementation Processes, by G.R. Friend, Department of Sustainability and Environment, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
- Fire Management To Conserve Biodiversity And Protect Communities A Global Perspective From A Conservation Organization, by W. J. Jackson, IUCN The World Conservation Union, Switzerland
- A Collaborative Effort To Tangibly Reduce The Conservation Threat Of Altered Fire Regimes Around The Globe: The Nature Conservancys Global Fire Initiative, by J. Hardesty, The Nature Conservancy Fire Initiative, Gainesville, FL, USA
- Spatial Tools for Wildland Fire Management Planning, by M A. Finney, USDA Forest Service, Fire Sciences Laboratory, Missoula MT, USA
- Predictive Services: A New Tool for Proactive Wildland Fire Management, by R. Ochoa, Bureau of Land Management, National Interagency Fire Center, Boise, ID, USA
- House Ignition Likelihood Index – An Hazard Assessment Method for Land Managers in the Wildland-Urban Interface, by K.G. Tolhurst, University of Melbourne, Creswick VIC, Australia
- Challenges of Managing Fires along an Urban-Wildland Interface Lessons from Sydney, Australia and its Surrounding Environs, by Mark Crosweller AFSM, Executive Director Operations and Regional Management, NSW Rural Fire Service
- Challenges of Managing Fires along an Urban-Wildland Interface – Lessons from the Cape Peninsula, South Africa, by S. Fowkes, Santam/Argus Ukuvuka Campaign, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
- Challenges of managing fires along an urban-wildland interface lessons from the Santa Monica Mountains, Los Angeles, California, by J.E. Keeley, U.S. Geological Survey, Western Ecological Research Center, Sequoia-Kings, Canyon Field Station, Three Rivers, CA, USA
- Use of Artificial Intelligence to Develop Team Leaders, by Jeremy Azis, VectorCommand, UK and Craig Hynes, FESA AFAC Stream, by Jeremy Azis, VectorCommand, UK and Craig Hynes, FESA AFAC Stream
- Understanding the Geographic Distribution of Risk, by B. R. Waddington, Spectrum Analysis Australia Pty Ltd
- Fire Management Tradeoffs at the Bushland-Urban Interface?, by A. Malcolm Gill, Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, CSIRO Plant Industry, Canberra, ACT, Australia
- Management Of Wildlife, Fuels And The Urban Interface: A Compatible Or A Combustible Situation?, by G.M. Sitter, Bureau of Land Management, Montana State Office
- Assessing The Ecological Implications Of Prescribed Burning: Where Do You Start?, by V. Jurskis, State Forests of NSW, Eden, NSW, Australia
- Mesoscale Numerical Weather Prediction And Extreme Fire Weather, by G.A.Mills, Bureau of Meteorology Research Centre, Melbourne, Vic., Australia
- Fire Consortia for Advanced Modeling of Meteorology and Smoke – FCAMMS, by A.R. Riebau, USDA Forest Service Research and Development, Washington, DC, USA
- The Australian Bushfire Cooperative Research Centre Program: A National User-Driven approach towards a coordinated Fire Research Program, by I. D. Mac Dougall, Chairman Bushfire Cooperative Research Centre, Australia
- Integration of Scientific Research Results in Forest Fire Management, by D.X. Viegas, Centro de Estudos sobre Incêndios Florestais – Associação para o Desenvolvimento da Aerodinâmica Industrial, University of Coimbra Coimbra, Portugal
- Real time hazard triage: how GIS and mobile computers can help save homes, by J. J. Coil, Sedona Fire District, Sedona, Arizona, United States of America
- Fire Insurance For Bushfire Risk, by C.D.Henri, Insurance Disaster Response Organisation, Baulkham Hills, NSW, Australia
- Wildfire Prevention Planning in the I Zone and Beyond Are We Making a Difference?, by M. G. Watts, South Australia Country Fire Service, South Australia, Australia
- Wildfire-Related Changes of Forest Structure and Functions in Siberia, by V. V. Furyaev,V.N. Sukachev Institute of Forest, Russian Academy of Sciences, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
- Keys for Successful International Cooperation: a Dream, a Team, and a Theme, by R.W. Mutch, Fire Management Applications, Missoula, Montana, USA
- Fires In Tropical Forests Throwing Good Money After Bad?, by D. Kaimowitz, Center for International Forest Research (CIFOR)
- Fire Management Requirements in Ethiopia-The need for international support, by B. Million, Ministry of Agriculture, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
- Fire Management Needs in Russias Boreal Forest Zone, by E. P. Davidenko, National Aerial Forest Fire Center of Russia Avialesookhrana, Pushkino, Russia
- The Cooperative International Fire Initiatives Developed through the FAO, by M. Jurvélius, Forest Resources Division, Forestry Department, FAO, Rome Italy
- Fire Management Adaptation to Future Climate Change in Canada, by W.J. de Groot, Canadian Forest Service, Edmonton, AB, Canada
- Wildfires and Global Climate Change Along a Transect Through the Americas, by D.V. Sandberg, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, Corvallis, OR, USA
- Causes of Indonesian Vegetation/Land Fires and Terrestrial Carbon Emissions, by D. Murdiyarso, Bogor Agricultural University, Bogor, Indonesia
- A new Approach to Wildland Fire Management in South Africa, by J.A. Bridgett, CSIR, Stellenbosch, Western Province, South Africa
- Drought, Fire and Fuel Treatment in Western US, by P.N. Omi, Western Forest Fire Research Center (WESTFIRE), Colorado State University
- Forest fire Situation and Management in China, by D. Yongsheng, Forest Fire Management Office, State Forestry Admonition, Beijing,China
- The Evolution and Application of Wildland Fire Assessments in Colorado, by M.A. da Luz, USDA Forest Service, Golden, Colorado, USA
- The Politics of Wildfires: The Media Perspective, by L.R. Hatcher, Sky News Australia.
- Facilitating Community-Based Solutions, by M.T. DeGrosky, The Guidance Group, Washburn, Wisconsin, USA
- NSW Fire Brigades Surveying Fire Affected Communities 2001/02, by R.G.Alexander, New South Wales Fire Brigades Fire Investigation & Research Unit, Sydney, NSW, Australia
- International Wildland Fire Cooperation Protocols and Pitfalls, by T.M. Frey, U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management, Boise, Idaho
- The European Forest Fire Information System: A European strategy towards forest fire management, by J. San-Miguel-Ayanz, European Commission Joint Research Centre, Institute for Environment and Sustainability, Ispra, Italy
- Fire Management Networks: An Approach for Improving Fire Management on Conservation Lands in Latin America & the Caribbean, by R. L. Myers, The Nature ConservancyFire Initiative, Tallahassee, Florida, USA
- Fire Cooperative Arrangements in the Mediterranean Successes and Short-Comings, by F. Rodriguez y Silva, University of Cordoba, Forest Engineer Department, Forest Fire Management Unit, Córdoba. Spain
- New Approaches to Forest Fire Management at an Ecoregional Level in the Far East of the Russian Federation, by A. V. Kushlin, The World Bank, Washington DC, USA, by A. V. Kushlin, The World Bank, Washington DC, USA
- Applications of Remote Sensing Technologies to Support Fire Suppression and Rehabilitation within the USDA Forest Service, by T.J. Bobbe, Remote Sensing Applications Center, USDA Forest Service, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
- Developing Sentinel Hotspots Fire Location Website, by A. Held, P. Dyce, CSIRO Land and Water, Canberra, ACT, Australia, by A. Held, P. Dyce, CSIRO Land and Water, Canberra, ACT, Australia
- Southern Africa Fire Network of the Global Observation of Forestry Cove: A Collaborative Effort Towards Developing Capacity for Operational Fire Monitoring and Management Systems in Southern Africa, by O. P. Dube, University of Botswana, Gaborone
- Learning Lessons from an Exceptional Period of Fires in Central Australia: 1999 to 2002, by G.E.Allan, Bushfires Council of the Northern Territory, Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia
- A Theoretical Framework for Wildfire Risk Assessment, by B.J. Shields, Metis Associates, Bowral, NSW, Australia
- A Wildfire Risk Management System An Evolution of the Wildfire Threat Rating System, by D.W. Ohlson, Compass Resource Management Ltd., Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Assessment of Forest Fire Management in Jebel Marra, by A. E. M. Elgamri, Sudan University of Science and Technology, Khartoum, Sudan
- Fire in the Brazilian Amazon Forest and Mexicos Protected Areas, by E. Alvarado, FERA, College of Forest Resources, University of Washington. Seattle, WA, USA
- Wildfire Risk Integrating Community Resilience Or Vulnerability Attributes And Hazard Assessments, To Provide A Comprehensive Risk Model, by K. Braun, ICS Group, Narrikup, WA, Australia
- Findings from Site Investigation of Damaged Houses in the 2001-2 Lower Blue Mountains Bushfires, by S.L. Poon, Warrington Fire Research (Aust) P/L
- Corporate Governance Issues at Multi-Agency and Multi-National Wildfires, by P.L.Dobbin, Dobbin Consulting Pty Ltd, Victoria, Australia
- Evaluation of the Ferny Creek Fire Alert Trial, by N.J. Free, Shire of Yarra Ranges, Lilydale, Victoria Australia
- Closing Paper: Summary of the findings of the 3rd International Wildland Fire Conference and Directions for the Global Wildland Fire Summit and the Follow-up Process, by J G. Goldammer, Coordinator, Working Group on Wildland Fire, UN-ISDR Inter-Agency Task Force for Disaster Reduction, Global Fire Monitoring Center (GFMC) and Fire Ecology Research Group, Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, c/o Freiburg University, Freiburg, Germany