International Journal of Wildland Fire update

             

The most recent edition of the International Journal of Wildland Fire is issue 19, number 4. All IAWF members have free online access to all Journal abstracts and articles via our IAWF Web site.

This issue's featured paper is “Assessing crown fire potential in coniferous forests of western North America: a critique of current approaches and recent simulation studies,” by Drs. Miguel G. Cruz and Martin E. Alexander. As the title suggests, the paper critiques various methodologies for evaluating conifer forest crown fire potential behavior.

This most recent issue also includes the following research:

• “NCEP-ECPC monthly to seasonal U.S. fire danger forecasts,” J. Roads, P. Tripp, H. Juang, J. Wang, F. Fujioka and S. Chen

• “Effect of fire weather, fuel age and topography on patterns of remnant vegetation following a large fire event in southern California, USA,” Nell Blodgett, Douglas A. Stow, Janet Franklin and Allen S. Hope

• “Mesoscale model simulation of the meteorological conditions during the 2 June 2002 Double Trouble State Park wildfire,” Joseph J. Charney and Daniel Keyser

• “Beyond Landsat: a comparison of four satellite sensors for detecting burn severity in ponderosa pine forests of the Gila Wilderness, NM, USA,” Zachary A. Holden, Penelope Morgan, Alistair M.S. Smith and Lee Vierling

• “Simple models for predicting dead fuel moisture in eucalyptus forests,” Stuart Matthews, Jim Gould and Lachie McCaw

• “Economic analysis of geospatial technologies for wildfire suppression,” Hayley Hesseln, Gregory S. Amacher and Aaron Deskins

• “Bare soil and rill formation following wildfires, fuel reduction treatments, and pine plantations in the southern Sierra Nevada, California, USA,” Neil H. Berg and David L. Azuma

• “Impacts of erosion control treatments on native vegetation recovery after severe wildfire in the Eastern Cascades, USA,” Erich K. Dodson, David W. Peterson and Richy J. Harrod

• “Effect of fire severity on long-term occupancy of burned boreal conifer forests by saproxylic insects and wood-foraging birds,” Antoine Nappi, Pierre Drapeau, Michel Saint-Germain and Virginie A. Angers

• “The initiation of fire spread in shrubland fuels recreated in the laboratory,” Matt P. Plucinski, Wendy R. Anderson, Ross A. Bradstock and A. Malcolm Gill

• “Monte Carlo-based ensemble method for prediction of grassland fire spread,” Miguel G. Cruz