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Date |
Topic |
Readings & Assignments |
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Week 1
Aug. 25-27 |
Introductions
Course Organization
Fire as a Process: Biophysical, Social and Ecological
Discussion: Fire Ecology and Fire Management. Challenges |
Read
syllabus
Read for discussion
Quadrennial Fire
Review (Executive Summary and text, skip the cover pages)
Read
Agee Chapters 1 and 2 |
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Week 2
Sept. 1-3 |
Fire Effects on Plants
PPT I
and PPT 2
Fire Effects Information System (FEIS)
Discuss Fire Effects Monitoring Assignment
School Fire Case Study: Burn severity, salvage logging and post-fire
rehabilitation -- Guest Presentation by Marshell Moy, Graduate Student
in Fire Ecology |
DUE Sept 3: AHA Moment #1
Read
Agee Chapter 5 |
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Week 3
Sept. 8-10 |
Fire regimes and
Fire Regime Condition Class (FRCC)
PDF
of PowerPoint
Fire history methods
PDF
of PowerPoint
Discussion: Historical Range of Variability
Discussion: Educating Fire Professionals |
Participate in
100 Years of Forestry Education Sept 11-12 (AHA Moment #2
must be about this)
DUE Sept 10: MONITORING PART 1
Read two papers (Go to the UI library web site and then find
articles to get these, or use the Idaho Article Linker on Google
Scholar):
Swetnam, TW, CD Allen, and JL Betancourt. 1999. Applied historical
ecology: using the past to manage for the future. Ecological
Applications 9:1189-1206.
and
Millar, CI, NL Stephenson, and SL Stephens. 2007. Climate change and
forests of the future: managing in the face of uncertainty. Ecological
Applications 17: 2145-2151. |
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Week 4
Sept. 15-17 |
Ponderosa pine and Ecological Restoration
PDF
of PowerPoint
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Read
Agee Chapter 4
DUE Sept. 17: AHA Moment #2 (this one must be about one of the
100 Years of Forestry Education http://www.uidaho.edu/cnr/celebrating100years.aspx events that you attended on Sept 11 and 12) |
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Week 5
Sept. 22-24 |
Fire and Wildlife
PDF
of PowerPoint
Fire, Fish Wildlife
PDF of PowerPoint
First
exam Sept. 24, No class that day |
FIRST EXAM Sept 24 (Take on
Blackboard, this lasts 75 minutes.
You can take this from any computer. You must start between 10:30 am and
4:00 pm
No
class on Sept 24 |
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Week 6
Sept. 29-Oct. 1 |
Prairie Fire Ecology
PDF of PowerPoint
PDF of PowerPoint
Mid-term assessment: We'll hold a short discussion about what's going
well in the course and what needs to be improved upon for the on-going
course
Monitoring Assignment Parts 3&4; Introduce alternative models
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Saturday, Oct. 3 |
Required Field trip all-day Saturday, October 3 |
Required Field trip all-day Saturday, October
3
Field trip Make-up on Saturday Oct. 24 (only for those not
already in FOR 427) THIS MAKE-UP
FIELD TRIP HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED TO NOV. 7 |
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Week 7
Oct. 6-8 |
Fire Policy and Fire management before during and after fires
PDF of PowerPoint
Mgt
Issue:
To salvage log post-fire or not?
Mgt issue: Chapparal fire management |
DUE Oct. 8: Part 2 of Fire Effects Monitoring Project
DUE Oct. 8:
First version of 1st briefing paper
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Week 8
Oct. 13-15 |
Fuels Management
PDF of
Powerpoint
Fuel Treatment Effectiveness
PDF of Powerpoint
Protecting people and property from fires in the wildland-urban
interface (Guest presentation by Jack Cohen, Fire Sciences Laboratory,
USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station)
Presentation
(click on link then on seminars and then on title to view) |
DUE Oct. 15: AHA Moment #3
Read two papers (find them online):
Graham, R. T., McCaffrey, S. And T. B. Jain (technical
editors). 2004. Science basis for changing forest structure to modify
wildfire behavior and severity. USDA Forest Service General Technical
Report RMRS-GTR-120.
Schoennagel, T., T.T. Veblen , and W.H. Romme. 2004. The Interaction of
Fire, Fuels, and Climate across Rocky Mountain Forests.
BioScience
54(7):661–676
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Week 9:
Oct. 20-22 |
Fire Effects in Subalpine Forest Landscapes
PDF of PowerPoint
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Read
Agee Chapter 9
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Week 10:
Oct. 27-29 |
Fire Effects on Soils and Soil Nutrients
PDF of PowerPoint
PDF of PowerPoint
Second Exam is Oct 29 on Blackboard -- No class meeting
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DUE Oct. 29: MONITORING PART 3
NOTE CHANGE IN DUE DATE
SECOND EXAM Oct. 29 (Take on Blackboard, 75 minutes, start between 9:00
and 11:00 am) |
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Week 11:
Nov. 3-5 |
Fire Effects on Soils: hydrophobic soils, erosion and Post-fire
Management: Guest Presentation by Pete Robichaud
Smoke and Air Quality: Guest Presentation by Alistair Smith
PDF of PowerPoint
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DUE Nov. 3:
Field
Trip Assignment
DUE Nov. 5:
Final version of 1st briefing paper
READ pages
41-71, 177-191, and 300-316 from Fire Effects on Soils and Restoration
Strategies (this is available on
ereserve
(TO GET THE USERNAME AND
PASSWORD FOR THIS ON ERESERVE, GO TO BLACKBOARD)
READ Agee chapter on soils and air
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Week 12:
Nov. 10-12 |
Global Fire Ecology
PDF of PowerPoint
Fuels and fire hazard with bark beetles and dwarf mistletoe Guest
Presentations by
Chad Hoffman
PDF of PowerPoint
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NOTE CHANGE IN DUE DATE,
NOW
DUE Dec. 1: MONITORING PART 4 |
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Week 13:
Nov. 17-19 |
Fire and climate change (2 class sessions): Guest presentations by Phil Higuera |
DUE Nov. 17:
First version of 2nd briefing paper
DUE Nov. 19: AHA Moment #4
READ TWO PAPERS FOR DISCUSSION:
Heyerdahl EK, Morgan P,
Riser JP. Multi-season climate synchronized historical fires in dry
forests (1650-1900), northern Rockies, USA. Ecology. 2008;89(3):705-716.
Available at:
http://www.fs.fed.us/rm/pubs_other/rmrs_2008_heyerdahl_e002.pdf
Westerling AL,
Hidalgo HG, Cayan DR, Swetnam TW. Warming and earlier spring increase
western US forest wildfire activity. Science. 2006;313(5789):940-943.
Available (from UI network) at:
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/reprint/313/5789/940.pdf |
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Nov. 23-27 |
NO CLASS
THANKSGIVING BREAK |
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Week 14:
Dec. 1-3 |
Fire and sagebrush
PDF of PowerPoint
Fire and juniper woodlands
(Guest presentations by Steve Bunting, Rangeland Ecology and Management) |
Read
for juniper and sagebrush:
Miller et al. 2005
(this is a large file!) Focus on
p. 2-13,
20-34,
and
38-53).
DUE Dec. 3:
Final version of 2nd briefing paper
DUE Dec. 1: MONITORING PART 4 |
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Week 15:
Dec. 8-10 |
Preparing for Wildfire in Idaho: Collaborative Approaches to Minimizing
Impact on People --Guest Presentation by Steve Kimball, Coordinator of
Idaho FIREWISE
Fire and invasive species
PDF
of PowerPoint
Future of Fire Ecology and Management
PDF
of PowerPoint
Review for Oral Final Exam |
DUE Dec. 10:
AHA Moment #5
Read for invasive species discussion:
Brooks, M.L., C.M. D'Antonio, D.M. Richardson, J.B. Grace, J.E. Keeley,
J.M. Ditomaso, R.J. Hobbs, M. Pellant, D. Pyke. 2004. Effects of
Invasive Alien Plants on Fire Regimes. BioScience
54(7):677-688. |
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Week 16:
Dec. 14-16 |
ORAL FINAL EXAM
10 am-noon, Mon Dec. 14
OR
10 am-noon, Wed Dec. 16 |
Sign up:
in class for one of the two oral exam sessions |
