North Central Washington

Fire and fuels ecology

Links to Wildfire Information on this Website

by George Wooten
Twisp, Washington

Selected Fire issues papers

Fuel Modeling

Wildfire definitions (by G. Wooten)

Community Fire Planning

Fire Plan Summary (by Methow Community Fire Plan Coordinating Group, 3.1MB pdf)
Fuel reduction priorities (by G. Wooten)

Fuel Modeling

Fuel model assumptions (by G. Wooten)
Review article: Science of fuel reduction (by G. Wooten)
Remotely sensed fuel model analysis (by Wooten, Demyan and Smith)
Critique of fire regime condition class applied to shrub-steppe (by G. Wooten)

Restoration with fire

Fuel Reduction Restoration (by Timothy Ingalsbee)
Roadless area fuel reduction (by DellaSala and Frost)

Salvage logging

Thunder Mountain fire page (by Trust for Habitat Conservation)
Background information on salvage logging (by G. Wooten)
Libby South Fire Kill background information (by George Wooten)
Science and salvage logging (by Mike Peterson)

pine tree snag