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Tuesday, February 9

Wednesday, February 10

Thursday, February 11

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McClellan Park Lecture Theater - except where noted

Tuesday, Febuary 9

I: Introduction and Pre-Wildfire Management Options
Moderator: Mike Chapel

7:00                  Registration in the foyer of the McClellan Park Lecture Theater.  Coffee and light snacks in the Garden Pavilion

8:00-8:30         Welcome—Mike Chapel, USDA Forest Service

8:30-9:00         Opening Address—Beth Pendleton, USDA Forest Service

I-1:  Historical and Ecological Setting
Moderator: Brandon Collins

9:00-9:30 Sierra/Cascade Vegetation, Historic Fire Regimes and Fuel Types—Carl Skinner, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station

9:30-10:00 Pre- and Post-Fire Treatment Influences on Forest Dynamics—Rob York, UC Center for Forestry

10:00–10:30 Ownership and Management Goals and Objectives:  Public, private industrial, private non-industrial—Gary Nakamura, UC Cooperative Extension, Berkeley

10:30-11:00    Break - Garden Pavilion Foyer

I-2:  Pre-Fire Management Options and Treatments
Moderator: Brandon Collins

11:00–11:30 Description of Pre-Fire Treatment Options—Scott Stephens, University of California, Berkeley, ESPM

11:30–12:00 Scale Effects on Treatments, Their Impacts and Effectiveness:  Parcel Scale to Landscape Scale—Mark Finney, USDA Forest Service

12:00–1:00      Lunch served in the Garden Pavilion Ballroom

1:00–1:30 Treatment Effects on Wildfire Behavior—Malcolm North, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station

1:30–3:00        Panel: Ecological and Environmental Impacts of Pre-Fire Treatments
Wildlife Habitat—Don Yasuda, USDA Forest Service
Soils—Matt Busse, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station
Watershed Functions—Lee MacDonald, Colorado State University

I-3: Review of Case Studies Demonstrating Collarboration on Pre-Fire Treatments
Moderator: Mike De Lasaux

3:00–3:30      Break - Garden Pavilion Foyer

3:30–4:00 Public and Private Fuel Management in the WUI and Beyond—Mike De Lasaux, UC Cooperative Extension, Plumas-Sierra Counties

4:00–4:30 El Dorado County: Wildland-Urban Interface—Mark Egbert, El Dorado County & Georgetown Divide RCD

4:30–5:00 Overview of the day’s presentations?—Rick Standiford, UC Berkeley, Center for Forestry

5:00        Adjourn

Wednesday, February 10

McClellan Park Lecture Theater - except where noted

The opening presentation will focus on the ecology and fire regimes of the target geographic area followed by presentations that will describe alternative management responses after a fire along with their consequences.

II: Post-Wildfire Treatment Options
Moderator: Mike Chapel

8:00–8:10      Welcome and Introductions—Mike Chapel, USDA Forest Service

8:10–8:30 Opening Address by CALFIRE Representative—Crawford Tuttle, CALFIRE

II-1: Ecological Effects of Wildfire in the Sierra Nevada: What is the Problem?
Moderator: Russ Henly

8:30–9:00 Fire Intensity and Scale: Projections for Sierra Nevada Forests—Carl Skinner, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station

9:00–9:25 Effects of Wildfires on Runoff and Erosion—Lee MacDonald, Colorado State University

9:25–9:50 Ecological Benefits of High Intensity Wild Fire—Chad Hanson, UC Davis and John Muir Project

9:50–10:15 Ecological Implications of Future Fire Regimes—Hugh Safford, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Region & UC Davis

II-2: Post-Fire Management Responses
Moderator: Jeff Calvert

10:15–10:40  Break - Garden Pavilion Foyer

10:40–11:10 Post-fire Emergency Response to Reduce Unacceptable Risks to Human Life, Property, Cultural and Natural Resources—Brent Roath, USDA Forest Service

11:10–11:40 Pros and Cons of Salvage and Restoration Operations—John Sessions, Oregon State University, College of Forestry

11:40–12:10 Reforestation Options—John Helms, UC Berkeley (ret.)

12:10–1:10    Lunch served in the Garden Pavilion Ballroom

II-3: Current Post-Fire Management Practices
Moderator: Mike Landram

1:10–1:40 Reforestation Practices and Issues on National Forests—Mike Landram, USDA Forest Service

1:40–2:10 Reforestation Practices and Issues on Large Industrial Forestlands—Dan Tomascheski, Sierra Pacific Industries

2:10–2:40    Reforestation Practices and Issues on Non-Industrial Private Forestlands—Jim Chapin, Shasta Land Management Consultants

2:40–3:00    Break - Garden Pavilion Foyer

II-4: Ecological and Environmental Consequences of Alternatives
Moderator: Lorna Dobrovolny

3:00–3:20 Wildlife Habitat—Don Yasuda, USDA Forest Service

3:20–3:40 Soils and Site Productivity—Dave Young, USDA Forest Service, Region 5

3:40–4:00 Watershed Functions—Lee MacDonald, Colorado State University

II-5: Perspectives and Issues Regarding Post-Fire Management
Moderator: Jim Ostrowski

4:00–5:00    Panelists will address the following questions:
-What is your desired post fire restoration objective for federal and private land?
-When (under what conditions) is intervention warranted to increase resiliency ?
-What are some good ways to integrate post-fire goals for forest health, wildlife habitat, soil, and water?
Sue Britting, Sierra Forest Legacy
Steve Brink, California Forestry Association
Bill Keye, California Licensed Foresters Association
Jonathan Kusel, Sierra Institute for Community and Environment

5:00    Adjourn

Poster Session with hosted light hors d'oeuvres in the Garden Pavilion Ballroom
5:30–7:00    Background information on wildfire, fire behavior, fire regimes, terms and definitions, pre-fire and post-fire treatments.  Give participants with diverse backgrounds and levels of expertise a common language and understanding.  Poster preparation would also facilitate post-conference follow up materials, web-based proceedings.

Thursday, February 11

Garden Pavilion Ballroom

The final day will be dedicated to an evaluation of the previous days’ information, including breakout group roundtables. The conference will conclude with presentations of group findings and recommendations.

III-1: What Does the Future Hold?
Moderator: Susie Kocher

8:00–8:15    Introduction—Susie Kocher

8:15–8:30 Summary of the first two days—Dave Graber, National Park Service

III-2:  Breakout Sessions
Moderator: Kimberly Rodrigues

8:30–9:50      The audience will be divided into small groups for facilitated discussions.  Each group will be asked to develop recommendations for public and private land managers based on their understanding of the body of existing science and the range of public opinion about resource values and management techniques     Each Group will report their findings to the full audience.

9:50–10:05   Break - Garden Pavilion Foyer

10:05–10:30

10:30-12:00  Panel Impressions of Day 1 and Day 2 - What have we heard that influences, how we do our job and what questions remain?  Note: this discussion should identify some important questions for managers that will be the focus for the breakout discussions.

Moderator: Kimberly Rodrigues, UC ANR, North Coast & Mountain Region Office
Bill Kinney, California Energy Commission
Pete Johnson, W.M. Beaty & Associates, Inc.
Thom Porter, CALFIRE
Tom Quinn, USDA Forest Service, Tahoe National Forest
Ray Sauvajot, Natural Resource Programs, PacWest Region

Noon - 12:15  Next Steps

12:15 p.m. Adjourn

NOTE: An Optional Work Group Meeting will be offered for interested participants at a date after the conference.  The purpose for this group will be to continue  discussing the issues that were raised at the conference, leading to recommendations on methods for resolving some of the tough fire-related issues for land managers.