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Volume 6, Issue 1 is now available
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The papers in this Fire Ecology special issue describe recent advances in fire effects prediction for key classes of direct (first-order) fire effects. Recent advances in software systems, in which multiple models and databases are included in a single application tailored to address fire management questions, give impetus to foundational fire effects research that would improve fire effects prediction. Dickinson and Ryan introduce the issue with a discussion of the range of approaches for predicting fire effects and highlight research and development needs. In Kremens et al., the development of fire measurement technologies (fire metrology) is explored, including methods used to quantify both fire behaviors that are important for predicting fire effects and direct fire effects themselves. Massman et al. consider coupled mass and heat transfer in soils during fires and the transformation of soil physical and chemical properties, some irreversible, that occur as a result of intense heating. Butler and Dickinson describe the development of process models of tree heating, injury, and mortality. Kavanagh et al. build on the tree injury and mortality theme, demonstrating how little we actually know about tree physiological responses to fires. Current understanding of fire effects on herbs and shrubs is explored in Stephan et al. and many gaps in our knowledge are identified. As described in Engstrom, direct effects of heat and smoke on fauna include injury, mortality, and emigration; effects that have generally been considered to be of secondary importance to habitat effects unless an endangered population or species has a limited, local distribution. In the final paper, Reinhardt and Dickinson discuss existing and emerging software systems for use by researchers and land managers to conduct risk assessments, develop prescriptions for fuel treatments or prescribed fire, and support long-term planning.
2009 Lifetime Achievement Award Winners
Every Year, AFE gives two lifetime achievement awards. This last December, at the 4th International Fire Ecology and Management Congress, AFE presented the Harold Biswell Award to Dr. James K. Agee and the Herbert, Stoddard Sr. Award to Dr. Bill Boyer. Both of these men have dedicated their lives to bettering the natural environment through fire ecology. Visit our awards page to see all past award winners.
1910 Fires: Century Later
Over 3.1 million acres of forests burned in northern Idaho and western Montana. Inland Empire Society of American Foresters; the Rocky Mountain Research Station, Northern Region, Fire and Aviation Management, National Forest Systems, and Research and Development of the Forest Service (FS); and the Forest History Society are sponsoring a conference that will examine the social and institutional conditions prior to the fire, the fires, the impacts the fires had, and discuss the possibility of such fires burning again.
The conference is May 20-22 and Registration begins march first. For more information, view the flyer, or visit their website at http://www.iesaf.org/.
Volume 5, Issue 3 is now available
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This issue focuses on the fire history of species and regions of California for which little previous literature exists. Three articles present information about Jeffrey pine stands on the eastern side of the Sierra Nevada, and one reports on ponderosa pine stands in the North Coast Ranges. McNab cypress fire histories are presented for the first time as are histories for bigcone Douglas-fir in southern California. The latter article sheds light on what fire regimes might have been in chaparral stands that surround the bigcone Douglas-firs. Finally, a complete history spanning nearly 3,000 years of the Giant Forest grove of giant sequoias in Sequoia National Park is presented.
With this issue, we have assigned Digital Object Identifiers (doi) to each article as well as to all previous articles published in Fire Ecology. These identifiers will allow for easy access to all of our articles and will insure that they are properly indexed by the citation indexing services. Currently, in addition to citations in Fire Ecology itself, ten other journals have cited our articles. You are encouraged to download articles, cite them, and, of course, submit new articles for consideration.
Board Elects New Members
The AFE Board has added three new members for the start of the 2010 year. They are Micah-John Beierle, a graduate student at Texas Tech University, Bob Keane, a research ecologist at the Rocky Mountain Research Station, and Dan Perrakis, a fire ecologist at Western and Northern Service Center for Parks Canada. Visit our about us section to view the full Board.
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