Agenda and Speaker Presentations

Sunday, November 16

7:00 p.m. Reception hosted by Boise Cascade Corporation Riverview Ballroom

Monday, November 17 DoubleTree Ballroom

8:45 a.m. Call to Order and Opening -- Ronald Yeske, President, National Council for Air and Stream Improvement, Washington D.C.

9:00 a.m. Keynote -- Mark Rey -- Undersecretary for Natural Resources and Environment, USDA, Washington D.C.

9:30 Policy Panel Theme: Relative Risk Assessments, Balancing Risks, and the National Fire Plan: Needs and Opportunities Panel Chair: Nancy Graybeal, Field Associate Deputy Chief, USDA Forest Service, Portland, Oregon

Jim Hubbard, Colorado State Forester, Boulder, Colorado
Jim Lecky, NOAA Fisheries
Dale Bosworth, Chief, USDA Forest Service, Washington D.C.
Geoff Pampush, Idaho State Director, The Nature Conservancy
Steve Williams, Director, US Fish and Wildlife Service, Washington D.C.
Dan Dessecker, Chair, American Wildlife Conservation Partners, Rice Lake, Wisconsin

Break: 10:20-10:35

Noon. Lunch Riverview Ballroom

1:00 Risk Science/ Decision Protocol Panel Theme: State-of-the-Art Theory and Practice for Risk Analysis and Management for Natural Systems and Related Decision Protocol: Capabilities and Opportunities Panel Chair: John Laurence, USDA Forest Service

Risk Assessment Practice for Chemicals and Contaminated Soils Anne Fairbrother, Chief, Risk Characterization Branch, Environmental Protection Agency, Western Ecology Division, Corvallis, Oregon
Accepting Uncertainty, Assessing Risk: A Decision Quality Approach Jeff Borchers, Research Forester, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station, Arcata, California
Risk Attitudes: Behaviorial Decision Theory for Resource Managers Lynn Maguire, Associate Professor, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina

2:45 Break


3:00 Wildfire Hazard and Risk Panel Theme: State-of-the-Art Predictive Modeling for Hazards and Risks of Uncharacteristic Wildfire: Capabilities and Opportunities Panel Chair: Steve Mealey, Boise Cascade Corporation, Boise, Idaho

Wildland Fire Hazard and Risk: Problems, Definitions, and Context Colin Hardy, USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station

Ecological Principles of Forest Fuel Reduction Treatments James K. Agee, College of Forest Resources, University of Washington

Predicting Occurrence of Uncharacteristic Wildland Fire Mark Finney, USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station

5:00 Adjourn Hospitality Suite sponsored by PBS Engineering and Environmental

Tuesday, November 18 DoubleTree Ballroom

8:00 a.m. Wildfire Hazard and Risk Panel (Continued)

Application of Hazard and Risk Analysis at Project Level R. Neil Sampson, The Sampson Group

Toward Science-Based Analysis of Fire Hazard and Risk David L. Peterson, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station

9:00 a.m. Species and Habitats "In Peril" Panel Theme: Principles and Practices for Conserving Species in Peril: Needs and Opportunities Panel Chair: Spencer Hovekamp, Environmental Policy Coordinator, Northwest Region, National Marine Fisheries Service, Portland, Oregon

Multiscale Considerations for Managing Spotted Owls in Fire-Adapted Forests of the Western United States Danny Lee, Research Ecologist, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Sowthwest Research Station, Arcata, California

Principles and Practices for Conserving Imperiled Salmonids Tim Burton, Fisheries Program Leader, Bureau of Land Management, Idaho State Office, Boise, Idaho

Native Salmonids and the Threat of Fire and Fire Related Management Bruce Reiman, Fisheries Research Scientist, USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Boise, Idaho

Pattern and Process Interactions of Present-Day Ponderosa Pine Forest Ecosystems: Spatial and Temporal Patterns Matter Paul Hessburg, Research Ecologist, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, Wenatchee, Washington

Restoring the Longleaf Pine-Grassland Ecosystem: Implications for Species at Risk David Van Lear, Bowen Professor of Forest Resources, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina

Break: 10:15-10:30

Noon Lunch Riverview Ballroom

1:00 p.m. Case Studies Panel Theme: Examples of the Effects of "No Action" Management in Fire Prone Forest Ecosystems Panel Chair: Jerry Franklin, Professor of Ecosystem Analysis, College of Forestry,University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
Managing Fish Habitat and Wildfire Risks in National Forests:Problem Formulation for Comparative Ecological Risk Assessment Jay O'Laughlin, Professor, Department of Forest Resources, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho
A System for Evakluating Ecological Risk in Fire Prone Landscapes: Indexing the Effects of Different Management Strategies Gary Roloff, Wildlife Management Specialist, Boise Cascade Corporation, Boise, Idaho

Sierra Nevada Framework: California Region USFS and Partners Jack
Blackwell, Regional Forester, Region 5, USDA Forest Service, Steve Thompson, California/Nevada Operations Manager, US Fish and Wildlife Service

Assessing Risk at Different Spatial Scales in Northeastern Oregon Jamie Barbour, Program Manager, Focused Science Delivery Program, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, Portland, Oregon

Fire Prone Landscapes: An Integrated Approach to Developing a Wildfire Hazard Assessment William E. Schlosser, Director of Northwest Management Inc. Geographical Information Systems Laboratory, Moscow, Idaho

Superior National Forest, July 4, 1999 Blowdown Jim Sanders, Forest Supervisor, Superior National Forest, USDA Forest Service, Duluth, Minnesota

Break: 3:00-3:30

6:00 p.m. Banquet Riverview Ballroom

Keynote: Paul Slovic, President of Decision Research and Professor of Psychology at the University of Oregon

Wednesday, November 19 DoubleTree Ballroom

8:00 a.m. Needs and Priorities Panel Theme Summary of Research Needs, Opportunities and Priorities Relative to the Focus Questions Panel Chair: Larry Irwin, Principal Scientist, National Council for Air and Stream Improvement, Stevensville, Montana

Uncharacteristic Wildland Fire Risk - Priorities for New Tools and Techniques Tom Quigley, Director, PNW Research Station, USDA Forest Service, Portland Oregon

Leon Neuenschwander, University of Idaho, (Ret.)

Kemper McMaster, USFWS, Supervisor of Oregon Fish and Wildlife Office

9:30 a.m. Conference Results and Summary Panel Theme: Presentation of Conference Findings and Results Relative to the Focus Questions Panel Chair: Steve
Mealey, Boise Cascade

Hal Salwasser, Dean, College of Forestry, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon
Jack Troyer, Regional Forester, Intermountain Region, USDA Forest Service, Ogden, Utah
Leslie Lehmann, Executive Director, Oregon Forest Resources Institute, Portland, Oregon

11:00 a.m. Closing