To Burn or Not to Burn: Summary of the Forum on Urban/Wildland Fire, January 26, 2001, Washington, DC (2001)

Friday, January 26, 2001

National Academy of Sciences

2100 C Street, NW

Washington, DC

Lecture Room

Morning session: Rutherford H. Platt, Moderator

9:00 a.m. Welcome and introductions

Rutherford H. Platt, Chair

9:10 a.m. Creating an Ecological Omelette: How we got out of an agrarian frying pan and into and exurban fire

Stephen J. Pyne, Arizona State University

9:50 a.m. What are the trends in wildland fires and what is the future for increased fires/risk?

William A. Patterson, III, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

10:30 a.m. Break

10:45 a.m. Fires in the wildland urban interface: Dilemmas of duality and the role of national science leadership

Dave Cleaves, USDA Forest Service

11:25 a.m. Addressing the wildland-urban interface fire problem in Canada through forest firebehavior research

Martin E. Alexander, Canadian Forest Service

12:05 p.m. Lunch (cafeteria available)

Afternoon session: Wilfred D. Iwan, Moderator

1:15 p.m. Wildfires and insurance

Paul Kovacs, Insurance Bureau of Canada

1:55 p.m. Land use issues

Raymond J. Burby, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

2:35 p.m. Case study: Los Alamos

Kelly K. Carpenter, Los Alamos County, New Mexico

3:15 p.m. Break

3:30 p.m. Discussion with speakers

Mary Fran Myers, Moderator

4:30 p.m. Wrap up

Jim Bruce, NDR Steering Committee and Chris Topik, Staff, U.S. House of Representatives, Appropriations Committee

5:00 p.m. Adjourn