Chad Hoffman, Instructor College of
Natural Resource
Roger Ottmar,
Pacific Wildland Fire Sciences Laboratory
USDA Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station
and
Alistair
Smith, PhD
College of Natural Resources,
In this class we will explore the the purpose and limitations
of both current and past approaches to fuels inventory and mapping, review
field techniques of conducting a fuels inventory, discuss the ecological
role of woody debris in terrestrial ecosystems, use the fuels
characterization classification system (FCCS) to analyze fuels inventory
data, review the effects of forest operations on coarse woody debris and
forest structure at the stand level and the landscape level and relate the
effects of forest treatments to fire behavior. In addition we will cover
fuels mapping techniques including LIDAR and satellite imagery such as
Landsat and ASTER.
This class is a Hybrid course with 11 weeks of online material and one week
of workshop material.
