Recent Publications
In Press
Povak, N.A., Salter, R.B., Hessburg, P.F., Gray, R.W., and Prichard, S.J. In prep. Fences and corridors: Exploring system-level feedbacks in large landscape simulations of active fire regimes and reburning. Fire Ecology.
Prichard, S.J., Gray, R.W., Salter, R.B., Hessburg, P.F., and Povak, N. In prep. REBURN: landscape simulation modeling of fire and vegetation dynamics in semi-arid forests of western North America. Fire Ecology.
Povak, N.A., Prichard, S.J., and Griffey, V. In prep. Drivers of fire severity in recent wildfires of north central Washington State, USA. Ecosphere.
Hessburg, P.F., Povak, N.A., Salter, R.B., Furniss, T.J., Churchill, D.J., Hagmann, R.K., Lefevre, M.E., Meigs, G.W., Prichard, S.J., and Swanson, M.E. In prep. Nonforest patchworks – core elements of resilient forest landscapes. Environmental Research Letters.
2023
Batchelor, J.L., Rowell, E., Prichard, S., Nemens, D., Cronan, J., Kennedy, M.C. and Moskal, L.M., 2023. Quantifying forest litter fuel moisture content with terrestrial laser scanning. Remote Sensing 15(6): 1482. doi.org/10.3390/rs15061482
Cova, G., Kane, V., Prichard, S.J., Zald, H., and North, M. 2023. The outsized role of California’s largest wildfires in changing forest burn patterns and coarsening ecosystem scale. Forest Ecology and Management 528:120620.
Cova, G.R., Prichard, S.J., Rowell, E., Drye, B., Eagle, P., Kennedy, M.C. and Nemens, D.G., 2023. Evaluating close-range photogrammetry for 3D understory fuel characterization and biomass prediction in pine forests. Remote Sensing 15(19): 4837. doi.org/10.3390/rs15194837
Cullen, A.C., Prichard, S.J., Abatzoglou, J.T., Dolk, A., Kessenich, L., Bloem, S., Bukovsky, M.S., Humphrey, R., McGinnis, S., Skinner, H., & Mearns, L.O. 2023. Growing convergence research: Coproducing climate projections to inform proactive decisions for managing simultaneous wildfire risk. Risk Analysis 43: 2262–2279. doi.org/10.1111/risa.14113
Lemons, R.E., Prichard, S.J. & Kerns, B.K. 2023. Evaluating fireline effectiveness across large wildfire events in north-central Washington State. Fire Ecology 19:8. doi.org/10.1186/s42408-023-00167-6
Rocha, K.D., Silva, C.A., Cosenza, D.N., Mohan, M., Klauberg, C., Schlickmann, M.B., Xia, J., Leite, R.V., de Almeida, D.R.A., Atkins, J.W., Cardil, A., Rowell, E., Parsons, R. Sanchez-Lopez, N., Prichard, S.J., and Hudak, A.T. 2023. Crown-level structure and fuel load characterization from airborne and terrestrial laser scanning in a longleaf pine (Pinus palustris Mill.) forest ecosystem. Remote Sensing 15(4): 1002. doi.org/10.3390/rs15041002
2022
D’Evelyn, S., Masuda, Y., Alvarado, E., et al. including Prichard, S. 2022. Wildfire, smoke exposure, human health, and environmental justice need to be integrated into forest restoration and management. Current Environmental Health Reports.
Gaines, W., Hessburg, P., Aplet, G., Henson, P., Prichard, S., Churchill, D., Jones, G., Isaac, D.J., and Vynne, C. 2022. Climate change and the Northwest Forest Plan: managing for dynamic landscapes. Forest Ecology and Management 504: 119794.
Prichard, S.J. and Gaines, W. 2022. Wildfires in the PNW – present and future. Western Forester, December issue.
Prichard, S.J., Keane, R., Rowell, E., Hudak, A., Loudermilk, E.A., Lutes, D., Chappell, L, Hornsby, B., Hall, J., Ottmar, R.D. 2022. US Forest Service National Smoke Assessment: Fuels and Consumption. Springer.
Prichard, S.J., Rowell, E., Keane, R.E, Hudak, A.T., Lutes, D, and Loudermilk, E.L. 2022. Chapter 4: Wildland fuel characterization across space and time. In: French, N., Pruett, R., Lobata, T. Fire, Smoke and Health. American Geophysical Union, Wiley Press.
Rowell, E., Prichard, S.J., Varner, M.J. and Shearman, T.M. 2022. Re-envisioning fire and vegetation feedbacks. In: S. Goodrick and K. Speer Wildland Fire Dynamics. Cambridge University Press.
Stevens-Rumann, C.S., Prichard, S.J., Whitman, E., Parisien, M.A., and Meddens, A.J.H. 2022. Considering regeneration failure in the context of changing climate and disturbance regimes in western North America. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 52:1-22. https://cdnsciencepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/cjfr-2022-0054
2021
Baker, K., Barnhart, B., Bova, A., Brookes, A., Djuang, K., Farris, C., Halama, J., Holder, A., Koplitz, S., McKane, R, Nguyen, T.K., Pasquale, R., Phan, V., Pouliot, G., Prichard, S., Skelly, D., Tarnay, L., and Vukovich. 2021. Air quality modeling of case study fires. Chapter 7 In: Comparative Assessment of the Impacts of Prescribed Fire Versus Wildfire (CAIF): A Case Study in the Western U.S. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, EPA/600/R-21/197, 2021.
Hagmann, R. K., P. F. Hessburg, S. J. Prichard, N. A. Povak, P. M. Brown, P. Z. Fulé, R. E.Keane, E. E. Knapp, J. M. Lydersen, K. L. Metlen,
M. J. Reilly, A. J. Sánchez Meador, S. L. Stephens, J. T.Stevens, A. H. Taylor, L. L. Yocom, M. A. Battaglia, D. J. Churchill, L. D. Daniels, D. A. Falk,
P. Henson, J. D. Johnston, M. A. Krawchuk, C. R. Levine, G. W. Meigs, A. G. Merschel, M. P. North, H. D. Safford,T. W. Swetnam, and A. E. M. Waltz. 2021.
Evidence for widespread changes in the structure, composition,and fire regimes of western North American forests. Ecological Applications 00(00):e02431.
https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.2431
Hessburg, P.F., Prichard, S.J., Hagmann, R.K., Povak, N.A., and Lake, F.K. 2021.
Wildfire and climate change adaptation of western North American forests: a case for intentional management. Invited feature: Climate change and western
wildfires. Ecological Applications 00(00):e02432. https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.2432
Hudak, A.T., Bright, B.C., Rowell, E., Robertson, K., Pokwinski, S., Hiers, K, Prichard, S., Nowell, H, Holmes, C., Gargulinski, E.M., and Soja, A.J. 2021. Estimating surface fuel density from TLS and ALS: a two-tiered approach that accounts for sampling scale. Association of Fire Ecology Conference Proceedings.
Prichard, S.J. 2021. Fact Sheet: Adapting western North American forests to climate change and wildfires: Ten common questions. Ecological Restoration Institute, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona.
Prichard, S.J., Hessburg, P.F., Hagmann, R.K., Dobrowski, S., Povak, N.A., Hurteau, M.D., Kane, V.R., Keane, R.E., Kobziar, L.N., Kolden, C.A.,
North, M., Parks, S.A., Safford, H.D., Stevens, J.T., Yocom, L.L., Churchill, D.J., Gray, R.W., Huffman, D.W., Lake, F.K. and Khatri-Chhetri, P. 2021.
Adapting western North American forests to climate change and wildfires: ten common questions. Invited feature: Climate change and western
wildfires. Ecological Applications 00(00):e02432. https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.2433
2020
Cansler, C.A. , Hood, S.M., Varner, J.M., et al. including Prichard S.J. 2020. The fire and tree mortality database for empirical modeling of individual tree mortality after fire. Scientific Data 7:194. https://doi-org.offcampus.lib.washington.edu/10.1038/s41597-020-0522-7
Coop, J.D., Parks, S.A., Stevens-Rumann, C.S., Crausbay, S., Higuera, P.E., Hurteau, M.D., Tepley, A., Whitman, E., Assal, T., Collins, B.M., Davis, K.T., Dobrowski, S., Falk, D.A., Fornwalt, P.J., Fulé, P.Z., Harvey, B.J., Kane, V.R., Littlefield, C.E., Margolis, E.Q., North, M., Parisien, M,-A., Prichard, S., and Rodman, K.C. 2020. Wildfire-driven forest conversion in western North American landscapes. BioScience. biaa061, https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biaa061
Kennedy, M.C., Prichard, S.J., McKenzie, D. and French, N.K. 2020. Quantifying how sources of uncertainty in combustible biomass propagate to prediction of wildfire emissions. International Journal of Wildland Fire 29:793-806. https://doi.org/10.1071/WF19160
Prichard, S.J., Povak, N., Kennedy, M.C., and Peterson, D.W. 2020. Fuel treatment effectiveness following the 2014 Carlton Complex Fire in semi-arid forests of north-central Washington State. Ecological Applications. E02104. https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.2104
Hudak, A.T., Kato, A. Bright, B.C., Loudermilk, E.L., Ottmar, R.D., Hawley, C., Prichard, S.J., Rowell, E.M., Restaino, J., Axe, T. and Hayakawa, Y. 2020. Towards spatially explicit estimation of pre- and post-fire fuels and fuel consumption from traditional and point cloud measurements. Journal of Forestry. https://doi.org/10.1093/forsci/fxz085
Prichard, S.J., O’Neill, S.M., Urbanski, S., Eagle, P., Andreu, A. and Drye, B. 2020. Wildland fire emissions factors in North America: summary of existing datasets, measurement needs and management applications. International Journal of Wildland Fire 25, 10–24. https://doi.org/10.1071/WF19066
2019
Prichard, S.J., Kennedy, M.C., Andreu, A.G., Eagle, P.C. and French, N.H. 2019. Next-generation biomass mapping for regional emissions and carbon inventories: incorporating uncertainty in wildland fuel characterization. Journal of Geophysical Research – Biogeosciences. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JG005083
Soja, A., Hudak, A., Prichard, S., Triplett, S., Hiers, J.K., Ottmar, R.D. and Fischer, E.V. Fueled from below: linking fire, fuels and weather to WE-CAN. Proceedings of the 99th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting.
Gray, R.W., Christianson, A.C., Colwell, R., Hessburg, P. and Prichard, S.J. 2019. The future of prescribed burning in British Columbia. Feature article in BC Forest Professional March-April 2019.
Hessburg, P.F., Miller, C.L., Parks, S.A., Povak, N.A., Taylor, A.H., Higuera, P.E., Prichard, S.J., North, M.P., Collins, B.M., Hurteau, M.D., Larson, A.J., Allen, C.J., Stephens, S.L et al. 2019. Climate, environment, and disturbance history govern resilience of western North American forests. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 7:239. https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2019.00239
Liu, Y., Kochanski, A.K., Baker, K.R., Mell, W., Linn, R., Paugam, R., Mandel, J., Fournier, A., Jenkins, M.A., Goodrick, S., Achtemeier, G., Zhao, F., Ottmar, R., French, N., Larkin, N., Brown, T., Hudak, A., Dickinson, M., Potter, B., Clements, C., Urbanski, S., Prichard, S., Watts, A., and McNamara, D. 2019. Fire behavior and smoke modeling: Model improvement and measurement needs for next generation smoke research and forecasting systems. International Journal of Wildland Fire 28:570-588. https://doi.org/10.1071/WF18204
Picotte, J.J., Arkle, R.S., Bastian, H., Benson, H., Cansler, C.A., Caprio, T., Dillon, G., Key, C.H., Klein, R.N., Kopper, K., Meddens, A., Ohlen, D., Parks, S.A., Peterson, D.W., Pilliod, D.C., Prichard, S.J., Robertson, K.M., Sparks, A.M. and Thode, A.E. 2019. Composite burn index (CBI) data for the conterminous US collected between 1996 and 2018.
Prichard, S.J., Andreu, A.G., Ottmar, R.D. and Eberhardt, E. 2019. Fuel Characteristics Classification System (FCCS) field sampling and fuelbed development guide. US Forest Service PNW Research Station General Technical Report. PNW-GTR-972. https://www.fs.fed.us/pnw/pubs/pnw_gtr972.pdf
Prichard, S., Larkin, N.S., Ottmar, R., French, N.H.F., Baker, K., Brown, T., Clements, C., Dickinson, M., Hudak, A., Kochanski, A., Linn, R., Liu, Y., Potter, B., Mell, W., Tanzer, D., Urbanski, S. and Watts, A. 2019. The Fire and Smoke Model Evaluation Experiment—A Plan for Integrated, Large Fire–Atmosphere Field Campaigns. Atmosphere: 10: 66. https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos10020066
2018
Prichard, S.J., Hessburg, P, Gray, R., Povak, N, Salter, R.B., Stevens-Rumann, C. and Morgan, P. 2018. Evaluating the influence of prior burn mosaics on subsequent wildfire behavior, severity, and fire management options. Final report to the Joint Fire Sciences Program, Project 14-1-02-30. https://www.firescience.gov/projects/14-1-02-30/project/14-1-02-30_final_report.pdf
Smith, A.M., Kolden, C.A., Prichard, S.J., Gray, R.W., Hessburg, P.F. and Balch, J.K. 2018. Recognizing women leaders in fire science. Fire 1:30. https://doi.org/10.3390/fire1020030
2017
French, H.F., Prichard, S., Kennedy, M., Billmire, M., Andreu, A., Eagle, P., Swedin, K., Tanzer, D., Kasischke, E., Larkin, S., McKenzie, D. and Ottmar, R. 2017. Improving fuel characterization and maps useful for emissions modeling. Spring 2017 AFSC Remote Sensing Workshop: Opportunities to Apply Remote Sensing in Boreal/Arctic Wildfire Management and Science.
Hudak, A., Prichard, S., Keane, B., Loudermilk, L., Parsons, R., Seielstad, C., Rowell, E. and Skowronski, N. 2017. Hierarchical 3D fuel and consumption maps to support physics-based fire modeling. Final Report to the Joint Fire Science Program. Project 16-4-01-15.
Prichard, S.J., Kennedy, M.C., Wright, C.S., Cronan, J.B. and Ottmar, R.D. 2017. Predicting forest floor and woody fuel consumption from prescribed burns in southern and western pine ecosystems of the United States. Forest Ecology and Management 405: 328-338.
Prichard, S.J., Stevens-Rumann, C.S. and Hessburg, P.F. 2017. TAMM Review. Shifting global fire regimes: lessons from reburns and research needs. Forest Ecology and Management 396: 217-233. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foreco.2017.03.035
Kennedy, M.C. and Prichard, S.J. 2017. Choose your neighborhood wisely: implications of subsampling and autocorrelation structure in simultaneous autoregression models for landscape ecology. Landscape Ecology 32:945-952. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10980-017-0499-6
Prichard, S.J. 2017. It’s Impossible to Prevent Wildfires. So How Do We Prepare? Fortune Magazine. https://fortune.com/2017/10/19/california-wildfires-preparation.
2016
Prichard, S.J. 2016. Learning to live with wildfire: how communities can become ‘fire adapted.’ The Conversation. https://theconversation.com/learning-to-live-with-wildfires-how-communities-can-become-fire-adapted-59508.
Crosser, M.S., Gaiser, J.C. and Prichard, S. 2016. Crisscrossing science episode: fire-adapted ecosystems. Linfield College, Linfield, OR.
French, N.H.F., McKenzie, D., Erickson, T., Koziol, B., Billmire, M., Endsley, K.A., Scheinerman, N.K., Jenkins, L., Miller, M.E., Ottmar, R. and Prichard, S.J. 2016. Annual wildland fire emissions (WFEIS v 0.5) for conterminous US and Alaska, 2001-2013. ORNL DAAC.
French, N.H.F., Prichard, S., McKenzie, D., Kennedy, M.C., Billmire, M., Ottmar, R.D. and Kasischke, E.S. 2016. Carbon, fire, and fuels: The importance of fuels and fuel characterization and the status of wildland fire fuels data for the United States. AGU Fall Meeting.
Liu, Y., Kochanski, A., Baker, K., Mell, R., Linn, R., Paugman, R., Mandel, J., Fournier, A., Jenkins, M.A., Goodrick, S., Achtemeier, G., Hudak, A., Dickinson, M., Potter, B., Clements, C., Urbanski, S., Ottmar, R., Larkin, N., Brown, T., French, N., Prichard, S., Watts, A. and McNamara, D. 2016. Fire and Smoke Model Evaluation Experiment (FASMEE): Modeling Gaps and Data Needs. Proceedings for the 2nd International Smoke Symposium. November 14-17, 2016, Long Beach, California, USA
Ottmar, R.D., Hudak, A.T., Prichard, S.J., Wright, C.S., Restaino, J.C., Kennedy, M.C., and Vihnanek, R.E. 2016. Pre- and post-fire surface fuel and cover datasets collected in the southeastern United States for model evaluation and development – RxCADRE 2008, 2011, and 2012. International Journal of Wildland Fire. DOI:10.1071/WF15092
Stevens, J.T., Collins, B.M., Long, J.W., North, M.P., Prichard, S.J., Tarnay, L.W. and White, A.M. 2016. Evaluating potential tradeoffs among fuel treatment strategies in mixed-conifer forests of the Sierra Nevada. Ecosphere https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.1445
Stevens-Rumann, C.S., Prichard, S.J., Strand, E.K. and Morgan, P. 2016. Prior wildfires influence burn severity of subsequent large fires. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 6:1375-1385. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjfr-2016-0185.
2015
Gray, R.W. and Prichard, S.J. 2015. A tale of two fires: the relative effectiveness of past wildfires in mitigating wildfire behavior and effects. In: Keane, Robert E.; Jolly, Matt; Parsons, Russell; Riley, Karin. Proceedings of the large wildland fires conference; May 19-23, 2014; Missoula, MT. Proc. RMRS-P-73. Fort Collins, CO: US Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. p. 290-293.
2014
Amorim, J.H., Miranda, A.I., Valente, J., Marques, F., Borrego, C., Fernandes, J.M., Ottmar, R., Prichard, S.J., Andreu, A., Fernandes, P.M. and Cunha, J.P.S. 2014. Fire safety management based on integrated monitoring and forecast of smoke exposure. Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal.
French, H.F., McKenzie, D., Erickson, T., Koziol, B., Billmire, K., Endsley, A., Yager-Scheinerman, N.K, Jenkins, L, Miller, M.E., Ottmar, R.D., and Prichard, S.J. 2014. Modeling regional-scale wildland fire emissions with the Wildland Fire Emissions Inventory System Earth Interactions 18:1-26. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1175/EI-D-14-0002.1
Keane, R.E., Dillon, G., Drury, S., Innes, R., Morgan, P., Lutes, D., Prichard, S.J., Smith, J. and Strand, E. 2014. New and revised fire effects tools for fire management. Fire Management Today 73: 37-47.
Prichard, S.J. and Kennedy, M.C. 2014. Predicting fire severity following an extreme wildfire event: effects of fuel treatment, landform, and weather. Ecological Applications 24:571-590. https://doi.org/10.1890/13-0343.1
Prichard, S.J. and Ottmar, R.D. 2014. State of fire behavior models and their application to ecosystem and smoke management issues. SERDP/ESTCP Smoke Symposium Report. https://www.serdp- estcp.org/content/download/28268/278889/version/1/file/Smoke_Symposium_Report_Feb242014.pdf
Prichard, S.J., Karau, E., Ottmar, R.D., Wright, C., Cronan, J. and Keane, R. 2014. Evaluation of the CONSUME and FOFEM fuel consumption models in pine and mixed hardwood forests of the eastern United States. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 44: 784-795. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjfr-2013-0499.
Stevens-Rumann, C., Prichard, S. and Morgan, P. 2014. The effects of previous wildfires on subsequent wildfire behavior and post-wildfire recovery. Northern Rockies Fire Science Network Science Review No. 1. https://www.nrfirescience.org/sites/default/files/NRFSNSciReview1_RepeatFires.pdf
French, N.H.F. McKenzie, D. Erickson, T., Koziol, B., Billmire, M., Endsley, K.A., Yager, N.A., Scheinerman, L.J., Miller, M.E., Ottmar, R. and Prichard, S.J. 2014. Modeling regional-scale wildland fire emissions with the Wildland Fire Emissions Information System. Earth Interactions 18:1-26. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1175/EI-D-14-0002.1
2013
Pettinari, M.L., Ottmar, R.D., Prichard, S.J., Andreu, A.G., and Chuvieco, E. 2013. Development and mapping of fuel characteristics and associated fire potentials for South America. International Journal of Wildland Fire 23:643-654. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1071/WF12137.
Prichard, S.J., Sandberg, D.V., Ottmar, R.D., Andreu, A., Eagle, P., and Swedin, K. 2013. Fuel Characteristic Classification System version 3.0: technical documentation. PNW-GTR-887. US Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station, Portland, OR.
Prichard, S.J. and Peterson, D.L. 2013. Landscape analysis of fuel treatment longevity and effectiveness in the 2006 Tripod Complex Fires. Final report to the Joint Fire Sciences Program, Project 09-1-1-09. https://www.firescience.gov/projects/09-1-01-19/project/09-1-01-19_final_report.pdf
2012
Parresol, B.R., Scott, J.H., Andreu, A., Prichard, S. and Kurth, L. 2012. Developing custom fire behavior fuel models from ecologically complex fuel structures for upper Atlantic Coastal Plain forests. Forest Ecology and Management 273:50-57. https://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/pubs/ja/2012/ja_2012_parresol_002.pdf
Prichard, S.J. and Kennedy, M.C. 2012. Fuel treatment effects on postfire tree mortality and beetle attack in dry mixed conifer forests, Washington State, USA. International Journal of Wildland Fire 21: 1004-1013. https://www.fs.fed.us/pnw/pubs/journals/pnw_2012_prichard001.pdf
Ottmar, R.D., Prichard, S.J. Parresol, B.R. 2012. Fuel treatment effectiveness in forests of the Upper Atlantic Coastal Plain – an evaluation at two spatial scales. Forest Ecology and Management 272: 17-28. https://www.fs.fed.us/pnw/pubs/journals/pnw_2012_ottmar002.pdf
Hollingsworth, L.T., Kurth, L.L., Parresol, B.R., Ottmar, R.D., Prichard, S.J. 2012. A comparison of geospatially modeled fire behavior and fire management utility of three data sources in the southeastern United States. Forest Ecology and Management 273: 43-49. https://www.fs.fed.us/rm/pubs_other/rmrs_2012_hollingsworth_l001.pdf
2011
Allain, M., Nguyen, A., Johnson, E., Williams, E., Tsai, S., Prichard, S., Freed, T., and Skiles, J. 2011. A geospatial assessment of mountain pine beetle infestations and their effect on forest health on Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest. Proceedings of the American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, Bethesda, MD.
Prichard, S.J., Sandberg, D.V., Ottmar, R.D. and Campbell, P.W. 2011. FCCS User’s Guide v 2.0. USDA Forest Service Pacific Wildland Fire Sciences Laboratory, Seattle, WA.
2010 and earlier
Hollis, J.J., Matthews, S., Ottmar, R.D., Prichard, S.J., Slijepcevic, A., Burrows, N.D., Ward, B., Tolhurst, K.G., Anderson, W.R., and Gould, J.S. 2010. Testing woody fuel consumption models for application in Australian southern eucalypt forest fires. Forest Ecology and Management. 260: 948-964. https://www.fs.fed.us/pnw/pubs/journals/pnw_2010_hollis001.pdf
Prichard, S.J., Peterson, D.L. and Jacobson, K. 2010. Fuel treatments alter the effects of wildfire in dry mixed conifer forest, north-central Washington, USA. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 40:1615-1626. https://www.fs.fed.us/pnw/pubs/journals/pnw_2009_prichard002.pdf
Prichard, S.J. and Peterson, D.L. 2010. Lessons learned from the 2006 Tripod Complex Fires: did fuel treatments reduce wildfire severity? Final report to the Joint Fire Sciences Program, Project 07-01-13.
Justice, E., Cheung, B., Danse, W., Myrick, K., Willis, M., Prichard, J. and Skiles, J. 2009. Effects of fuel treatments on carbon flux during a wildfire using satellite imagery: Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest. Proceedings of the ASPRS 2009 Annual Conference. Baltimore, MD.
Ottmar, R.D., Wright, C. and Prichard, S.J. 2009. A suite of fire, fuels, and smoke management tools. Fire Management Today 69: 34-39.
Prichard, S.J., Gedalof, Z., Oswald, W.W., and Peterson, D.L. 2009. Holocene fire and vegetation dynamics in a montane forest, North Cascade Range, Washington, USA. Quaternary Research 72:57-67. https://www.fs.fed.us/pnw/pubs/journals/pnw_2009_prichard001.pdf
Prichard, S.J. and Peterson, D.L. 2009. Landscape analysis of fuel treatment longevity and effectiveness in the 2006 Tripod Complex fires. Final Report to the Joint Fire Science Program. Project 09-1-01-09.
Prichard, S.J., Wright, C.S., Vihnanek, R.E., and Ottmar, R.D. 2008. Predicting forest floor and woody fuel consumption from prescribed burns in ponderosa pine forests. Proceedings of the Fire Behavior and Fuels Conference, Nov. 13-17, San Diego, CA.
Shiffman, B., Newcomer, M., Delgado, D., Gantenbein, C., Wang, T., Prichard, S., Schmidt, C. and Skiles, J. 2008. Burn severity assessment in the Okanogan-Wenatchee Forest using NASA satellite missions. Proceedings of the AGU Fall Meeting, San Francisco, CA.
Ottmar, R.D., Sandberg, D.V., Riccardi, C.L., and Prichard, S.J. 2007. An overview of the Fuel Characteristic Classification System – quantifying, classifying, and creating fuelbeds for resource planning. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 40:2383-2393. https://www.fs.fed.us/pnw/pubs/journals/pnw_2007_ottmar001.pdf
Prichard, S.J. 2007. Consume user’s guide. http:/www.fs.fed.us/pnw/fera/research/smoke/consume/consume30_users_guide.pdf
Riccardi, C.L., Prichard, S.J., Sandberg, D.V. and R.D. Ottmar. 2007. Calculating physical characteristics of wildland fuels in the Fuel Characteristic Classification System. Canadian Journal of Forest Research 37: 2413-2420. https://www.fs.fed.us/pnw/pubs/journals/pnw_2007_riccardi001.pdf
Ottmar, R.D., Prichard, S.J., Vihnanek, R., Sandberg, D.V., Bluhn, B. 2006. Modification and validation of fuel consumption models for shrub and forested lands in the Southwest. USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, Pacific Wildland Fire Sciences Laboratory, Final Report JFSP-98-1-9-06. Seattle, WA.
Prichard, S.J., Ottmar, R.D. and Anderson, G.K. 2006. Consume 3.0 User’s Guide. USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, Seattle, WA.
Prichard, S.J., Wright, C.S., Vihnanek, R.E., Ottmar, R.D. 2006. Predicting forest floor and woody consumption from prescribed burns in ponderosa forests. Proceedings of the Third International Fire Ecology and Management Conference: Fire as a Global Process. San Diego, CA.
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