Proceedings of the Symposium on Fire Economics , Planning , and Policy : Bottom Lines

González-Cabán, Armando; Omi, Philip N., technical coordinators. 1999. Proceedings of the symposium on fire economics, planning, and policy: bottom lines; 1999 April 59; San Diego, CA. Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-GTR-173. Albany, CA: Pacific Southwest Research Station, Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture; 332 p. These proceedings summarize the results of a symposium designed to address current issues of agencies with wildland fire protection responsibility at the Federal and State levels. The topics discussed at the symposium include fire economics, planning, and policy on wildfire and prescribed fire. Representatives from several international organizations presented the experiences in their countries on the same issues. Forty-five invited papers and 12 posters were presented at the symposium that described the issues and presented state-of-the-art techniques to address technical issues on fire economics, planning, and policy currently facing land and fire managers. Retrieval Terms: fire economics, fire simulation models, prescribed fire, resource valuation, strategic fire planning, wildfire costs, wildland fire policy Technical Coordinators Armando González-Cabán is Economist with the Fire Management in the Wildland/ Urban Interface Research Unit at the Pacific Southwest Research Station, USDA Forest Service, 4955 Canyon Crest Dr., Riverside, CA 92507. Philip N. Omi is Professor, Department of Forest Sciences, and Director, Western Fire Research Center, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523. Acknowledgments Many people and institutions contributed to the sucess of this symposium. It is difficult to list them all, but the following persons and groups deserve special recognition. First, we thank our sponsors, in particular the USDA Forest Service's Pacific Southwest Research Station, and Aviation and Fire Management staff, Washington Office, for their financial support. We also thank the Colorado State University Division of Educational Outreach for processing registrations; the International Association of Wildland Fire for providing mailing lists and advertising the activity; and the Society of American Foresters for providing continuing education credits for attending the symposium and providing advertising for the activity. Thanks to all authors during the long process of manuscript preparation, editing, and production. There are four individuals deserving special recognition: Nikki Omi for her untiring work securing the proper venue for the activity and making sure that everything went smoothly, Yang Hang for the wonderful job he did developing the symposium website, Lola Thomas for revising manuscripts once they were edited, and special thanks to Laurie Dunn for her superb job in editing all of the manuscripts for this proceedings. Proceedings of the Symposium on Fire Economics, Planning, and Policy: Bottom Lines April 5-9, 1999 San Diego, California Armando González-Cabán Philip N. Omi Technical Coordinators