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Friday, 3:30pm

Share and discuss lessons learned from recent wildfires that have burned into forest treatments designed to alter fire severity and fire behavior.  Discuss practical methods that practitioners can use to document both assumptions and learning to further advance our understanding and facilitate adaptive management. Discuss how to develop adaptive management learning plans – tools and examples.

Each speaker will provide a brief introduction to their case study, including the landscape context, treatment assumptions, lessons learned, and the approach or tool for learning the lessons.  Session participants will then engage in a facilitated discussion about lessons learned from diverse landscapes and how our assumptions can be tested.  Participants will be introduced to effective methods for designing and documenting learning, and will participate in discussions of how treatments affect fire behavior and fire effects.

Speakers

• Lynn Jungwirth, Executive Director, Watershed Research and Training Center
  Learning From the Landscape: 2008 Trinity Mountain Fires (Emergent Learning Mode)

• Bill Wickman, Member Quincy Library Group and Private Consultant,
  Learning From the Landscape: 2006-2008 Sierra Nevada Fires (Research Design Mode)

Moderator

Jeremy Bailey,  Fire Training and Networks Coordinator - West, Fire Learning Network, The Nature Conservancy

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Jeremy Bailey

Jeremy Bailey, a Fire Training and Network Coordinator for The Nature Conservancy, has worked in Fuels, Fire and Emergency management for the past 15 years. Studying philosophy and psychology in college, he has spent most of his time serving as a firefighter on municipal fire departments, wildland engines, Hotshot and Helitack crews as well as Fire Use Modules. He has wildfire and prescribed fire experience in 24 different states around the country. He is qualified as a burn boss, helicopter manager and taskforce leader. Jeremy currently helps train Conservancy, federal and private fire practitioners by providing a wide assortment of Trainee opportunities on prescribed fires around the US and also helps teach at fire academies and NWCG courses. He works closely with the Fire Learning Networks as a coordinator and workshop facilitator.

Lynn Jungwirth

Lynn Jungwirth was born and raised in a milling and logging family in a small timber town in Oregon. She received a BA from the University of Oregon in 1971. She has been an activist on social issues in forest towns for twenty years. She has worked with various community groups interested in rebuilding forest dependent communities in northern California. Currently she is the Executive Director of the Watershed Research and Training Center (WRTC) in Hayfork, Ca. The mission of WRTC, which is a community-based organization, is to promote sustainable ecosystems and sustainable communities through research, training, education and economic development. She served on the Collaborative Stewardship Taskforce of Forest Service Chief Mike Dombeck and on the Board of Directors for the National Network of Forest Practitioners. Lynn also chaired the Communities Committee of the 7th American Forest Congress from 1996 to 2000.

Bill Wickman

Bill Wickman is a Private Consultant and holds a BA and MS in Physical Geography.  He retired from the Forest Service with 32 years experience as a Soil Scientist, Logging Engineer and Timber and Service Contracting Specialist.  He has been retired for 7 years and has stayed active nationally in Stewardship Contracting, Mechanical Fuel Treatments as well as assistance to Community Collaborative groups.  He is also a member of the Quincy Library Group.  This group has been active for over 10 years in bringing together industry, environmental, local businesses, local Government and Federal Agencies in an effort to work collaboratively on fuel reduction and watershed improvement projects over 2.5 million acres in Northeastern California.
Bill is also the Director of Natural Resource Management for the Northwest Procurement Institute, Inc. of Edmonds, Washington.  He directs and leads training in Stewardship contracting and has taught federal agencies, contractors and partnerships to gain an understanding and working knowledge of the Stewardship Legislation that took effect in 2003.  He has worked as a contractor on 5 National Forest to develop their Stewardship Contracts.  Prior to 2003 Bill was a member of the Pacific Coast Stewardship Monitoring Team and assisted the Pinchot Institute in their effort of monitoring the Pilot Stewardship program from 1999 to 2002.  In 2000, he was a member of the Forest Service team during the Senate Sub-Committee hearings on Stewardship Contracting.  Bill developed and lead National training on the Forest Service’ Service Contract with Product Removal which was the predecessor to the Stewardship Contract.
Bill most recently was on the committee to set up the forum titled California Burning; It’s Time To Clear The Air, held at the State Capital on August 13, 2008.