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Contact:

Dr Alistair Smith

alistair [at] uidaho.edu

208-885-1009

Chad M. Hoffman

401 Course Instructor

Department of Forest Resources
College of Natural Resources
University of Idaho

Email: chadh (at) uidaho.edu
Phone: 208-885-7115

 


Teaching:

 

FOR 426: Fire Ecology and Management (3cr. online version): Integrated fire-related biological, ecological, physical, and economic information for land managers; autecology and synecology of plant and animal species in wildlands; natural role of fire; fire as a management tool; application to current issues.

FOR 433 Science-Based Fuels Management Planning (2 cr). Potential, limitations, and application of recently developed tools for assessing fuels and ecological consequences of alternative approaches to fuels management.

FOR 434: Assessing Fire Effects and Burn Severity (2cr). Terminology and methods for assessing fire effects and burn severity in the field and from airborne and satellite remote sensing. Quantitative analysis and interpretation of the ecological impacts of fires on plants and soils. Critically review and synthesize relevant scientific literature.

 

FOR 451: Fuels Inventory and Mapping (3cr). In-depth analysis of recent developments in remote sensing, as well as tools to support fuels planning, including potential and limitations of mapping fuels with Lidar and from satellite imagery such as Landsat and ASTER (with and without gradient modeling). Application of tools for characterizing fuels over large, diverse areas. Quantitative analysis and interpretation of the ecological impacts of fires on plants and soils.


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