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Compass December 2006
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Compass is a quarterly publication of the USDA Forest Service's Southern Research Station (SRS). As part of the Nation's largest forestry research organization -- USDA Forest Service Research and Development -- SRS serves 13 Southern States and beyond. The Station's 130 scienists work in more than 20 units located across the region at Federal laboratories, universites, and experimental forests.



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Recommended Reading

Most technical reports and articles listed below are available in full text from the SRS publications database at http://www.srs.fs.usda.gov/pubs/, or from TreeSearch, the Forest Service research publication database, at http://www.treesearch.fs.fed.us/.

Products of the SRS Southern Center for Wildland-Urban Interface Research and Information can be found at www.interfacesouth.usda.gov/.

Seeing the Houses Through the Trees

Macie, E.A.; Hermansen, L.A., eds. 2002. Human influences on forest ecosystems: the southern wildlandurban interface assessment. Gen. Tech. Rep. SRS–55. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Southern Research Station. 159 p.

Monroe, M.C.; Bowers, A.W.; Hermansen, L.A. 2003. The moving edge: perspectives on the southern interface, southern wildland-urban interface assessment focus group report. Gen. Tech. Rep. SRS–63. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Southern Research Station. 35 p.

Vince, S.W.; Duryea, M.L.; Macie, E.A.; Hermansen, L.A. 2005. Forests at the wildland-urban interface: conservation and management. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press. 293 p.

Wear, D.N.; Greis, J.G. 2002. Southern forest resource assessment. Gen. Tech. Rep. SRS–53. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Southern Research Station. 103 p.

A Tale of Two Towns

Johnson, C.Y.; Bowker, J.M. 2004. African American land memories. Environmental Ethics. 26: 57-75.

Johnson, C.Y.; Floyd, M.F. 2006. A tale of two towns: black and white municipalities respond to urban growth in the South Carolina lowcountry. Human Ecology Review. 13(1): 23-38.

Blazing Landscapes

Miller, S. R.; Wade, D.D. 2003. Reintroducing fire at the urban/wildland interface: planning for success. Forestry. 76(2): 253-259.

Mohr, H. H.; Waldrop, T. A. 2006. A simulation of wildfire behavior in piedmont forests. In: Gen. Tech. Rep. SRS-92. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Research Station. pp. 507-509.

Outcalt, K. W.; Wade, D. D. 2004. Fuels management reduces tree mortality from wildfires in southeastern United States. Journal of Applied Forestry. J. 28(1):28-34.

Waldrop, T. A.; Mohr, H. H.; Brose, P. H. 2006. Early dynamics of Table Mountain pine stands following stand-replacement prescribed fires of varying intensity. In: Gen. Tech. Rep. SRS-92. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Research Station. pp. 471-474.

Smoke Gets in Your Eyes

Achtemeier, G.L. 2005. Planned burn-Piedmont. A local operational numerical meteorological model for tracking smoke on the ground at night: model development and sensitivity tests. International Journal of Wildland Fire. 14: 1-14.

Achtemeier, G.L.; Goodrick, S.; Liu, Y. 2005. A coupled modeling system for connecting prescribed fire activity data through CMAQ for simulating regional scale air quality. In: EastFIRE conference proceedings. Fairfax, VA: George Mason University. [Number of pages unknown].

Liu, Y.; Achtemeier, G.L.; Goodrick, S. 2005. Simulation and experiment of air quality effects of prescribed fires in the Southeast. In: EastFIRE conference proceedings. Fairfax, VA: George Mason University: 1-4.

Time to Burn

Butry, D.T.; Prestemon, J.P. 2005. Spatio-temporal wildland arson crime functions. Selected paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Agricultural Economics Association, July 26-29, 2005, Providence, RI. 28 p.

Prestemon, J.P.; Butry, D.T. 2005. Time to burn: modeling wildland arson as an autoregressive crime function. American Journal of Agricultural Economics. 87(3): 756-770.

Changing Roles: WUI Professional Development Program

Macie, E.A.; Hermansen, L.A., eds. 2002. Human influences on forest ecosystems: the southern wildlandurban interface assessment. Gen. Tech. Rep. SRS–55. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Southern Research Station. 159 p.

Monroe, M.C.; McDonell, L.W.; Hermansen, L.A., eds. 2006. Changing roles: wildland-urban interface professional development program. Gainesville, FL: University of Florida. [Number of pages unknown]. [Training notebook].

Landscaping to Reduce Fire

Risk Behm, A.L.; Long, A.J.; Monroe, M.C. [and others]. 2006. Fire in the wildlandurban interface: preparing a firewise plant list for WUI residents. Gainesville, FL: University of Florida, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences; U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Southern Research Station, Southern Center for Wildland-Urban Interface Research and Information. 7 p.

Doran, J.D.; Randall, C.K.; Long, A.J. 2005. Fire in the wildland-urban interface: selecting and maintaining firewise plants for landscaping. Gainesville, FL: University of Florida, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences; U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Southern Research Station, Southern Center for Wildland-Urban Interface Research and Information. 7 p.

Tips for Reducing Wildfire Risk While Achieving Other Landscaping Goals

Randall, C.K.; Hermansen-Báez, L.A.; Acomb, G. 2005. Fire in the wildlandurban interface: reducing wildfire risk while achieving other landscaping goals. Gainesville, FL: University of Florida, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences; U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Southern Research Station, Southern Center for Wildland-Urban Interface Research and Information. 7 p.

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