United States Department of Agriculture Proceedings of the Symposium Forest Service on Fire and Watershed Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Experiment Station Management General Technical Report PSW-109 October 26-28, 1988, Sacramento, California Neil H. Berg, Technical Coordinator Berg, Neil H., technical coordinator. 1989. Proceedings of the symposium on fire and watershed management; October 26-28,1988; Sacramento, California. Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-109. Berkeley, CA: Pacific South- west Forest and Range Experiment Station, Forest Service, U.S. Depart- ment of Agriculture; 164 p. The proceedings is a collection of papers presented at the Symposium on Fire and Watershed Management—the second biennial conference of the Watershed Management Council—held in Sacramento, California, October 26-28, 1988. Included are two luncheon addresses, seven papers on land use decisions and fire risk, eight papers on effects of fire on watersheds, eight papers on resource recovery, and fifteen poster papers that offer perspectives from research, technology applications, and land and resource management. Retrieval Terms: fire management, resource recovery, resource rehabilita- tion, watershed management Authors took responsibility for preparing papers in camera-ready format. Views expressed in each paper are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the sponsoring organizations. Trade names and commercial enterprises mentioned are solely for information and do not imply the endorsement of the sponsoring organizations. Publisher: Pacific Southwest Forest and Range Experiment Station P.O. Box 245, Berkeley, California 94701 March 1989 Berg, Neil H., technical coordinator. 1989. Proceedings of the symposium on fire and watershed management; October 26-28,1988; Sacramento, California. Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW- 109. Berkeley, CA: Pacific South- westForest andRangeExgerimentStation, Forest Service,U.S. Depart- ment of Agriculture; 164 p. The proceedings is a collection of papers presented at the Symposium on Fire and Watershed Mmagement-the second biennial conference of the Watershed Management Council-held in Sacramento, California,October 26-28,1988. Included are two luncheon addresses, seven papers on land use decisions and fire risk, eight papers on effects of fire on watersheds, eight pagers on resource recovery, and fifteen poster papers that offer perspectives from research, technology applications, and land and resource management. Retrieval Terms: fire management, resource recovery, resource rehabilita- tion, watershed management Authors took responsibility for preparing papers in camera-ready format. Views expressed in each paper are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the sponsoring organizations. Trade names and commercial enterprises mentioned are solely for information and do not imply the endorsement of the sponsoring organizations. AD-83 Bookplate Publisher: ("a*) March W889 Proceedings of the Symposium on Fire and Watershed Management October 26-28, 1988, Sacramento, California Neil H. Berg Technical Coordinator CONTENTS Foreword ............................................................................................................................... v Opening Remarks.................................................................................................................. vi Luncheon Addresses Timber Salvage Operations and Watershed Resource Values ............................................. 1 Paul F. Barker Current and Future Wildland Fire Protection Impacts of the Wildland-Urban Interface ...... 3 Harold R. Walt Technical Papers Land Use Decisions and Fire Risk ....................................................................................... 9 Wildfire in the Pacific West: A Brief History and Implications for the Future ................ 11 James K. Agee Use of Prescribed Fire to Reduce Wildfire Potential ....................................................... 17 Robert E. Martin, J. Boone Kauffman, and Joan D. Landsberg The Effects of Prescribed Burning on Fire Hazard in the Chaparral: Toward a New Conceptual Synthesis ............................................................................... 23 Anthony T. Dunn Cost-Effective Fire Management for Southern California's Chaparral Wilderness: An Analytical Procedure ................................................................................................. 30 Chris A. Childers and Douglas D. Piirto Demography: A Tool for Understanding the Wildland-Urban Interface Fire Problem ..... 38 James B. Davis i Controlled Burns on the Urban Fringe, Mount Tamalpais, Marin County, California .... 43 Thomas E. Spittler Synthesis and Summary: Land Use Decisions and Fire Risk ......................................... 49 Theodore E. Adams, Jr. Effects of Fire on Watersheds .......................................................................................... 53 Effects of Fire on Chaparral Soils in Arizona and California and Postfire Management Implications .......................................................................... 55 Leonard F. DeBano Soil Hydraulic Characteristics of a Small Southwest Oregon Watershed Following High- Intensity Wildfire .......................................................................................................... 63 David S. Parks and Terrance W. Cundy Frequency of Floods from a Burned Chaparral Watershed.............................................. 68 Iraj Nasseri Application of SAC88 to Estimating Hydrologic Effects of Fire on a Watershed .......... 72 R. Larry Ferral Stream Shading, Summer Streamflow and Maximum Water Temperature Following Intense Wildfire in Headwater Streams ......................................................................... 75 Michael Amaranthus, Howard Jubas, and David Arthur Effects of Fire Retardant on Water Quality .................................................................... 79 Logan A. Norris and Warren L. Webb Maximizing Vegetation Response on Management Burns by Identifying Fire Regimes 87 V. Thomas Parker The Effects of Fire on Watersheds: A Summary ............................................................ 92 Nicholas Dennis Resource Recovery ........................................................................................................... 95 Emergency Bum Rehabilitation: Cost, Risk, and Effectiveness ..................................... 97 Scott R. Miles, Donald M. Haskins, and Darrel W. Ranken Emergency Watershed Protection Measures in Highly Unstable Terrain on the Blake Fire, Six Rivers National Forest, 1987................................................................ 103 Mark E. Smith and Kenneth A. Wright Emergency Watershed Treatments on Burned Lands in Southwestern Oregon ............ 109 Ed Gross, Ivars Steinblums, Curt Ralston, and Howard Jubas Wildfire, Ryegrass Seeding, and Watershed Rehabilitation ......................................... 115 RD. Taskey, CL. Curtis, and J. Stone Rationale for Seeding Grass on the Stanislaus Complex Burn ..................................... 125 Earl C. Ruby ii Watershed Response and Recovery from the Will Fire: Ten Years of Observation ...... 131 Kenneth B. Roby Compatibility of Timber Salvage Operations with Watershed Values .......................... 137 Roger J. Poff Rehabilitation and Recovery Following Wildfires: A Synthesis .................................. 141 Lee MacDonald Poster Papers .................................................................................................................... 145 Population Structure Analysis in the Context of Fire: A Preliminary Report ....................... 147 Jeremy John Ahouse Effect of Grass Seeding and Fertilizing on Surface Erosion in Two Intensely Burned Sites in Southwest Oregon .................................................................................................. 148 Michael P. Amaranthus Postfire Erosion and Vegetation Development in Chaparral as Influenced by Emergency Revegetation-A Study in Progress....................................................................................... 150 Susan G. Conard, Peter M. Wohlgemuth, Jane A. Kertis, Wade G. Wells II, and Susan C. Barro Chaparral Response to Burning: A Summer Wildfire Compared with Prescribed Burns ..... 151 Daniel O. Kelly, V. Thomas Parker, and Chris Rogers Fire Rehabilitation Techniques on Public Lands in Central California ............................... 152 John W. Key Distribution and Persistence of Hydrophobic Soil Layers on the Indian Burn ..................... 153 Roger J. Poff Fire Hazard Reduction, Watershed Restoration at the University of California, Berkeley ............................................................................................................................. 154 Carol L. Rice and Robert Charbonneau Soil Movement After Wildfire in Taiga (Discontinuous Permafrost) Upland Forest ........... 155 Charles W. Slaughter Fire and Archaeology ......................................................................................................... 156 Larry Swan and Charla Francis Modeling Fire and Timber Salvage Effects for the Silver Fire Recovery Project in Southwestern Oregon ......................................................................................................... 157 Jon Vanderheyden, Lee Johnson, Mike Amaranthus, and Linda Batten Maximizing Chaparral Vegetation Response to Prescribed Burns: Experimental Considerations .............................................................................................