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CLINTON S. WRIGHT
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USDA Forest Service
Pacific Northwest Research Station
Pacific Wildland Fire Sciences Laboratory
400 North 34th Street, Suite 201
Seattle, WA 98103 (USA)
(206) 732-7827
(206) 732-7801
[email protected]
www.fs.fed.us/pnw/fera
EDUCATION
1996
University of Washington, College of Forest Resources -- Seattle, WA
M.S., Forest Ecosystem Analysis
1991
Pomona College -- Claremont, CA
B.A., Biology
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2001 – Present
1997 – 2001
1996 – 1997
1994 – 1996
1993 – 1994
1991 – 1993
USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station
Research Forester
USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station
Forester
Duane Hartman and Associates, Inc.
Survey Party Chief
University of Washington, College of Forest Resources
Graduate Research Assistant
USDA Forest Service, Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest
Biological Science Technician
Permit/Engineering, Inc.
Environmental Technician/Survey Technician.
SCIENTIFIC INTERESTS
Fire Ecology
Fire History
Dendrochronology
Fire Effects
Fuel Characterization
Disturbance Ecology
Fire/Climate Interactions
Primary Succession
Arid Western Forests
Prescribed Fire
Ecological Restoration
Fire/Vegetation Dynamics
OTHER QUALIFICATIONS
Wildland Firefighter (S-130/S-190; FFT2) - current 2005
Intermediate Wildland Fire Behavior (S-290; 1998)
Wildland Fire Chainsaws (S-212) – certified ‘B’ faller (2004)
Member Xi Sigma Pi (Alpha Chapter), National Forestry Honor Society - since 1995
USFS - Pacific Northwest Research Station - Civil Rights Action Group representative - March 2004 to present
Field research experience in a wide variety of disciplines and ecosystem types
COMPETITIVELY FUNDED RESEARCH
Fuel consumption and flammability thresholds in shrub-dominated ecosystems. Joint Fire Science Program (2003)
$500,000
Digital photo series. Joint Fire Science Program (2004) $271,500
PUBLICATIONS
WRIGHT, C.S. 1996. Fire history of the Teanaway River drainage, Washington. Master of Science Thesis.
University of Washington, Seattle, Washington. 190 p.
WRIGHT, C.S. AND J.K. AGEE. 1998. Fire history in the east Cascade Mountains of Washington. In: Fire and
wildlife in the Pacific Northwest: research, policy and management, presented by the Wildlife Society, April 68, 1998, Spokane, Washington. pp. 110-117.
CLINTON S. WRIGHT (CONTINUED)
PUBLICATIONS (CONTINUED)
OTTMAR, R.D., R.E. VIHNANEK AND C.S. WRIGHT. 1999. Stereo photo series for quantifying natural fuels. Volume
I: mixed-conifer with mortality, western juniper, sagebrush and grassland types in the interior Pacific
Northwest. PMS 830. National Wildfire Coordinating Group, Interagency Fire Center, Boise, Idaho. 73 p.
OTTMAR, R.D., R.E. VIHNANEK AND C.S. WRIGHT. 2000. Stereo photo series for quantifying natural fuels. Volume
III: lodgepole pine, quaking aspen, and gambel oak ecosystem types in the Rocky Mountains. PMS 832.
National Wildfire Coordinating Group, Interagency Fire Center, Boise, Idaho. 85 p.
OTTMAR, R.D., R.E. VIHNANEK AND C.S. WRIGHT. 2000. Stereo photo series for quantifying natural fuels. Poster
presented at Fire Conference 2000: The First National Congress on Fire Ecology, Prevention, and Management,
November 27-December 1, 2000, San Diego, California.
WRIGHT, C.S., R.D. OTTMAR, R.E. VIHNANEK AND D.R. WEISE. 2002. Stereo photo series for quantifying natural
fuels: grassland, shrubland, woodland, and forest types in Hawaii. USDA Forest Service, General Technical
Report, PNW-GTR-545. 91 p.
AGEE, J.K., C.S. WRIGHT, N. WILLIAMSON AND M.H. HUFF. 2002. Foliar moisture content of Pacific Northwest
vegetation and its relation to wildland fire behavior. Forest Ecology and Management 167: 57-66.
FERGUSON, S.A., J.E. RUTHFORD, S.J. MCKAY, D. WRIGHT, C. WRIGHT AND R. OTTMAR. 2002. Measuring
moisture dynamics to predict fire severity in longleaf pine forests. International Journal of Wildland Fire 11(4):
267-279.
WRIGHT, C.S. AND R.D. OTTMAR. 2002. Fuel consumption during prescribed fires in big sage ecosystems. Poster
presented at the 2002 Fire Conference: Managing Fire and Fuels in the Remaining Wildlands and Open Spaces
of the Southwestern United States, December 2-5, 2002, San Diego, California.
OTTMAR, R.D., R.E. VIHNANEK AND C.S. WRIGHT. 2002. Stereo photo series for quantifying natural fuels in the
Americas. Poster presented at the 2002 Fire Conference: Managing Fire and Fuels in the Remaining Wildlands
and Open Spaces of the Southwestern United States, December 2-5, 2002, San Diego, California.
OTTMAR, R.D. AND C.S. WRIGHT. 2002. Characterizing fuels in treated areas. In: Baumgartner, D.M., L.R.
Johnson and E.J. DePuit (compilers and editors). Small diameter timber: resource management, manufacturing
and markets symposium proceedings, February 25-27, 2002, Spokane, Washington. Washington State
University Cooperative Extension, Pullman, Washington. pp. 63-73.
WRIGHT, C.S., N.L. TROYER AND R.E. VIHNANEK. 2003. Monitoring fuel consumption and mortality from
prescribed burning in old-growth ponderosa pine stands in eastern Oregon. Pages xx-xx in Proceedings of the
5th Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology and the 2nd International Wildland Fire Ecology and Fire
Management Congress. Orlando, Florida, November 17-20, 2003.
OTTMAR, R.D., R.E. VIHNANEK AND C.S. WRIGHT. 2003. Stereo photo series for quantifying natural fuels in the
Americas. Poster presented at the 5th Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology and the 2nd International
Wildland Fire Ecology and Fire Management Congress. Orlando, Florida, November 17-20, 2003.
WRIGHT, C.S. AND J.K. AGEE. 2004. Fire and vegetation history in the eastern Cascade Mountains, Washington.
Ecological Applications 14(2): 443-459.
OTTMAR, R.D., R.E. VIHNANEK, C.S. WRIGHT AND D.L. OLSON. 2004. Stereo photo series for quantifying natural
fuels. Volume VII: Oregon white oak, California deciduous oak, and mixed-conifer with shrub types in the
western United States. PMS 839. National Wildfire Coordinating Group, Interagency Fire Center, Boise,
Idaho. 75 p.
WRIGHT, C.S. 2004. Thinning, fire behavior and fire effects in a mixed-severity landscape. Poster presented at
Mixed Severity Fire Regimes: Ecology and Management, November 17-19, 2004, Spokane, Washington.
WRIGHT, C.S. 2005. Fuel consumption and flammability thresholds in shrub-dominated ecosystems. 2005 Joint
Fire Science Program Principal Investigator Workshop, November 1-3, 2005, San Diego, California.
WRIGHT, C.S. In prep. Effects of silvicultural treatment and fuel succession on potential fire behavior and fire
effects in small-diameter mixed-conifer forests in northeastern Washington.
OTTMAR, R.D., R.E. VIHNANEK AND C.S. WRIGHT. In prep. Stereo photo series for quantifying natural fuels.
Volume VIII: hardwood, pitch pine, and red spruce/balsam fir types in the northeastern United States. PMS
xxx. National Wildfire Coordinating Group, Interagency Fire Center, Boise, Idaho. 89 p.
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