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Fire & Fuel Management Strategies
| Research | Brief Description |
|---|---|
| ArcBurn |
Linking Field-based and Experimental Methods to Quantify, Predict, and Manage Fire Effects on Cultural Resources |
| Assessment of community wildfire exposure in the western US |
The first comprehensive assessment of where public wildlands in the Western US potentially contribute wildfire exposure to communities. |
| Bark beetle outbreaks in lodgepole pine |
Lodgepole pine forest host characteristics influence mountain pine beetle outbreak severity in the Northern Rocky Mountains. |
| California tree mortality |
Changes in fuel loading and conifer mortality risk factors due to bark beetles and drought in California. |
| Camp Swift research burns |
The overall goal for the project is to evaluate the Wildland-Urban Interface Fire Dynamics Simulator (WFDS), a physics-based fire behavior model, using data collected in a full-scale prescribed fire setting. |
| Climate Change on Global Fire Danger |
Wildfires occur at the intersection of dry weather, available fuel, and ignition sources. Weather is the most variable and largest driver of regional burned area. |
| Coarse-Scale Spatial Data |
Coarse-Scale Spatial Data for Wildland Fire and Fuel Management: A coarse scale assessment and mapping effort was initiated to support national-level fire planning and risk assessments. |
| Douglas-fir and Fire | Predicting Post-fire Douglas-fir Beetle Attacks and Tree Mortality in the Northern Rocky Mountains |
| Duff Mounds | Prescribed Burning: Can We Do It Without Killing the Trees We Are Trying to Save? |
| Evaluating Fuel Treatment Effectiveness |
Using STANDFIRE to test whether fuel treatments are effective in changing fire behavior |
| FARSITE |
**FARSITE4 will no longer be supported or available for download. FlamMap6 now includes FARSITE.** See FlamMap for more information. |
| FFI: Ecological Monitoring |
FFI is an ecological monitoring software application designed to assist managers with collection, storage and analysis of ecological information. |
| Fire Management, Zambia |
Fire Management and Fire Use Assessment of Eastern Province, Zambia |
| Fire Severity Classification | Classifying Fire Severity Based on simulated surface fuel combustion and heat transfer |
| Fire Weather Alert System |
The Fire Weather Alert System (FWAS) has been designed to warn on-the-ground firefighters of dangerous weather conditions in their area. |
| Fire: A Vaccine for the Forest? |
The impact of fire on conifer defenses . |
| FireFamilyPlus |
FireFamilyPlus supports the spectrum of fire weather/fire danger/fire climate/fire occurrence analysis tools required by fire managers to successfully use the National Fire Danger Rating System (NFDRS). |
| Firefighter Safety |
Perhaps one of the most critical decisions made by firefighters during daily fire management operations is the identification of suitable safety zones. |
| FIRESEV - Modeling and mapping fire severity |
A fire severity mapping system for real time fire management application and long-term planning. |
| Foliar Moisture Content |
Analyzing the ‘spring dip’ in foliar moisture content and its relationship to crown dire activity in the Great Lakes |
| FPARDY - Fuel PARticle DYnamics |
Exploring surface and canopy fuel characteristics at the particle, layer, and fuelbed levels across major forest ecosystem types of the US northern Rocky Mountains. |
| FSim-Wildfire Risk Simulation Software |
FSim is the most widely used program in the US for wildfire risk analysis, relied upon by Federal and State agencies, and Private Industry (reinsurance). |
| FuelCalc - Canopy fuel calculator and model |
FuelCalc is a desktop software application for determining changes in surface and crown fuel loading after thinning, pruning, piling and/or prescribed fire. |
| FUELDIST - Fuel accumulation after disturbance |
Monitoring surface and canopy fuel conditions after stand-replacing disturbance events in northern Rocky Mountain ecosystems. |
| LANDFIRE Overview |
An overview of LANDFIRE organization, processes, and products |
| LANDFIRE Prototype - Mapping fuels |
Development of the tools, protocols, methods, and data products for the National LANDFIRE Project. |
| LANDFIRE ReMap |
LANDFIRE After Action Review and Scoping In Preparation for Comprehensive Remapping |
| Lodgepole Pine Restoration |
Using silvicultural treatments and prescribing burning to restore multi-aged lodgepole pine forests |
| Long term wildfire management in areas near Chernobyl |
This project examined natural and human drivers of wildfires in areas contaminated by the Chernobyl explosion. |
| Long-term restoration synergies |
This research uses agent-based landscape forest modelling to explore synergies between wildfire and forest and fuels management to create fire resilient forests, conserve carbon, and reduce future high severity fire. |
| LSim forest landscape management model |
We integrated the Forest Vegetation Simulator with the FSim wildfire simulation model to conduct research on long term management and wildfire feedbacks. |
| Lubrecht Fire-Fire Surrogate Study |
Fuel treatment impacts in ponderosa pine - Douglas-fir forests in the Northern Rockies. |
| Mapping and modeling fuels and fire at the Sycan Marsh, Oregon |
Mapping, modeling, and connecting fuels and fire behavior effects at the Sycan Marsh, Oregonp An ongoing research project focused on multi-scale integration of fire and fuel datasets collected before, during, and following management prescribed fires. |
| Mountain Pine Beetle |
Quantifying the Potential Effects of Mountain Pine Beetle on Wildland Fire Behavior |
| National Scenario Planning Platform |
This project concerns development and application of scenario science and planning tools to support shared stewardship and prioritization of forest service land management investments. |
| National Wildfire Risk Assessment |
A wildfire risk assessment for the conterminous United States |
| Old Tree Responses |
Long-term growth responses to stand density reduction treatments in mature pine forests of California |
| Ponderosa Pine Restoration at Lick Creek |
Lick Creek Demonstration-Research Forest: 25-year fire and cutting effects on vegetation and fuels |
| Post-fire Tree Mortality |
Delayed Tree Mortality Following Fire in Western Conifers |
| Predicting tree growth and beetle susceptibility after fire |
We are creating tools to inform post-fire decisions that predict post-fire growth rates and mortality levels due to fire alone or fire+beetle for ponderosa pine (PP) and Douglas-fir (DF). The models in the tools will account for tree size, fire injury, site productivity, changes in competition, and beetle pressure. The project will also validate and update current FVS post-fire growth predictions. |
| Reintroducing Fire |
Mitigating old tree mortality in long-unburned, fire-dependent forests |
| Scenario Investment Planning Platform |
This research concerns the development and application of spatial scenario planning models to analyze a wide range of forest and restoration management issues on fire frequent landscapes. |
| Soil Heating and Fire Effects |
Soil heating and fire effects resulting from in situ oil spill burning. |
| TreeMap: A tree-level model of the forests of the United States |
Machine learning matched forest plot data with biophysical characteristics of the landscape to produce a seamless tree-level forest map. |
| U.S. Wildfires |
A Spatial Database of U.S. Wildfires |
| WBP - Release after daylighting |
Whitebark pine populations are declining across their entire range due to the combined effects of mountain pine beetle, whitebark pine blister rust, and changing fire regimes. |
| Wildfire effects in grand fir-hemlock forests |
Grand fir and western hemlock mortality and regeneration dynamics after wildfire and salvage. |
| WildfireSAFE |
WildfireSAFE is an integrated, web-based resource to support fire management decisions. |
| WPGA - Whitebark Pine Growth Analysis |
Growth response of whitebark pine trees to thinning and prescribed burn treatments. |