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Wildfire Research

There are three global questions behind the wildfire research being conducted in support of the WALTER project:

  • What is the current biogeography of the region (such as soils, vegetation, fuel load factors, elevation, aspect, and many other variables) relative to that of the past twenty years, and what changes have occurred over this time period?

  • What correlations can be found with climatic conditions and events?

  • How do these factors interact to produce particular types and levels of wildfire and of fire hazard?

To help address these questions and contribute to FCS-1, research is being conducted on creating fuel load models appropriate to Southwestern vegetation types and structure, deriving surface moisture from satellite imagery, and assessing the relationships between previous fire occurrence and the probability of fire in similar topographic and ecological conditions. The wildfire research is being conducted in concert with both the climate and fire history components.

 

Ecology Recreation Data 
Fire Effects Information System (FEIS)
FEIS provides up-to-date information about fire effects on plants and animals. It was developed at the USDA Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station's Fire Sciences Laboratory in Missoula, Montana.
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Fire History Tools Fire Management Policy 
Returning Fire to the Mountains: Can We Successfully Restore the Ecological Role of Pre-Euroamerican Fire Regimes to the Sierra Nevada?
By Anthony C. Caprio and David M. Graber (Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks). Pdf document examining the resultant conditions of Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Park’s burn program relative to the knowledge about past fire regimes in this ecosystem and using fire return interval departure (FRID) to provide management direction. (another copy: USDA Forest Service Proceedings RMRS-P-15-VOL-5. 2000)
Fire History Tools Fire Management Policy 
The Use of Geographic Information for Fire Management Planning in Yosemite National Park
By Jan W. van Wagtendonk (of U.S. Geological Survey Western Ecological Research Center, Yosemite Field Station), Kent A. van Wagtendonk, Joseph B. Meyer, and Kara J. Paintner (of Yosemite National Park). Pdf document, Applied Geography 19(1):19-39. 2002 using GIS and fire return interval departure (FRID) analysis in the park's new management plan.
Fire History Tools Fire Management Policy 
Fire Management and GIS: A Framework for Identifying and Prioritizing Fire Planning Needs
By Tony Caprio, Corky Conover, Mary Beth Keifer, and Pat Lineback (Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks). A pdf document from the 1997 ESRI User Converence.
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Fire History Tools Fire Management Policy 
Make a Map
A map server from the Southern Sierra Geographic Information Cooperative that uses fire return interval departure (FRID) of drainages the southern Sierra Nevada mountains of California.
Fire History Tools Science Fire Prevention 
USGS Satellite Data Applications for Fire Science
From EROS Data Center. Working to develop mapping techniques for vegetation fuels assessment, providing information on the potential for fires to ignite and spread, and burn severity assessment. Go…
Fire History Society Fire Prevention Science 
LandFire
Charged with the task of developing a consistent and accurate methodology capable of producing geospatial data of vegetation conditions, fire fuels, risks, and ecosystem status at the national, regional, and local scales for implementation of the National Fire Plan. Go…
 
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