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Fire Regime Groups
March 2009 |
LANDFIRE is an innovative wildland fire, ecosystem, and fuel assessment-mapping project designed to generate consistent, comprehensive, landscape-scale maps of vegetation, fire, and fuel characteristics for the United States using a consistent process nation-wide. It responds to agency and partner needs for data to support biodiversity conservation, fire management planning, prioritization of fuel treatments, collaboration, community and firefighter protection and effective resource allocation. LANDFIRE is a collaborative $40 million 5-year partnership between the USDA Forest Service, Department of the Interior and The Nature Conservancy. For more information, please visit the official LANDFIRE web site.
LANDFIRE spatial products and vegetation models can
- Provide consistent landscape-scale, cross-boundary geospatial products to support fire and land management planning activities.
- Help identify and assess conservation targets, and evaluate individual or multiple threats to conservation targets.
- Help explore the potential effectiveness and costs of various management options.
- Help strengthen partner relationships through collaborative learning.
- Help stewards and planners learn about past, present and potential future disturbance regimes and effects.
- Supplement or assist local planning and management and monitoring activities requiring consistent vegetation data.
- Assist with strategic and tactical planning for fire operations where other necessary data is unavailable.
- Help federal and state agencies and private organizations collaborate with regard to fire and other natural resource management.
- Help agencies and partner organizations perform regional modeling of potential fire behavior and fire effects to strategically plan projects for hazardous fuel reduction and restoration of ecosystem integrity on fire-adapted landscapes.
- Assist with Community Wildfire Protection Plans, effective resource allocation, and collaboration between agencies and the public.
View a comprehensive list of LANDFIRE products. See how LANDFIRE works in the Conservation Action Planning Process. Look for additional documents on the WiserEarth Fire Learning Network/Landfire site. (You will need to establish membership to WiserEarth in order to access those resources.)
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Page last updated 22 April 2009.
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