Click on any of the following titles to learn how LANDFIRE is being used every day to advance strategic planning, provide valuable historical context and support appropriate land management for conservation.

• Enhanced CAP for the Bodie Hills -- Bureau of Land Management forms cooperativie to develop a Conservation Action Plan for approximately 200,000 acres in California's Bodie Hills and the northern Mono Basin.
• Enhanced conservation action planning: Assessing landscape condition and predicting predicting benefits of conservation strategies -- Remote sensing, predictive ecological models, and cost-benefit assessments used to develop a landscape-scale conservation action plan. Article published in Journal of Conservation Planning Vol 6 (2010) 36 — 60.
• Estimating Historic Fire Conditions: Looking Back to See Ahead -- LANDFIRE data and tools help determine historic fire levels in the face of large scale land conversion, invasive species, fire suppression policies, logging, and more.
• LANDFIRE Products Inform Colorado Statewide Forest Resource Assessment -- First geospatial assessment completed by the Colorado State Forest Service uses LANDFIRE products as foundation for the analysis. Click here to Download a summary of the report. See the Colorado State Forest Service website for background information and appendices.
• Performing Fire Needs Assessments -- Michigan Chapter planners worked with partners at the Michigan Natural Features Inventory in a research and analysis project designed to support the prioritization of restoration efforts in selected conservation areas.
• Genies in the Bottle -- Conservation action planning using workshops and learning networks
• Vegetation models in Northern Arizona -- vegetation models used to evaluate the ecological sustainability of ponderosa pine forests
• Hiawatha National Forest and USDA Forest Service Climate Change -- addressing climate change and prioritizing ecological restoration needs
• Signal Peak, New Mexico landscape assessment -- stakeholders discuss landscape scale assessment in the Gila National Forest
• Forest Restoration in Oregon -- suppression of wildland fire, along with widespread livestock grazing and logging, have altered the characteristics of most ecosystems
• Idaho, Oregon and Nevada Sage Brush Cooperative -- LANDFIRE project provides the only dataset of vegetation conditions for a project area in the sage-steppe habitat
• Upper Deschutes Pacific Northwest - collection and analysis of local data layers to develop Fire Regime Condition Class on the Deschutes landscape
• Upper Mimbres Watershed Landscape Assessment --- southwest New Mexico works with partners to conduct assessment as basis for developing a fire management plan.
• Nevada identifies conservation strategies -- scientists need consistent, statewide information on landscape-scale ecological health
• Ranking conservation areas in Michigan -- assessment designed to help prioritize fire management strategies to guide the development of a Fire Needs Assessment
• Effects of Climate Change on the Distribution of Pika (Ochotona princeps) in the Western United States -- two vegetation type layers, GAP and LANDFIRE, were analyzed to match pika occurrences with vegetation types. Poster.
• Using LANDFIRE data and products for Conservation Action Planning -- datasets are useful to the conservation planner working at large-landscape scales.
• Michigan: Stone-Moss Unit Planning Partnership -- US Forest Service and TNC apply LANDFIRE data and tools for mid-scale planning in the Hiawatha National Forest.
• Raco Plains Mid-Scale Assessment -- project provides a landscape-scale perspective for the Raco Plains, explores the potential utility of LANDFIRE data, and suggests opportunities to the Hiawatha National Forest
• China -- international application of LANDFIRE data
• Mongolia -- international application of LANDFIRE data
• PowerPoint overview of LANDFIRE applications -- an outline of the unique characteristics of LANDFIRE products
• TNC-LANDFIRE general applications

Thumbnail reports and projects in progress

• Six short stories about ecological departure, regional fire risk assessments, carbon rapid assessment, the Northern Sierra Nevada Climate Change Project, the Hiawatha National Forest cooperative with the USDA Forest Service, and California's carbon and air quality study.
• Abstract: Setting Biodiversity Management Priorities: A geospatial approach to identifying areas for maintenance and restoration of Hawaii's ecosystems.

  Authors: Stephanie Tom (1) Presenting; Ron Cannarella (2); Sam Gon (1); Jim Jacobi (3); Theresa Menard (1); Jon Price (4); Jason Sumiye (1); Emma Yuen

More application stories (also available on main LANDFIRE site)

• Use of LANDFIRE Data in Wildland Fire Risk Assessment: Ashley Lakes Fire in the Mission Mountain Tribal Wilderness, MT
• Initial Testing of LANDFIRE Prototype Data: Applications to Local Fuel Planning in Southwest Utah -- scientists selected two of the western U.S. mapping zones through which to test and refine data development methods.

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This page was last updated 17 August 2010.