General

• Partners in Fire Education. This collaborative project recently issued a summary of comprehensive U.S. public opinion research on fire.
  (Posted 23 June 2008)
  

LANDFIRE

• Suite of Tools Available for LANDFIRE Data Users

April, 2008 -- LANDFIRE spatial products for Map Zones 37, 39, 40, 41, 44, 45, 50, 51 and 98 are now available for download.  These zones cover much of Louisiana, east Texas, Arkansas, southern and central Missouri, eastern Dakotas, Minnesota, Michigan, and Wisconsin.  These deliveries are in addition to those portions of the country that were previously delivered (western half of the US, and the far southeast). The LANDFIRE product suite contains more than twenty 30-meter ESRI raster layers that can inform regional or large landscape conservation planning.

Vegetation models for Map Zones 37, 55, 56, 58 and 98 are available from www.landfire.gov or through the ArcMap LANDFIRE Data Access Tool (see www.niftt.gov). These map zones cover much of Louisiana and East Texas, peninsular Florida and south Georgia, and the southern Atlantic Coastal Plain. The models contain detailed descriptions and quantitative state-and-transition VDDT models of major pre-European settlement NatureServe Ecological systems. Coupled with the LANDFIRE Biophysical Setting spatial layer, these two products provide opportunities to explore, develop and compare desired future conditions for landscapes.

A new page on www.landfire.gov is devoted to a suite of tools developed to assist users of LANDFIRE data. Links to the information are found under Data Products (http://www.landfire.gov/products_tools.php), and on the Home Page. Located there is are the download link and brief description of the capabilities of the LANDFIRE Data Access Tool, FRCC Mapping Tool, LANDFIRE Tutorial, Multi-Resource Integration Tool, Fire Behavior Analysis Tool, Area Change Tool and Vegetation Dynamics Development Tool.

Further information:  Jim_Smith@tnc.org

(Updated 23 June 2008)

• TNC-LANDFIRE News Archives

To read past release information and general updates of the LANDFIRE program at TNC, please refer to the newsletter page.

U.S. Fire Learning Network

• Mt. Grant FRCC Project Results Published. Louis Provencher was the lead author on a paper about the results of this U.S. FLN-funded project that used mid-scale fire regime condition class (FRCC) to help set fuels reduction and restoration priorities. The paper appeared in the International Journal of Wildland Fire.
  (posted 24 June 2008)
  
  
• New U.S. FLN Field Guide. The 2008 edition of the U.S. Fire Learning Network Field Guide is now available. The Guide contains a brief description of the U.S. Fire Learning Network with a national map, detailed information with regional maps for each regional Network, and even more information on the important fire activities being accomplished on the ground for many landscapes.
  (posted 24 June 2008)