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WK-16: LANDFIRE:
Scientific foundations for multi-scale fire, fuels, and risk assessments
Sunday, August 7, 8 AM - 12
PM, Meeting Room 513e, Level 5, Palais des congrès de
Montréal
Fee:
$10 US Dollars per person – includes mid-morning coffee, refreshments,
and instruction.
Minimum:
20
Maximum: 50
Organizers:
Ayn Schlisky (ashlisky@tnc.org),
Jim Smith
Description:
Fire
managers are faced with reducing hazardous fuel loads, restoring sustainable
fire regimes and ecosystems, and decreasing the threat of catastrophic wildfires
to community values. Often, the comprehensive scientifically-credible data and
models needed to test alternative fuel treatments across multi-ownership
landscapes are lacking. Over the next 5 years, the USDA Forest Service,
Department of the Interior and The Nature Conservancy are implementing the
LANDFIRE project, which will produce consistent and comprehensive spatial data
on vegetation, historic fire regimes, fire regime condition class, and fuels
across the entire
United
States
,
including
Alaska
and
Hawaii
.
While it will fill immediate needs for testing alternative fire management
scenarios, planning fuel treatments, and allocating resources, the data and
models will also have much broader applications in research, biodiversity
conservation, and strategic forest and resource management planning. We will
discuss the objectives and methods of the LANDFIRE project, management
challenges it aims to address, and research opportunities afforded by the data
and models. The goal of the discussion is to raise awareness of the LANDFIRE
project and present opportunities for collaboration and application.
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