Accomplishments – FY07
FMI work is divided into four categories: Development, Support, Training, and Maintenance.These categories are listed below with the accomplishments for fiscal year 2007 listed for each.
Development – Applications, products, and methods that addresses the latest fire management issues:
- Publication: Fire ecology & management of the major ecosystems of southern Utah (In press)
- Publication: Wildland fire & ecosystems: fire and nonnative invasive plants (In press)
- Publication: Guidance on spatial wildland fire analysis: models, tools and techniques
- Publication: Nomographs for estimating surface fire behavior characteristics.
- Publication: Restoring the Pacific Northwest: the art and science of ecological restoration in Cascadia
- Developed a national map of whitebark pine blister rust infestations to support regional restoration strategies
- Developed a national map of Wildland Fire Potential (Version 2) to support strategic planning at the USFS Washington Office
Support – Integrating state-of-the-art science and technology into tools and products for management:
- Modeled consumption and emissions to support MT/ID Prescribed Burn Reporting System
- Provided a long-term fire behavior assessment to support fire & fuels planning on Sawtooth NF
- Modeled fire behavior to predict fuels treatment effectiveness in the Bozeman MT Municipal Watershed
- Provided an assessment of the risk of fire moving out of the Lee Metcalf Wilderness in MT
- Assisted Helena NF with development and analysis of spatial layers for FARSITE & FLAMMAP fire behavior models
- Enhanced spatial data to support both the USFS FY08 and DOI FY07 Fuels Allocation Process
- Provided spatial data and technical expertise to USFS State & Private Forestry Redesign Allocation Tool
- Evaluated fuel treatment effectiveness in the southeast based on fire behavior modeling – DeSoto National Forest Case Study
- Evaluated similarities in fire behavior and ecology of National Forests to the Tahoe Basin Management Unit
- Provided computational fluid dynamics wind modeling (WindWizard) on three national forests in USFS Region 4
- Provided fire behavior and GIS support to wildland fire Northern Rockies and Southern Area Commands (14 total weeks)
Training – In using the latest technology and information for fire behavior, fuels, and ecology:
- Information Sharing/Training: Presentations/Posters: FEIS > 20, ATeam > 30; Specialized Tech Transfer Activities > 20 total
- Taught FIREMON grassland biomass sampling methodologies to the Coeur D’Alene Tribe in ID & six Great Plains tribes
- Taught in IQCS classes: RX310, RX410, S492, and S493; and SPOT’s workshops in Bend and Portland OR
- Trained 18 people on using the FireWorks educational trunk
Maintenance – Maintaining applications and technologies:
- Interactive internet map was added to the Wildland Fire Assessment System (WFAS) website
- Updated FIREMON with additional analysis tools, sampling fields, and user options
- Added 50 species and fire effect write-ups to the Fire Effects Information System (FEIS)
- Provided technical/helpdesk support: FEIS over 60 calls; Application Team over 100 calls
- Rewriting and adding 150 species reviews into FEIS
- Updating NEXUS, a crown fire potential model, with additional features
- Updating the Strategic Placement of Treatments (SPOTS) and Stewardship & Fireshed Assessment (SFA) programs website
