| A. Enhancing Fire Fighting Capacity
and Preparedness |
i. Resource allocation and decision
support. Support for increased efficiency, effectiveness, and safety of
fire operations and fire management planning activities. This includes developing
tools for improving risk assessment and decision-making processes, data
and models for estimating fire severity, area burned, and smoke emissions
and monitoring and allocating firefighting forces. |
01.PNW.A.3. MAPSS-based
seasonal prediction of national fire risks and impacts (Ron Neilson) |
| 01.PNW.A.2.
Estimating natural and anthropogenic sources of visibility impairment and
regional haze from prescribed and wildland fires (David Sandberg) |
| ii. Predictive models. Develop,
improve and validate models for fire weather and fire behavior prediction,
fire hazard rating, and smoke dispersion in wildfire and prescribed burning.
This includes integrating existing models and predictive systems and modeling
complex meteorological and physical aspects of fire behavior |
01.PNW.A.1. Smoke
modeling framework for real-time prediction of fire hazard and severity,
air pollutant emissions, transport, and dispersion from wildland fires and
prescribed fires ("BlueSky") (David Sandberg/ Sue Ferguson) |
01.PNW.A.4.
Fuel moisture mapping and combustion limits: mechanistic models, remote
sensing, and mapping of fuel moisture and combustion potential for all fuelbeds
in the United (David Sandberg)
Real-time moistures in Florida and Oregon |
| B. Restoring Landscapes and
Rebuilding Communities
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Post-fire treatments. Improve
methods for assessing the effectiveness of rehabilitation and restoration
techniques and determining their impacts on ecosystem health, environmental
quality (soil, water, air), productivity, fish and wildlife habitat, T&E
species, and human community sustainability. |
01.PNW.B.1.
Predicting potential invasion and spread of invasive species following fuel
reduction treatments and post-fire disturbance in the interior Columbia
River Basin (John Lehmkuhl/ Jane Hayes/ Nan Vance/ Ann Camp/ Catherine Parks) |
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Reducing Hazardous Fuels and Fire Risk
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i. Assessment. Develop methods
for assessing the conditions of fuels and values at risk (property, air,
water, soil, and others) at various scales of analysis. This includes remote
sensing and other tools for classifying, monitoring, and predicting fuel
conditions and dynamics and procedures for evaluating the vulnerability
of wildland urban interface structures and community infrastructure. |
01.PNW.C.1. Ground-based
support for fuel and fire hazard mapping to implement treatment strategies
at the national, regional, and local scale (David Sandberg)
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iii. Treatments. Develop and assess strategies for reducing fuels
in overgrown forests and wildland/urban interface areas. This includes
testing the effectiveness of thinning, other silvicultural treatments,
and prescribed fire in altering fire behavior and in integrating fuels
reduction objectives into overall vegetation management strategies. This
also includes determining the impacts of fuels treatments on ecosystem
health, environmental quality (soil, water, air), productivity, wildlife,
T&E, and human community sustainability.
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01.PNW.C.2.
Fuel reduction and forest restoration strategies that also sustain key habitats,
species, and ecological processes in fire-prone ecosystems in the interior
Northwest (John Lehmkuhl/Ann Camp) |