Fuels, Fire Ecology & Smoke Management
The Pacific Southwest Region Fuels Management, Fire Ecology and Smoke Management Programs are dedicated to protecting, restoring and enhancing the ecosystems of the Pacific Southwest through the use of fire and mechanical treatments.
Summary of Fuel Treatment Effectiveness in the Herger-Feinstein Quincy Library Group (HFQLG) Pilot Project Area » This report documents the effectiveness of fuel treatments that interacted with wildfires within the HFQLG Forest Recovery Act Pilot Project area. Other resource reports within the HFQLG Pilot Project area
Fuel Treatment Effects on Fire Behavior, Suppression Effectiveness, and Structure Ignition » Grass Valley Fire, San Bernardino National Forest.
Home Destruction Examination » Grass Valley Fire, Lake Arrowhead, CA
Interagency Prescribed Fire Planning and Implementation Procedures Reference Guide » This Guide supports the Interagency Strategy for the Implementation of Federal Wildland Fire Management Policy. It provides unified direction and guidance for prescribed fire planning and implementation.
Fuel Treatment Effectiveness and Effects Monitoring » for the Pacific Southwest Region, 1999 - 2006, final version of the Manager's Summary
Fuel Treatment Effectiveness Assessments »
Success Stories » You may access project and success information for the Healthy Forests and National Fire Plan initiatives.
Fire Program Analysis System (FPA) » The purpose of the FPA is to provide managers with a common interagency process for fire management planning and budgeting to evaluate the effectiveness of alternative fire management strategies through time, to meet land management goals and objectives. FPA will reflect fire objectives and performance measures for the full scope of fire management activities.
Weather
- Northern California Weather Service
- Southern California Weather Service
- Northern California Fire Intelligence/Predictive Services
- Southern California Fire Intelligence/Predictive Services
Implementation Guides
- 1995 Federal Fire Policy
- Cohesive Strategy
- 10 Year Comprehensive Strategy
- Communities at RiskFederal Register listing of Communities at Risk
- FRAP(CA Fire and Resource Assessment Program)
- Fire Regime and Condition Class
- Supplemental Agreement for Cooperative Use of Prescribed Fire
- Project Specific Agreement and Operating Plan Template
Pacific Southwest Regional
Forest Fuels Websites
NEPA/Planning
Fire Effects
- Association for Fire Ecology
- FOFEM (First Order Fire Effects Model)
- FEIS(Fire Effects Information System)
- Prescribed Fire Monitoring
Smoke Management/Air Quality
Research
- Fire Behavior and Effects Relating to Suppression, Fuel Treatments, and Protected Areas on the Antelope Complex Wheeler Fire
- An Assessment of Fuel Treatment Effects on Fire Behavior, Suppression Effectiveness, and Structure Ignition on the Angora Fire
- Prescribed Fire and Research
- Center for Urban Forest Research
- Joint Fire Science Project
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