# Presentation: 910340

## Wildland Fire Decision Support SystemWFDSSData Manager Role

**Wildland Fire Decision Support System****WFDSS****Data Manager Role**

**Wildland Fire Management RD&A**
**National Interagency Fire Center**
**Boise, Idaho**

**Notes:**
Presentation will discuss the role of the DATA MANAGER within the WFDSS application.

## OBJECTIVES:

**Define Data Manger Role, Strategic Objectives,  Management Requirements, Fire Management Units**
**Create Fire Management Unit (FMU) Names and Codes**
**Create Strategic Objectives from Land and Fire Management Plans**
**Create Management Requirements from Land and Fire Management Plans**

## Data Manager:

**Enters and maintains the overarching strategic objectives / management requirements and fire management unit associations for individual agency units** **per land and fire management plans.**
**Data Manager role would probably be assigned to the fire planner or the individual who contributed objectives to the fire management or land management plans.**

**Notes:**
Enters and maintains the overarching strategic objectives / management requirements and fire management unit associations for individual agency units per land and fire management plans.

Data Manager role would probably be assigned to the fire planner or the individual who contributed objectives to the fire management or land management plans.

Strategic Objectives and Management Requirements entered by the Data Manger are different than the Incident Specific Objectives and Incident Requirements.  The Incident Specific Objectives and Incident Requirements are developed by the Author Role during decision documentation.  Incident Specific Objectives and Requirements will contribute to the development of Incident Daily Action Plans.

## Strategic Objective:

**These are broad statements, specified in land and resource management and fire management plans that identify changes in water, soil, air, or vegetation from the present to proposed conditions but can also describe an existing resource condition that should be maintained.  **
**Objectives deal with large areas over long time periods and project intended outcomes of management activities that contribute to the maintenance or achievement of desired conditions. **

**Notes:**
These are broad statements, specified in land and resource management and fire management plans that identify changes in water, soil, air, or vegetation from the present to proposed conditions but can also describe an existing resource condition that should be maintained.  

Objectives deal with large areas over long time periods and project intended outcomes of management activities that contribute to the maintenance or achievement of desired conditions. 

## Management Requirement:

- Management Requirements are derived from land and resource management plan and fire management plan standards and guidelines information.
- They represent the recommended technical and scientific specifications for management activities and/or potential actions to help achieve objectives across broad areas in general terms.
- They provide the foundation, framework, and limitations/challenges for potential management activities.
- Management Requirements are not commitments or final implementation decisions.
**Example statement:**
*Management of wildland and prescribed fire should avoid adding smoke into the Grand Canyon viewshed. *

**Notes:**
Management Requirements are derived from land and resource management plan and fire management plan standards and guidelines information.  
They represent the recommended technical and scientific specifications for management activities and/or potential actions to help achieve objectives across broad areas in general terms. They provide the foundation, framework, and limitations/challenges for potential management activities.  Management Requirements are not commitments or final implementation decisions.   
Example statements:
Management of wildland and prescribed fire should avoid adding smoke into the Grand Canyon viewshed. 
Mechanical firelines should not be constructed on erosive X, Y, and Z type soils nor on slopes greater than 30 percent.   
In the Rocky Gorge management area, when perimeter control is the response to wildfire, natural barriers should be used as firelines. 
Fire camps staging areas, helibases should be located on lands that: 
(a)  Are not forested;
(b)  Are adjacent to a well-maintained forest road (36 CFR 212.1);
(c)  Have less than 5 percent slope; and 
(d)  Are 100 feet or more from all bodies of water, wetlands, and trails.  
Responses to wildland fire and fuels management activities should avoid loss due to fire in the Old Heritage Area.
To avoid unacceptable risks of erosion, mechanical firelines should not occur on slopes greater than 30 percent or on the highly erosive X, Y and Z soil types. 

## Fire Management Unit:

- NWCG Definition: *A land management area definable by objectives, management constraints, topographic features, access, values to be protected, political boundaries, fuel types, major fire regime groups, etc. that set it apart from the characteristics of an adjacent FMU. *
*The FMU may have dominant management objectives and pre-selected strategies assigned to accomplish these objectives.*

## Create FMU Codes

## Data Management: FMU Codes

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**Notes:**
We will now discuss entering Fire Management Unit information.

(1) We will now navigate to the DATA MANAGEMENT tab to Create FMU Codes.
(2) Click on the FMU Codes tab to Create Fire Management Unit descriptions and codes.

FMU Codes will be used in the future to link to spatial data for fire management units. 

## Data Management: FMU Codes

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We will select the Geographic Area.
We will next select the Agency.
Finally we will select the Unit.
When the screen reloads, we will click on the arrow button to collapse the Unit Selection tool.
(5)We should now see a box to ADD FMU Codes for the unit we selected.  
(6)If we already have FMU Codes entered, below the ADD box we will see a list of FMUs previously created.

## Data Management: FMU Codes

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Enter FMU Code.  This code will be utilized in the future to link your Strategic Objectives and Management Requirements to spatial FMU Data.  The FMU Code needs to match the code used in the spatial data layer of FMU polygons.
Enter FMU Description/Name.
Choose to activate FMU for use now by clicking ACTIVATE NOW.
Click add to create FMU Code.

## Data Management: FMU Codes

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**Notes:**
A message at the top of the screen will appear to show you that your FMU was successfully created.  

## Create Strategic Objectives

## Create Strategic Objectives:

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**Notes:**
We will select the OBJECTIVE tab to create strategic objectives and management requirements.
We will next select the Geographic Area.
We will select the Agency.
Finally we select the Unit.
When the screen reloads, we will click on the arrow button to collapse the Unit Selection tool.
(6)If we already have Strategic Objectives and Management Requirements entered, we will see a list of all previously created Strategic Objectives and Management Requirements.

## Create Strategic Objectives:

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(1) To create a new Strategic Objectives, click on the CREATE OBJECTIVE hyper text.

## Create Strategic Objectives:

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Choose a FMU Code from a drop down list of FMUs.  This list was created from the first part of this lesson where we created FMU Codes.
Enter your Strategic Objective from Land and Fire Management Plans.
When finished, you can choose to activate the objective now by clicking the ACTIVE NOW box.  You can then click SAVE to save your objective and return to the objective list.  If you choose NOT to save your objective, simply click RETURN to return to the objective list.

The Text Editor box for free text will have hover text associated with the icons to help the users better utilize the Text Editor.

## Create Strategic Objectives:

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Data Managers can click the radio button next to a Strategic objective or Management Requirement to select.
Once there is a selection, Data Mangers will be able to ACTIVATE or DEACTIVATE and objective or requirement.  If an objective or requirement was never ACTIVATED, it can be EDITED or DELETED.  Once an objective or requirement is ACTIVATED, it can only be DEACTIVATED.  This statement means that once an objective is activated, it can never be edited or deleted. This action leaves a track log in the system of all objectives and requirements that were active in the decision system.  It prohibits someone other than the Data Manager from changing objectives/requirements that have been entered per Land and Fire Management Plans.

## Create Management Requirements

## Create Management Requirement:

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(1) Click the CREATE MANAGEMENT REQUIREMENT hyper text to create management requirements.

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Choose a FMU Code from a drop down list of FMUs.  This list was created from the first part of this lesson where we created FMU Codes.
Enter your Management Requirement from Land and Fire Management Plans.
When finished, you can choose to activate the objective now by clicking the ACTIVE NOW box.  You can then click SAVE to save your management requirement.  If you choose NOT to save your objective, simply click RETURN to return to the objective list.

## Strategic Objective / Management Requirement:

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Strategic Objectives and Management Requirements can be entered in any format that the Unit prefers.  This slide is one example of data entry.

## Strategic Objective / Management Requirement:

**Notes:**
Strategic Objectives and Management Requirements can be entered in any format that the Unit prefers.  This is an example of data entry.

## SUMMARY

## SUMMARY:

**Notes:**
The Data Manager role utilizes the DATA MANAGEMENT tab to create FMU Codes.  They also create Strategic Objectives and Management Requirements as they relate to the FMUs per the direction in the units Land and Fire Management Plans.

## SUMMARY:

**Defined Data Manger Role, Strategic Objectives, Management Requirements, and Fire Management Units**
**Created Fire Management Unit (FMU) Names and Codes**
**Created Strategic Objectives from Land and Fire Management Plans**
**Created Management Requirements from Land and Fire Management Plans**