# Presentation: 724913

## FOR-438 

***Fuel Assessment Techniques Using LANDFIRE Data***

## 	 Course Objectives		

| The workshop will provide a framework for conducting integrated fire, fuels and resource planning.Specifically, students will be instructed on how to apply: |
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**Fuel and fire behavior assessment tools (FlamMap, Fire Behavior Assessment Tool) using LANDFIRE data.**
**The Fire Regime Condition Class Mapping Tool for assessment of ecological conditions using LANDFIRE data.**
**The Multi-scale Resource Integration Tool for conducting integrated assessments and prioritization using LANDFIRE data.**
**The Area Change Tool for conducting strategic assessment of treatment options, landscape change and updating data.**** **

**FBAT **
**(Fire Behavior **
**Assessment Tool)**** **
**FlamMap**

**FRCC **
**Mapping **
**Tool**

**MRIT **
**(Multi-scale **
**Resource**
**Integration **
**Tool)**

**ACT **
**(Area Change Tool)**

**FOR-438 Tool & Data Flow Summary**

**Notes:**
Summary of FOR-438 Tools & Data Flow Summary.

## Fuel and fire behavior assessment tools (FlamMap, Fire Behavior Assessment Tool) using LANDFIRE data.

- Understand the background of the National Interagency Fuels Group (_[www.nifc.gov](http://www.nifc.gov/)_/nifcg)
- Formation of the National Interagency Fuels Technology Team

## The Fire Regime Condition Class Mapping Tool for assessment of ecological conditions using LANDFIRE data

- History of course development
- Relationship to the LANDFIRE project.

## The Multi-scale Resource Integration Tool for conducting integrated assessments and prioritization using LANDFIRE data.

- In return for the Agencies and Instructors putting on the course, participants are expected to:
- Have completed the course prerequisites and pre-work
- Participate in learning from the lectures and using the tools to complete the exercises
- Provide feedback on opportunities and recommendations to improve the course and tools, and implement the technology

## The Area Change Tool for conducting strategic assessment of treatment options, landscape change and updating data

- We do not expect you to be able to implement all tools in your planning & incident management without help
- Help desk (Kathy Schon, Morgan Pence)
- Tools functions (passed on to tools team)
- Dale Hamilton, Lee Hutter, Deb Termenstein, ...
- Applications (passed on to Demo Team)
- Jeff Jones, Marc Levesque, Doug Havlina, Wendel Hann, Steve Barrett, Ted Tower, Tom Demeo, ......................
- We are looking for partners to help with tech transfer

## FBAT 

**FBAT **
**(Fire Behavior **
**Assessment Tool)**** **
**FlamMap**

**FRCC **
**Mapping **
**Tool**

**MRIT **
**(Multi-scale **
**Resource**
**Integration **
**Tool)**

**ACT **
**(Area Change Tool)**

**FOR-438 Tool & Data Flow Summary**

**Notes:**
Summary of FOR-438 Tools & Data Flow Summary.

## Course Grading and Certification

- Receiving the 438 Course Certificate indicates you:
- have the knowledge, skills, and abilities to implement the tools and assessment process
- And/or know where to go to get help
- Course is graded
- 50% on lecture/exercise participation
- 50% on final exercise – pass (> 50%)/fail

**Notes:**
Good place to use; The tools, LANDFIRE data, and assessment process is new and cutting edge.  Expect some glitches and be proactive.  “So give me a W (W); give me an H (H); give me an A (A); what does it spell? WHA.  No whining.

## Common Questions

- Why conduct assessment to develop program of work by prioritizing projects?
- Why standardize an assessment process, tools, and local/national data integration?
- Why LANDFIRE?

## Condition & History

- Increasing inability to deal with wildfire
- Steady increase in wildland urban interface & demands on public lands
- Unsustainable ecological conditions generating conflicts with value production
- Legacy of some past management systems
- Invasive species
- Native species decline
- Air, soil, and water degradation
- Approx 1250 million acres of federal lands
- 3 % rate of change; 1% rate of treatment

## What does “DC” Expect

- Government Accountability Office
- Approx 25 reports
- Pressure for strategic planning
- Pressure for consistent data & science-base
- Office of Management & Budget
- State & Private
- Agencies

## LANDFIRE

- Multi-partner wildland fire, ecosystem, and wildland fuel mapping project
- Consistent, comprehensive maps and data describing vegetation, fire, and fuel characteristics across the United States
- Supports landscape fire management planning, prioritization of fuel treatments, collaboration, community and firefighter protection, and resource allocation

## Tools & Assessment Process

- Spatial and temporal integration of complex fire, fuels & resource elements
- Consistent assessment measures
- Fire Regime Condition Class (FRCC)
- Fuels fire behavior hazard & opportunity
- Coordination between agencies, state, & private of fuels, fire, & resource information
- “Keep it Simple (KISS)” – its complex enough because of multiple values & size

## What do we want from you?

- LANDFIRE
- Learn it, test it, provide feedback
- Treat it as a framework for data integration
- Use it for subregional & region/state assessment & coordination/collaboration
- Integrate with local data for project & incidents
- Tools & Assessment Process
- Learn them, test them, provide feedback
- Add to them; be creative
- KIS – key to integration & public awareness

## National Interagency Fuels Technology Team“a trail to integration”

- National Interagency Fuels Technology Team“a trail to integration”