LandFire is the crucial "silent partner" with the US Forest Service in making fire simulations possible. "We're highly dependent on LANDFIRE data for all the simulations we do, and the quality of the LandFire data is improving with each generation," explains Chuck McHugh, a USFS Fire Spatial Analyst who does behavior modeling for wildland fire at the Rocky Mountain Research Station, Fire Sciences Laboratory in Missoula, MT. "It provides seamless, consistent data layers, including fuel types, fire regime classification, and other geospatial layers of data critical to using geospatial decision support systems, such as FarSite, FlamMap, and FSPro." See http://www.landfire.gov and other pages on this LANDFIRE site (Conservation Gateway) for more information.