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A rich body of articles, reports, manuals, websites, and usage guides is growing from agencies and organizations that use LANDFIRE products. Below is a continually updated listing of LANDFIRE-based resources, incuding project reports that were filed upon the completion of the first phase (2004-2009) of the LANDFIRE project. For additional information, resources, publications and reports, please feel free to contact any member of the TNC-LANDFIRE team. And, follow us on Twitter.
Of special interest
LANDFIRE DATA VIEWER: Interactive Map -- The LANDFIRE Project developed a rich suite of consistent spatial data sets for the entire United States (www.landfire.gov). These spatial data sets were designed for very large landscape, regional and national applications. Two spatial layers, Departure and Uncharacteristic Vegetation, are particularly unique and interesting. This map allows you to explore these two products.
LANDFIRE APPLICATION PROJECT REPORTS
Alaska: Using Classification Systems Across Seven Landscapes
All You Need to Know About LANDFIRE -- PowerPoint and audio presentation given via Webinar to the Southern Rockies Fire Science Network. SRFSN's aim is to improve communications between scientists and those who use and benefit from science, and to increase the application of fire science on the ground. Excellent primer and examples from on-the-ground fire and non-fire applications.
Assessing Forest Ecological Integrity Using LANDFIRE and USFS Forest Inventory and Analysis Data
Assessing LANDFIRE National Data in the Ozark National Forest, Bayou Ranger District, Arkansas
Assessment of LANDFIRE Data: Onslow Bight Landscape, North Carolina
Comparison of Locally Developed Fire Regime Condition Class and Fire Threat Information to LANDFIRE National Data in Catron County, NM
Deschutes Upper Basin LANDFIRE Application Project: Collection and Analysis of Local Data in Oregon
Hawaii Assessment and Resource Strategy (SWARS) Analysis: Vegetation Condition Spatial Mapping Layer
LANDFIRE Application Project: East Cascades Dry Forestlands
Michigan's Two Hearted River: Learning About and Improving Mapping Efforts
Wassuk Range, Nevada, Project: GIS Analysis & Metadata Documentation
TNC/LANDFIRE-PRODUCED PUBLICATIONS
The Beer and Coffee Manifesto for Successful Conservation (blog) by Randy Swaty, TNC-LANDFIRE Randy takes pen in hand to offer guidance on how to build successful partnerships while deepening friendships among colleagues.
Conservation Risk for the Lower 48 United States (POSTER)
An Ecological Assessment of Fire and Biodiversity Conservation Across the Lower 48 States (REPORT) This report presents the findings of an assessment of the ecological role and integrity of fire regimes across the lower 48 states of the U.S. Frequent fire return intervals dominate fire regimes across the assessment area.
Ecosystem Conditions Across the Lower 48 States (BROCHURE AND MAP)
Is Nature in Trouble? TNC-LANDFIRE study ups the ante for funding conservation efforts. (COOL GREEN SCIENCE BLOG REPORT ON ECOLOGICAL DEPARTURE/PLOS PAPER)
LANDFIRE at Work -- Resources for Land Managers (POSTER SIZE MAP) - Locations pinpointed where LANDFIRE data/tools are being used in applications beyond fire. Brochure will follow. (June 2011)
LANDFIRE on the Ground: Thumbnail Stories from the Field (BROCHURE)
LANDFIRE Process, Products and Applications (POSTER)
LANDFIRE Summary Report: Supporting Fire and Land Management Across the Nation (REPOT) is a summary of the first five years of the LANDFIRE project. This 16-page, full color overview provides a glimpse into the many aspects of this remarkable partnership.
LANDFIRE Thumbnail Stories from the Field (POSTER)
LANDFIRE Vegetation Modeling Overview (POSTER)
Landscape Conservation Forecasting (POSTER)
Modeling on the Grand Scale: Top Ten Lessons Learned (ONE-PAGE PRIMER ON WORKSHOP PROTOCOLS)
Rapid Assessment of U.S. Forest and Soil Organic Carbon Storage and Forest Bioimass Carbon Sequestration Capacity Report provides results of a rapid assessment of biological carbon stocks and forest biomass carbon sequestration. US DOI and USGS open file report.
Vegetation Departure Calculator (POSTER)
Vegetation Dynamics Modeling Manual (INSTRUCTION MANUAL) offers directions on how to customize products and data to specific applications.
Vegetation Dynamics Models Explained (ONE-PAGE PRIMER)
Wildland Fire in the United States: Then and Now (BROCHURE AND MAP)
LANDFIRE-RELATED PUBLICATIONS, ARTICLES AND REPORTS
Blankenship, Kori. September 2009. Estimating the Conservation Status of Federal Lands Overview prepared for The Nature Conservancy, The Science Chronicles.
Chaplin-Kramer, Rebecca; Tuxen-Bettman, Karin; Kremen, Claire. Value of Wildland Habitat for Supplying Pollination Services to Californian Agriculture. Society for Range Management, June 2011. 36-41
Cochrane, Mark A.; Wimberly, Michael C.; Zhu, Shi-Liang; Ohlen, Don; Finney, Mark and Reeves, Matt. 2011 Fuel Treatment Effectiveness in the United States: Joint Fire Sciences Pilot Project Report This pilot project was requested by the JFSP Governing Board to provide the necessary ‘proof of concept’ for our proposed national assessment of fuel treatment effectiveness. Specifically, we were requested to address concerns about the utility of both NFPORS and LANDFIRE data for the proposed study.
Colorado Statewide Forest Resource Assessment: Full Report The assessment provides a spatial overview of Colorado’s forests and display areas in the state where resources are best focused to achieve desire future conditions.
Colorado Statewide Forest Resource Assessment: Overview LANDFIRE Products Inform Colorado Statewide Forest Resource Assessment: Overview Two-page overview of the Colorado Statewide Forest Assessment.
Connelly, J.W., C.A. HAGEN and M.A. Schroeder. 2011. Characteristics and dynamics of Greater Sage-Grouse populations. In S. T. Knick and J. W. Connelly (eds). Greater Sage-Grouse: Ecology and conservation of a landscape species and its habitats. Studies in Avian Biology Series (vol. 38), University of California Press, Berkeley, CA. LANDFIRE Summary.
Farnsworth, Dustin. 2009. Establishing restoration baselines for the Loess Hills region. MS Thesis. Iowa State University.
Graham, Russell, Mark Finney, Chuck McHugh, Jack Cohen, Rick Stratton, Larry Bradshaw, Ned Nikolov, Dave Calkin. Fourmile Canyon Fire Preliminary Findings. USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. Revised October 12, 2011. 99 pp.
Hessburg, P.F., K.M. Reynolds, R.E. Keane, K.M. James, R.B. Salter. 2007. Evaluating wildland fire danger and prioritizing vegetation and fuels treatments. Forest Ecology and Management 247:1–17.
Hoekstra, Jonathan M., Timothy M. Boucher, Taylor H. Ricketts, Carter Roberts. 2005. Confronting a biome crisis: global disparities of habitat loss and protection. Ecology Letters (2005): 23-29.
Hunter, M.E., J.M. Iniguez and L.B. Lentile. 2011. Short- and Long-Term Effects on Fuels, Forest Structure, and Wildfire Potential from Prescribed Fire and Resource Benefit Fire in Southwestern Forests, USA. Fire Ecology. 7(3): 108-121. AVAILABLE ONLINE.
Keane, Robert E.; Rollins, Matthew G.; McNicoll, Cecilia H.; Parsons, Russell A. 2002. Integrating ecosystem sampling, gradient modeling, remote sensing, and ecosystem simulation to create spatially explicit landscape inventories. RMRS-GTR-92. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, 61 p. ONLINE PUBLICATION
Knick, S. T. and J.W. Connelly (eds). 2011. Greater Sage-Grouse: Ecology and conservation of a landscape species and its habitats. Studies in Avian Biology Series (vol. 38). University of California Press, Berkeley, CA. (See Chapters 3, 10, 13, 16, and 17.) LANDFIRE SUMMARY
Krasnow, K., Schoennagel, T., and Veblen, T.T. 2009. Forest fuel mapping and evaluation of LANDFIRE fuel maps in Boulder, County, Colorado, USA. Forest Ecology and Management 257: 1603-1612.
Land Type Associations of the Hiawatha National Forest. Report issued by USDA Forest Service and The Nature Conservancy of Michigan. 2011. 185 pp.
Low, Greg; Provencher, Louis and Abele, Susan 2010. Enhanced conservation action planning: Assessing landscape condition and predicting benefits of conservation strategies. Journal of Conservation Planning, Vol 6 (2010) 36-60. TNC personnel in Nevada developed an enhanced planning method that extends the CAP process.
Low, Greg - Northern Sierra Project Director; Cameron, Dick; Klausmeyer, Kirk; Mackenzie, Jason and Provencher, Louis. May 2011. Forecasting the Response of Terrestrial Habitats to Climate Change in the Northern Sierra: Climate Adaptation Strategies for the Northern Sierra Partnership.
Low, Greg; Provencher, Louis and Abele, Susan. 2010. Genies in the Bottle: Tools to Assess Landscape Health & Predict Benefits of Conservation Strategies report demonstrates how to use "Advanced CAP" methods to prioritize public lands management decisions.
Miller, Lara Wood; Rich, Peter and Schumann, Martha. December 30 2009. Upper Mimbres Watershed Landscape Assessment: A Report Prepared for the US Fire Learning Network Stakeholders conduct a rapid landscape-scale resource assessment that will provide a basis for developing a collaborative fire management plan for the Upper Mimbres Watershed. Fire Learning Network affiliate.
National Biomass and Carbon Dataset for the year 2000 First ever spatially explicit inventory of its kind. Available from Woods Hole Research Center.
Northeast Wildfire Risk Assessment Geospatial Work Group Area Assessment, Phase 1, January 2010. Team is developing baseline assessment of fire risk in the Northeastern area of the United States, especially with regard to wildland urban interface.
Nowacki, Gregory J. and Marc D. Abrams. 2008. The Demise of Fire and "Mesophication" of Forests in the Eastern United States. BioScience 58-2. 123-138.
Pohl, Kelly; Schulz, Terri; Strenge, Ernst; Babler, Mike and Shlisky, Ayn. October 2005. Dynamic Vegetation Modeling: Driving Management Changes Today by Looking into the Past and Future Society of American Foresters National Convention. The authors demonstrate the state-and-transition modeling tools used in LANDFIRE, including use of VDDT (Vegetation Dynamics Development Tool) software.
Pohl, Kelly; Schulz, Terri; Strenge, Ernst; Babler, Mike and Shlisky, Ayn. October 2005. Estimating Historic Fire Conditions: Looking Back to See Ahead. The Nature Conservancy's Science Chronicles. The TNC-Landfire team explains how historic fire conditions and proper ecological function can be determined in the face of current disturbances.
Provencher, Louis; Blankenship, Kori; Smith, Jim; Campbell, Jeff; and Polly, Mike. Comparing Locally Derived and LANDFIRE Geo-Layers in the Great Basin, USA. Fire Ecology, Vol 5, No. 2, 2009. Locally derived maps of pre-European settlement vegetation patterns (BpS) and Fire Regime Condition Class (FRCC) were compared to concomitant products from LANDFIRE in western Nevada.
Provencher, Louis; Campbell, Jeff and Nachlinger, Jan. 2008. Implementation of mid-scale fire regime condition class mapping at Mt. Grant, Nevada. International Journal of Wildland Fire 2008 (17), 390-406. Authors used mid-scale FRCC mapping to provide Hawthorne Army Depot with data layers to plan fuels restoration projects.
Provencher, Louis; Low, Greg; Abele, Susan; Tuhy, Joel. July 2011. Conservation Planning Using Landscape Conservation Forecasting™. The Nature Conservancy. Final reports regarding fire science work in the Bodie Hills, Spring Mountains, Fremont River, Powell Ranger District, Great Basin National Park, Mt. Grant, Wassuk Range, and Ward Mountain. Also, LCF poster, the NSP climate adaptation assessment, and TNC reports on WAP Documentation and on Spatial Modeling. Currently collected in Zip file, but will be posted separately. (posted July 6, 2011).
Provencher, Louis; Low, Greg; Abele, Susan; Anderson, Tany; and Tuhy, Joel. April 2011. The Landscape Conservation Forecasting Process: Six Primary Components or Steps.
Reeves, M.C., J.R. Kost, and K.C. Ryan. 2006. Fuels products of the LANDFIRE Project. p. 239–252 in Proceedings of a Conference on Fuels Management—How to measure success. Portland, OR, Mar. 28–30, 2006,. Andrews, P.L., and Butler, B.W. (comps.). USDA Forest Service. Proc. RMRS-P-41. AVAILABLE ONLINE
Reynolds, K., P.F. Hessburg, R.E. Keane, J.P. Menakis. 2009. National fuel-treatment budgeting in US federal agencies: Capturing opportunities for transparent decision-making. Forest Ecology and Management 258: 2373–2381
Rollins, Matthew G. LANDFIRE: a nationally consistent vegetation, wildland fire, and fuel assessment. International Journal of Wildland Fire (IAWF 2009), 18: 235-249 Multi-partner effort meets agency and partner needs for comprehensive, integrated data to support landscape-level fire management planning and prioritization, community and firefighter protection, effective resource allocation, and collaboration between agencies and the public.
Rollins, Matthew G.; Frame, Christine K., tech. eds. 2006. The LANDFIRE Prototype Project: nationally consistent and locally relevant geospatial data for wildland fire management. Gen. Tech. Rep. RMRS-GTR-175. Fort Collins: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 416p.
Schmidt, Kirsten M.; Menakis, James P.; Hardy, Colin C.; Hann, Wendel J.; Bunnell, David L. 2002. Development of coarse-scale spatial data for wildland fire and fuel management. Gen. Tech. Rep. RMRS-GTR-87. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 41 p. + CD.
Silbernagle, Janet; Price, Jessica; Swaty, Randy; and Mill, Nicholas. "The Next Frontier: Projecting the Effectiveness of Broad-scale Forest Conservation Strategies." In Landscape Ecology in Forest Management and Conservation: Challenges and Solutions for Global Change. February 2011. Springer (International Publisher, Science, Technology and Medicine) and China-based Higher Education Press, publishers.
Swaty, R., Blankenship, K., Hagen, S., Fargione, J., Smith, J, et al. (2011) Accounting for Ecosystem Alteration Doubles Estimates of Conservation Risk in the Conterminous United States. PLoS ONE 6(8): e23002. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0023002. Also available as a pdf: http://bit.ly/qYGP4L. Link to The Nature Conservancy's "COOL GREEN SCIENCE" blog for editorial comment on this report.
Swaty, Randy. 2010. LANDFIRE-Based information for the Stone-Moss Mid-Scale Planning Unit: Hiawatha National Forest Collaboration between US Forest Service Region 9 staff and The Nature Conservancy in Wisconsin to help the region apply LANDFIRE data, focusing on the Hiawatha national Forest (Great Lakes Region).
Swaty, Randy. 2010. LANDFIRE Data Support for the Raco Plains Mid-Scale Assessment: Great Lakes Region A landscape-scale perspective for the Raco Plains that explores the potential utility of LANDFIRE data and suggests opportunities in the Hiawatha National Forest.
Swetnam, Tyson L. and Brown, Peter M. 2010. Comparing selected fire regime condition class (FRCC) and LANDFIRE vegetation model results with tree-ring data. International Journal of Wildland Fire 2010, 19:1–13. Comparison of selected FRCC and LANDFIRE vegetation characteristics derived from simulation modeling with similar characteristics reconstructed from tree-ring data collected from 11 forested sites in Utah.
Toney, C., M. Rollins, K. Short, T. Frascino, R. Tymcio, and B. Peterson. 2007. Use of FIA Plot Data in the LANDFIRE Project. P. 309–319 in Proc. seventh annual forest inventory and analysis symp. McRoberts, R.E., G.A. Reams, P.C. Van Deusen, and W. H. McWilliams (eds.). US For. Serv. Gen. Tech. Rep. WO-77. AVAILABLE ONLINE
United States Geological Survey and Department of Interior. 2009. Rapid Assessment of U.S. Forest and Soil Organic Carbon Storage and Forest Biomass Carbon Sequestration Capacity Report provides results of rapid assessment of biological carbon stocks and foreset carbon sequestration capacity.
USDA Forest Service. Wildfire Simulation Technology USFS scientists use LANDFIRE data/tools when making fire simulations for training.
Van de Water, K.M. and H.D. Safford. 2011. A Summary of Fire Frequency Estimates for California Vegetation before Euro-American Settlement. Fire Ecology. 7(3): 26-58. AVAILABLE ONLINE.
Vogelmann, J.E.; Kost, J.R.; Tolk, B.; Howard, S.; Short, K.; Xuexia Chen; Chengquan Huang; Pabst, K.; Rollins, M.G.; USGS Earth Resources Obs. & Sci. (EROS) Center, Sioux Falls, SD. "Monitoring Landscape Change for LANDFIRE Using Multi-Temporal Satellite Imagery and Ancillary Data." In: Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing. June 2011. Vol 4:2. 252-264.
Weisz, Reuben; Tripeke, Jack and Truman, Russ. 2009. Fire Ecology 5(1):100-114. Evaluating the Ecological Sustainability of a Ponderosa Pine Ecosystem on the Kaibab Plateau in Northern Arizona Using the Vegetation Dynamics Development Tool (VDDT), the authors constructed state-and-transition models (STM) for cold ponderosa pine bunchgrass systems of northern Arizona.
Wiedinmyer, Christin and Hurteau, Matthew D. 2010. Prescribed Fire As a Means of Reducing Forest Carbon Emissions in the Western United States Environmental Science and Technology 44: 1926-1932. Authors report on the relationship between wildfire and carbon emissions. LANDFIRE maps are used.
WEBSITES and LINKS
BlueSkyRains fire, fuels and smoke modeling
EROS: Earth Resources Observation and Science Center (USGS)
Fire Regime Condition Class Mapping Tool
Fuel Model Guide to Alaska Vegetation
LANDFIRE National website: Home page
LANDFIRE National website: Ashley Lakes Wildland Risk Assessment
LANDFIRE National website: Data Distribution
LANDFIRE National Website: Data Product Descriptions
LANDFIRE National Website: Information Bulletins from 2002 to September 2010
LANDFIRE National website: Resources Listings
LANDFIRE National website: Vegetation Dynamics Models & FRCC to Support Ecological Assessments
LANDFIRE -- Vegetation, Fuel, Fire and More
Montana Weed Management Project uses VDDT and TELSA
The Nature Conservancy's Fire Program
The Nature Conservancy US Fire Learning Network
NatureServe Ecological Systems for the United States
NIFTT: National Interagency Fuels, Fire, and Vegetation Technology Transfer
POSTERS, GRAPHICS, MAPS, NEWSLETTERS
Adapting LANDFIRE vegetation models for restoration planning (POSTER)
Assessing the Utility of LANDFIRE Data for Local and Landscape Analysis in Eastern North Carolina (POSTER)
Conservation Risk for the Lower 48 United States (POSTER)
Controlled Burning for Safe Communities & Healthy Ecosystems (TNC brochure) (Highlights controlled burns across the Sandhills and southeastern North Carolina)
Don't Let The Name Fool You: LANDFIRE products applied to terrestrial part of watershed equations. (POSTER)
Ecosystem Conditions Across the Lower 48 States (BROCHURE AND MAP)
Forested Systems Departure: The Difference Between Current Vegetation and Reference Conditions (MAP)
LANDFIRE at Work -- Resources for Land Managers (POSTER SIZE MAP) ANDFIRE map zones (PDF image)
LANDFIRE National Fire Regime Condition Class (FRCC) (MAP)
LANDFIRE on the Ground: Thumbnail Stories from the Field (POSTER)
LANDFIRE on the Ground: Thumbnail Stories from the Field (BROCHURE)
LANDFIRE Process, Products and Applications (POSTER)
LANDFIRE: Responding to Feedback and User Needs (POSTER)
LANDFIRE Resource Planning Process Diagram (jpg)
LANDFIRE Vegetation Modeling Overview (POSTER)
Landscape Conservation Forecasting™ (POSTER)
National Interagency Fuels, Fire & Vegetation Technology Transfer (NIFTT BROCHURE)
Resource Planning Process Simplified: Four Steps using LANDFIRE (GRAPHIC)
Rocky Mountain Research Station: Guidebook on LANDFIRE fuels data acquisition, critique, modification, maintenance and model
Simulating Treatment Effects in Pine-Oak Forests of the Ouachita Mountains (POSTER)
Tools for Landscape Planning & Management (BROCHURE AND MAP)
Wildland Fire in the United States: Then and Now (BROCHURE AND MAP)
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