Want to Work for JFSP?
The JFSP will soon be advertising a permanent GS 12 Technical Editor position. Please share with anyone who might be interested in applying. We want someone who has had fire experience.
JFSP Investment Strategy
The JFSP Governing Board developed an investment strategy to guide future research, synthesis, and science delivery activities of the Program. Take a look at our future direction.
2009 Selected Projects
The JFSP Governing Board has selected projects for new fire science research including a new science initiative addressing climate change and fire. In addition, synthesis projects are focused on extreme fire behavior, fire history and climate change, and a continuation of the JFSP Fuel Treatment Guides. A special issue supported in 2009 responds to a Department of Interior request to examine Emergency Stabilization & Restoration effectiveness in the Great Basin. And finally, the JFSP is launching planning efforts to develop 9 regional fire science delivery consortiums. View the following documents for more information:
August 2009 Research Awards
August 2009 New Science Climate Change and Fire
August 2009 Synthesis and Conferences
August 2009 ES and R Great Basin
August 2009 Regional Science Delivery
JFSP Digest
Fire Science Digest
This JFSP publication is a summarization of a current issue and is produced several times each year.
JFSP Briefs
Fire Science Briefs
These JFSP publications are a summarization of a completed research project.
You can read more Briefs here.
JFSP Science You Can Use
Science You Can Use
Oregon Conference |
A Workshop for: Creating Stand-Level Prescriptions to Integrate Ecological & Fuel Management Objectives for Dry Forests of the Eastern Cascade Range |
Great Basin Native Plant Communities |
Interaction of historical and nonhistorical disturbances maintains native plant communities |
SageSTEP |
On Thursday August 6, a wildfire consumed the SageSTEP Stansbury study plots located on the west side of the Stansbury Mountains on land managed by the USDA Forest Service. The Big Pole fire was started by a lightning strike and consumed most of the west-facing side of the mountains...
Read more about this and other news related to the SageSTEP study.
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Arizona Climate Change |
Modeling Forest Change and Management Alternatives on a
Restored Landscape: Future Climate Affects Management Strategies for Maintaining Forest Restoration Treatments |
Society of Range Management |
We encourage you to visit the Society for Range Management website at:
http://www.rangelands.org/ for quality information and in particular we would like to draw your attention to the current edition of Rangelands focused on wildfires and invasive plants in American deserts. Following are articles from the June 2009 edition. |
SRM Center for Professional Education and Development: Wildfires and Invasive Plants in American Deserts |
Fire and Invasive Species Management in Hot Deserts: Resources, Strategies, Tactics, and Response
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Cold Desert Fire and Invasive Species Management: Resources, Strategies, Tactics, and Response |
Effective Management of Invasive Plants |
Fuels Management at the Landscape Scale |
Wildfire Rehabilitation and Restoration: Triage in Pursuit of Resilience |
Black Hills |
Current management efforts to create stand structures more resistant to the initiation and spread of crown fire include increasing CBH and reducing CBD below the threshold where crown fire can be initiated and carried through the tree canopy. New research in the Black Hills of South Dakota suggests that FFE-FVS, as presently formulated, would misdiagnose fire hazard in a substantial number of Black Hills ponderosa pine stands. Further, where FFE-FVS is used to design and evaluate fuels treatments, it is probable that either the amount of density reduction necessary to achieve a desired effect will be underestimated, or the longevity of effectiveness of a given treatment will be overestimated. Take a look at this final report…
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