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Project ID: 05-4-1-21

Year: 2005

Date Started: 05/11/2005

Date Completed: 05/05/2009

Title: Development and Delivery of Version 2 of the Fire and Fuels Extension to the Forest Vegetation Simulator

Project Proposal Abstract: This project is designed to provide an improved version of the Fire and Fuels Extension to the Forest Vegetation Simulator (FFE-FVS), a program whose original development was largely financed by the JFSP. The program is widely used by JFSP member agencies and several JFSP-sponsored research projects to support analysis at the stand to large landscape spatial scales. New research results are now available that render parts of the model obsolete and experience with the model has clearly demonstrated some parts of the model which need to be improved. While the model currently enjoys wide acceptance among users, they and the stakeholders they serve, have an expectation that these shortcomings will be addressed and the model will contain the best available science. Filling that need is the major purpose of this work, filling the mandate stated in Task 3 of AFP 2005-4. Equally important are issues regarding support, training, and system usability. To the extent that these are considered technology transfer they fall under Task 1 and to the extent they are considered model development they fall under Task 3. We propose to conduct six on-site training sessions per year over the first 2-years of the program and provide six onsite assistance visits for each of these years. This work will utilize the latest revisions of FFE-FVS as version 2 is developed, not the current operational version 1 of FFE-FVS, as proscribed by the AFP. In addition to being an efficient technology transfer procedure, this work is considered as beta-testing of the latest revisions and will help guide version 2 development. System usability is addressed in two areas: 1) the graphical user interface (Suppose) needs to modified to improve ease of use and provide new tools to simulate management actions, and 2) FFE-FVS needs additional options to support silviculture treatments designed to change fire behavior.

Principal Investigator: Stephanie A. Rebain

Agency/Organization: Forest Service

Branch or Dept: RMRS-Forest Management Service Center

Other Project Collaborators

Type	Name	Agency/Organization	Branch or Dept
Co-Principal Investigator	Nicholas L. Crookston	Forest Service	RMRS-Forestry Sciences Lab-Moscow
Co-Principal Investigator	Gary E. Dixon	Forest Service	RMRS-Forest Management Service Center
Co-Principal Investigator	Elizabeth D. Reinhardt	Forest Service	RMRS-Fire Sciences Lab-Missoula
Federal Cooperator	Dennis E. Ferguson	Forest Service	RMRS-Forestry Sciences Lab-Moscow

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Final Report ("Results presented in JFSP Final Reports may not have been peer-reviewed and should be interpreted as tentative until published in a peer-reviewed source.")

	ID	Type	Title
	7986	Photo	Photo from Bent Creek training 2007
	7985	Photo	Photo from Bent Creek training 2007

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