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Project ID: 05-4-2-18

Year: 2005

Date Started: 05/13/2005

Date Completed: 03/26/2008

Title: A Synthesis of Live Fuel Moisture and Wildland Fire, and Development of a National Historical Live Fuel Moisture Database

Project Proposal Abstract: Live fuel moisture plays an important role in wildland fire. There is a need for a complete information synthesis on live fuel moisture that fire managers can use in wildland fire planning and implementation activities. And a complete review is needed to identify areas where additional investigations are required. We will prepare a synthesis of available information on live fuel moisture and wildland fire including combustion of live fuel, role of live fuel moisture in existing fire potential and fire behavior models and decision support systems, published observed fuel moisture data and seasonal trends for various species, operational sampling methods and programs, and remote sensing of live fuel moisture and vegetation state. This approach will summarize a wealth of important information into readily-useable references useful to fire managers and to researchers. We will produce two papers from this analysis: a research station publication and a peer-reviewed journal article. An annotated bibliography will be made available on the web, with scanned copies of proceedings and agency papers. We will also parse available historical live fuel moisture datasets into a user-friendly database and make it available through the World Wide Web.

Principal Investigator: William ’Matt’ M. Jolly

Agency/Organization: Forest Service

Branch or Dept: RMRS-Fire Sciences Lab-Missoula

Other Project Collaborators

Type	Name	Agency/Organization	Branch or Dept
Co-Principal Investigator	Patricia L. Andrews	Forest Service	RMRS-Fire Sciences Lab-Missoula
Co-Principal Investigator	Colin C. Hardy	Forest Service	RMRS-Fire, Fuel & Smoke Science Program
Federal Cooperator	James Saveland	Forest Service	RMRS-Natural Resources Research Center

Project Locations

Consortium

Alaska

Appalachian

California

Great Basin

Great Plains

Lake States

Oak Woodlands

Northern Rockies

Northwest

Pacific

South

Southern Rockies

Southwest

Tallgrass

There are no project locations identified for this project.

Project Deliverables

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
	7473	Refereed Publication	Sensitivity of a Surface Fire Spread Model and Associated Fire Behaviour Fuel Models to Changes in Live Fuel Moisture
	4523	NonRefereed Publication	Sensitivity of a Fire Behavior Model to Changes in Live Fuel Moisture

Supporting Documents

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