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Project ID: 99-1-3-12

Year: 2000

Date Started: 10/21/1999

Date Completed: 03/13/2001

Title: Quantification of Canopy Fuels in Conifer Forests

Project Proposal Abstract: This proposal is in response to Task 3 of the February 23, 1999 Request for Proposals: develop, evaluate, or compare methods or approaches to incorporate wildland fuels management information into landscape scale land use and planning processes. In particular, we propose to develop and test techniques for canopy fuel data collection. The project directly addresses two of the four critical issues addressed in the Joint Fire Science Plan. In this project we will develop and verify a consistent method for inventorying canopy fuels that can be used across agency boundaries (Issue 1). The inventory method will allow managers to more accurately assess the effects of fuel treatments on canopy fuel characteristics and expected fire behavior (Issue 2). We also indirectly address Issues 3 and 4 by establishing a consistent procedure for canopy fuel characterization. Products of this research will be of direct and immediate benefit to wildland managers in federal agencies for mapping fuels, assessing hazard and risk, designing hazard mitigation treatments, and simulating fire behavior and effects. A consistent method of characterizing canopy fuels is particularly important in landscape- level planning projects that cross administrative or ecological boundaries. The proposed starting date for this project is winter/spring 2000.

Principal Investigator: Joe H. Scott

Agency/Organization: Pyrologix

Branch or Dept:

Other Project Collaborators

Type	Name	Agency/Organization	Branch or Dept
Co-Principal Investigator	Robert E. Keane	Forest Service	RMRS-Fire, Fuel & Smoke Science Program
Collaborator/Contributor	James K. Brown	Forest Service	RMRS-Fire Sciences Lab-Missoula
Federal Cooperator	Elizabeth D. Reinhardt	Forest Service	RMRS-Fire Sciences Lab-Missoula

Project Locations

Consortium

California

Northern Rockies

Northwest

Southwest

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
	3229	Refereed Publication	Estimating Canopy Fuel Characteristics in Five Conifer Stands in the Western United States Using Tree and Stand Measurements
	3230	Refereed Publication	Estimating Forest Canopy Bulk Density Using Six Indirect Methods
	3234	Refereed Publication	Effects of Alternative Treatments on Canopy Fuel Characteristics in Five Conifer Stands
	3233	NonRefereed Publication	Stereo Photo Guide for Estimating Canopy Fuel Characteristics in Conifer Stands
	3232	NonRefereed Publication	Estimating Canopy Fuels in Conifer Forests
	3231	NonRefereed Publication	Analysis of Algorithms for Predicting Canopy Fuel

Supporting Documents

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