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Project ID: 04-4-1-12

Year: 2004

Date Started: 07/23/2004

Date Completed: 09/04/2007

Title: Geo-Spatial Wildland Management Tool

Project Proposal Abstract: This proposal is in response to Task 1: Science Application Partnerships, as described in the Joint Fire Science Program Announcement for Proposals 2004-4. The current GeoWEPP spatial erosion modeling tool is showing great promise for applications to Burned Area Emergency Rehabilitation (BAER) erosion analysis, postfire salvage logging analysis, and cumulative watershed effects analysis of fuel management treatments, including thinning and prescribed fire. In BLM and Forest Service workshops in the past year, the current generic GeoWEPP tool has been presented, and users have enthusiastically encouraged us to further develop and refine this tool for fire and fuel management applications. GeoWEPP was used on at least one fire during this past fire season in spite of its generic nature, and we expect to see increasing demand for this new spatial analysis tool in the coming years as increased incidences of wildfires are coincident with increased fuel management activities. To make this promising tool more useful, we propose to customize GeoWEPP specifically for fire and fuel management. We propose to build custom databases, and prepare three custom interfaces in ArcGIS specifically for 1) BAER analysis, 2) salvage logging analysis, and 3) fuel management (mulching, thinning, and prescribed fire) analysis. We will also prepare analysis worksheets and prepare model documentation. All products will be available online from at least two public websites. During the short 18-mn duration of this proposal we will also present the model to potential users at a minimum of four workshops, targeting improvements on feedback received from every workshop. In the year following the completion of this project, we anticipate several peer-review papers on the development, application, and validation of the new tool. We expect that the outcome of this proposal will be improved watershed analysis to support wildfire rehabilitation and fuel management activities.

Principal Investigator: Chris S. Renschler

Agency/Organization: University of Buffalo

Branch or Dept: Department of Geography

Other Project Collaborators

Type	Name	Agency/Organization	Branch or Dept
Federal Cooperator	William J. Elliot	Forest Service	RMRS-Forestry Sciences Lab-Moscow

Project Locations

Consortium

Alaska

Appalachian

California

Great Basin

Great Plains

Lake States

Oak Woodlands

Northern Rockies

Northwest

Pacific

South

Southern Rockies

Southwest

Tallgrass

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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
	6310	Refereed Publication	A Coupled Upland-Erosion, Instream Hydrodynamic-Sediment Transport Model for Assessing Primary Impacts of Forest Management Practices on Sediment Yield and Delivery
	6313	Refereed Publication	A Coupled Upland-Erosion and Instream Hydrodynamic-Sediment Transport Model for Evaluating Sediment Transport in Forested Watersheds
	6309	Refereed Publication	Spatially Distributed Assessment of Short- and Long-Term Impacts of Multiple Best Management Practices in Agricultural Watersheds
	6311	Refereed Publication	Effects of DEM Resolution on the WEPP Runoff and Erosion Predictions: A Case Study of Forest Areas in Northern Idaho
	6308	Refereed Publication	Modeling Response of Soil Erosion and Runoff to Changes in Precipitation and Cover
	6307	Refereed Publication	Predicting Cumulative Watershed Effects of Fuel Management with Improved WEPP Technology
	6306	Refereed Publication	Evaluation of Runoff Prediction from WEPP-Based Erosion Models for Harveted and Burned Forest Watersheds
	6315	Refereed Publication	Erosion Risks in Selected Watersheds for the 2005 School Fire Located Near Pomeroy, Washington on Predominately Ash-Cap Soils
	6298	Invited Paper/Presentation	Using WEPP Technology to Predict Erosion and Runoff Following Wildfire
	6295	Invited Paper/Presentation	Integrated Research and Implementation in GIScience and Extreme Events: Developing Tools for Mitigation and Response
	6312	MS Thesis	Integrating GIScience and Environmental Models for a GISystem-Based Natural Resource Management Tool (M.W. Minkowski)
	6314	MS Thesis	Adapting WEPP (Water Erosion Prediction Project) for Forest Watershed Erosion Modeling (S.Dun)

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