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Project ID: 03-4-1-04

Year: 2004

Date Started: 03/08/2004

Date Completed: 10/01/2007

Title: Developing an Analysis and Planning Framework for District-Level Fuels Treatments Projects

Project Proposal Abstract: This project concerns tools and methods for landscape analysis of fire and fuels. The project was approved by the Joint Fires Sciences Board in 2003 and funded for the first year to develop a "proof of concept." The remaining funding (two years) was subject to satisfactory proof of concept . The project was conceived after the PIs worked on a fuels reduction project in the Blue Mountains and found a puzzling array of unlinked models and data for analyzing fuel treatment scenarios. The goal of the project is to provide specialists and planners with a framework for simulating alternative treatment scenarios through time and capturing the differences between various scenarios in terms of potential fire effects, insect mortality, visual impacts, financial outcomes, and other attributes. As part of the project the methods and tools are being applied on a multi-ownership wildland urban interface (40,000 acres; Mt. Emily WUT), and a large watershed in the Blue Mountains (430,000 acres; Upper Grande Ronde subbasin). A third test area in the Stehekin Valley within the North Cascades National Park was later added to the project. For the proof of concept, we built a prototype framework of software and methods that linked existing models, and applied it to the Mt Emily study area. A number of reports, publications, and presentations of the methods and results were completed. We described analysis methods, new tools, and reported on the effects of different fuel treatment strategies on potential fire behavior. The remaining work on the project involves integration of the framework (provisionally named "ARCFUELS") within desktop software (ARCGIS and MS0ffice), and further application on the test areas. We will write and publish framework documents, distribute ARCFUELS via the web, and generate peer-reviewed case study papers from our study areas, and organize a session in conjunction with the circa 2005 FVS conference in Fort Collins to showcase our work and bring together other users of this type of technology.

Principal Investigator: Alan A. Ager

Agency/Organization: Forest Service

Branch or Dept: Umatilla National Forest

Other Project Collaborators

Type	Name	Agency/Organization	Branch or Dept
Co-Principal Investigator	Jamie Barbour	Forest Service	PNW-Forestry Sciences Lab-Portland
Co-Principal Investigator	Robert J. McGaughey	Forest Service	PNW-Seattle-Managing Natural Disturbances
Federal Cooperator	Alan A. Ager	Forest Service	Umatilla National Forest

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
	6592	Refereed Publication	Using ArcObjects for Automating Fireshed Assessments and Analyzing Wildfire Risk
	9376	Refereed Publication	Modeling the Effects of Thinning on Bark Beetle Impacts and Wildfire Potential in the Blue Mountains of Eastern Oregon
	6590	Refereed Publication	Modeling Wildfire Risk to Late Successional Forest Reserves in the Pacific Northwest, USA
	6597	Refereed Publication	ArcFuels: Forest Planning Tools for Managing Wildland Fuels
	6596	Refereed Publication	Using ArcObjects for Automating Fireshed Assessments and Analyzing Wildfire Risk
	6595	Refereed Publication	A Wildfire Risk Modeling System for Evaluating Landscape Fuel Treatment Strategies
	6594	Refereed Publication	Modeling Framework for Simulating the Long-Term Effects of Fuels Management Scenarios on Bark Beetles in Eastern Oregon
	6593	Refereed Publication	A Simulation Study of Forest Restoration and Fuels Treatments on a Wildland-Urban Interface
	6591	Refereed Publication	Automating Fireshed Assessments and Analyzing Wildfire Risk with ArcObjects and ArcGIS
	9375	Refereed Publication	Modeling Wildfire Risk to Northern Spotted Owl (Strix occidentalis caurina) Habitat in Central Oregon, USA

Supporting Documents

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