Joint Fire Science Program

JFSP Ten-Year Symposium

JFSP is organizing a three-day symposium at the Fire Congress in Savannah focused on what has been learned from 10 years of fire science investment, how that has changed science and management, and what we need to learn in the next 5-10 years. It is part of a larger effort by the JFSP Governing Board to take stock of where we are and lay out a strategy for future JFSP investment.

Please come to Savannah and help us celebrate 10 years of fire science and application, and chart a path forward for the next 10 years. Here is the agenda.

Fire Science Digest

This JFSP publication is a summarization of a current issue and is produced several times each year.

Community Wildfire Protection Plans: Reducing Wildfire Hazards in the Wildland Urban Interface

Wildland Fire Use: Managing for a Fire-Smart Landscape

Big Changes in the Great Basin

The Rothermel Fire-Spread Model: Still Running Like a Champ

The Fire-Climate Connection

JFSP Briefs

Fire Science Briefs

These JFSP publications are a summarization of a completed research project.

Improving a Widely-used Tree Mortality Model: Better Predictions Change the Landscape
Low-intensity Fire in Eastern White Pine: A Supporting Role in Understory Diversity
Masticating Fuels: Effects of Prescribed Fire Behavior and Subsequent Vegetation Effects
Mitigating Debris Flows in the Post-fire Landscape
Over 50 Years of Burning on the South Carolina Coastal Plain
Recovery After Fire in Klamath-Siskiyou: What Happens Without Planting?
Salt Cedar: Is Burning an Option?
Sharpening the Tools for Prescribed Burns in Eastern Mixed Oak Forests

Improving a Widely-used Tree Mortality Model: Better Predictions Change the Landscape

Low-intensity Fire in Eastern White Pine: A Supporting Role in Understory Diversity

Masticating Fuels: Effects of Prescribed Fire Behavior and Subsequent Vegetation Effects

Mitigating Debris Flows in the Post-fire Landscape

Over 50 Years of Burning on the South Carolina Coastal Plain

Recovery After Fire in Klamath-Siskiyou: What Happens Without Planting?

Salt Cedar: Is Burning an Option?

Sharpening the Tools for Prescribed Burns in Eastern Mixed Oak Forests

You can read more Briefs here.

JFSP Science You Can Use

Science You Can Use

Great Basin
Piñon and Juniper Field Guide: Asking the Right Questions to Select Appropriate Management Actions
Post-fire plant recovery in the Mojave and Sonoran Deserts of western North America
Using a diverse seed mix to establish native plants on a Sonoran Desert burn
Community Wildfire Protection Planning
Interpreting federal policy at the local level: the wildland–urban interface concept in wildfire protection planning in the eastern United States
Post-Fire Timber Harvest
Effects of Timber Harvest Following Wildfire in Western North America
Influence of Postfire Salvage Logging on Black-backed Woodpecker Nest-site Selection and Nest Survival
Ecological Foundations for Fire Management
Ecological Foundations for Fire Management in North American Forest and Shrubland Ecosystems
Bark Beetles
The Western Bark Beetle Research Group: A Unique Collaboration With Forest Health Protection Proceedings
Biomass
Assessing the Potential for Conversion to Biomass Fuels in Interior Alaska
Sierra Nevada
An Ecosystem Management Strategy for Sierran Mixed-Conifer Forests
South
Eight years of seasonal burning and herbicidal brush control influence sapling longleaf pine growth, understory vegetation, and the outcome of an ensuing wildfire
Southwest
A Plan for Landscape Fire Restoration in the Southwestern Borderlands
Spatially and Temporally Variable Fire Regime on Rincon Peak, Arizona, USA
Post-Wildfire Recovery of Riparian Vegetation During a Period of Water Scarcity in the Southwestern USA
Wildfire Costs
The True Cost of Wildfire in the Western U.S.
Challenges of Socio-economically Evaluating Wildfire Management on Non-industrial Private and Public Forestland in the Western United States

You can read additional stories here.

Now Open - Requests for Regional Science Delivery and Outreach Proposals

Announcement closes on July 10, 2009.

Proposal submission packets can be found at grants.gov

Click on Grant Search on the right under FOR APPLICANTS.
Search by CFDA Number: 15.232
Click on the Full Announcement that you are interested in.
Do not click on the Application button to apply through the Grants.gov system. See Electronic Proposal Submission instructions below.

If you have any problems finding the announcement, please contact Tim Swedberg.

Electronic Proposal Submission

To submit an electronic proposal you must login to the JFSP database. If you do not already have a login username and password, then you must register for one. Please allow us 2 working days to establish new profiles.

All Principal Investigators, Co-Principal Investigators, Federal Fiscal Representatives, and Federal Cooperators will need profiles. Only the Principal Investigator identified with each proposal can submit the completed proposal.

If you need technical assistance, click on the Contact Us button.

Caution

Each RFA (Request for Announcement) has a unique template that is required to be completed. You are responsible for reading, understanding, and complying with the unique requirements for each RFA. Proposals failing to address all requirements will not be considered for funding.

NOTICE: If you hare having problems attaching files to your proposal and are using FireFox or Safari, you will need to login using Internet Explorer and attach your files. If you are having trouble reaching the secure login page to register for a profile, make sure that your browser is set to use TLS (for Internet Explorer, go to Tools, Internet Options, Advanced tab, check TLS 1.0).