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Project ID:

01-1-7-02

Year:

2001

Date Started:

09/19/2001

Date Completed:

06/21/2005

Title:

Photo Series for Major Natural Fuel Types of the United States, Phase III

Project Proposal Abstract:

Knowing the amount of biomass and other fuel characteristics across a landscape is becoming increasingly important to fire managers as new fuel and fire management decision support systems come on line, Often, few fuel characteristic data are available to the extent, or resolution needed for the new and more sophisticated models. A simple, easy method for quantifying existing fuel properties for landscapes of the United States is needed, The objective of this research proposal is to compile a sequence of single and stereo photographs with accompanying vegetation and fuels characterization data that will provide a quick and easy means for quantifying and describing existing fuel properties for a minimum of 6 new natural fuel types not previously attempted because of funding and time limits. The 6 fuel types will be selected from the 12 fuelbed types recommended for photo series development determined from informal assessments and 6 regional fuels workshops lead by the Pacific Northwest Research Station's Fire and Environmental Research Applications Group (FERA). In the selection process, we will give greater emphasis to the northeast fuel types. The 12 fuelbeds include: (1) red spruce/balsam fir (northeast), (2) northern mixed hardwoods (northeast); (3) mixed hardwoods (cut-over woodlots), and (4) pitch pine/pine barrens (northeast); (5) sand hill pines part II (southeast) (6) interior chaparral (southwest); (7) mature Douglas-fir/hemlock (west coast); (8) evergreen oak savanna (southwest); (9) ponderosa pine (interior west); (10) tanoak (Pacific Northwest and California), (11) three invasive grass or shrub species (interior west), and (12) western riparian areas. The fuel types selected will be important for fire risk and hazard appraisal in the United States. The photo series project will use methods similarly employed in previous photo series development. Twin Hasselblad cameras will be used to photograph the sites and appropriate fuels inventory methods determined from the literature will be used to quanti the fuels data, This photo series will be a scientifically based support tool that can be used to improve fire management decision processes (RFP-200 I - I, task 7).

Principal Investigator:

Roger D. Ottmar

Agency/Organization:

Forest Service

Branch or Dept:

PNW-Seattle-Managing Natural Disturbances

Other Project Collaborators

Type	Name	Agency/Organization	Branch or Dept
Co-Principal Investigator	John K. Hiers	Tall Timbers Research Station
Collaborator/Contributor	Alison C. Dibble	Forest Service	NRS-Northern Research Station
Collaborator/Contributor	David W. Crary	NPS-National Park Service	Cape Cod National Seashore
Collaborator/Contributor	Doug Jones	NPS-National Park Service	Acadia National Park
Collaborator/Contributor	John L. Hom	Forest Service	NRS-Northern Research Station
Collaborator/Contributor	Richard Vollick	FWS-Fish and Wildlife Service	Sunkhaze Meadows NWR
Collaborator/Contributor	Robert E. Vihnanek	Forest Service	PNW-Seattle-Managing Natural Disturbances
Collaborator/Contributor	Sally M. Haase	Forest Service	PSW-Forest Fire Lab-Riverside
Collaborator/Contributor	Thomas Phillips	Forest Service	Green Mountain NF-Manchester Ranger Station
Collaborator/Contributor	William A. Patterson III	University of Massachusetts	Department of Environmental Conservation
Federal Cooperator	Roger D. Ottmar	Forest Service	PNW-Seattle-Managing Natural Disturbances

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How to Use the Photo and Emission Production Exercises-Instructions to the Instructor (Unit 8B)	View
RX-410 Photo Series Training Package	View
Poster Abstract-Stereo Photo Series for Quantifying Natural Fuels in the Americas	View
Sand Hill, Sand Pine Scrub, and Hardwoods with White Pine Types in the Southeast United States (One photo series volume)	View
Four presentations at various conferences and seminars.	View
Ten poster presentations and published abstracts.	View
35 photo series presentation and exercises at RX 410 (Smoke management), RX 300, (Burn Boss), and RX 310 (Fire Effects) national and regional training sessions.	View
A General Technical Report or research paper describing the inventory and photographic methodologies and how to use the photo series.	View
Stereo Photo Series for Quantifying Natural Fuels; Volume VIa: Sand Hill, Sand Pine Scrub, and Hardwoods With White Pine Types in the Southest United States	View
Stereo Photo Series for Quantifying Natural Fuels; Volume VII: Oregon White Oak, California Deciduous Oak, and Mixed-Conifer with Shrub Types in the Western United States	View
2003 Workshop Proceedings Using Fire to Control Invasive Plants: What’s New, What Works in the Northeast?	View
Second International Wildland Fire Ecology and Fire Management Congress and Fifth Symposium on Fire and Forest Meteorology	View
2003 Joint Regional Conference; Society for Ecological Restoration Northwest Chapter	View

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