Return to Wildland Fire
Return to Northern Bobwhite site
Return to Working Lands for Wildlife site
Return to Working Lands for Wildlife site
Return to SE Firemap
Return to the Landscape Partnership Literature Gateway Website
return
return to main site

Skip to content. | Skip to navigation

Sections

Personal tools

You are here: Home

Modified items

All recently modified items, latest first.
Other National Fire Mapping
 
Active Fire Mapping
 
Active Fire Mapping Collection
 
Hellbender Photos- Mike Knoerr
 
A Prophet Of Soil Gets His Moment Of Fame
More than 40 years ago, in Nigeria, a young scientist named Rattan Lal encountered an idea that changed his life — and led, eventually, to global recognition and a worldwide movement to protect the planet's soil.
Fire Mapping
 
Re: General Scoping Recommendations/Discussion
  Hi Everyone, Sorry it has taken me so long to get the scoping report.  I read through the documents.  I like the information the TT team pulled together and they did a great job of highlighting the issues with all available fire data sources.  I have a few comments for the group that I hope are useful. Best wishes, Todd 2020.07.15 - SEFireMap Scoping Report -GR-000000394- - Tall Timbers.pdf Report Narrative: "The overall aim of the Scoping process for the SE FireMap is to develop a robust understanding of the data sources and reporting capabilities that are available for advanced monitoring of prescribed fires on private lands." This is a more narrow scope than the original charter/scoping RFP states "An improved, cohesive system to track both prescribed fire and wildfire activity on public and private lands will serve as a critical decision support tool to maximize the effectiveness of fire management practices – helping achieve the varied objectives of NRCS and its partners such as keeping working lands working, restoring the longleaf pine ecosystem, supporting DoD’s military and training mission, conserving listed and at-risk species, managing for wildfire risk, and minimizing the need to conserve species through regulation." I agree that prescribed fires on private lands are important, but I think the SEFireMap should include all fires on all lands. SE FireMap Scoping INT REP 2.pdf: The Executive Summary here does a better job of capturing the spirit of SEFireMap in the intro paragraph.  It also highlights the problems/gaps with current reporting systems. Background section does a nice job of listing fire history metrics critical for management (e.g. time since fire).  These are things that should be required in the final scope of work. The summary switches to focusing on prescribed fire.  This is a real data gap, but it would be worth identifying which data sources are currently available to monitor wildfires and justification for why SEFireMap doesn't need to focus on wildfires.  For example, does MTBS do an adequate job of tracking wildfires in the SE? The figures provided nice examples of the capabilities of different sensors/datasets to map prescribed burns.  None of them look perfect! I like the examples linking burn permits to different sensors too.  This seems a promising approach, but the uncertainties in the burn permit data will make it difficult to evaluate the effectiveness of any prescribed fire mapping.  Would it be worth considering including in the final scope of work a requirement to assess which burn permits were fulfilled (for a subset of recent permits)?  That would allow statements like "Of the X burn permits issued in 2020, Y% of permits actually resulted in a fire. Of those, Z% were detected by satellites..." We should discuss how much detail we should put into the final scope of work.  Tall Timber's work seems to indicate that there is no perfect data source and developing a method to identify common detection could be most promising.  Incorporating permit data will be critical to attribute the satellite based fire/burned area detection as prescribed fires.  
Partner Engagement & Coordination
 
Re: Partner Engagement & Coordination
RE: July 23rd TOT Meeting Jim Smith Mon, Jul 27, 1:05 PM (1 day ago) I wanted to provide another set of contacts….we have to stop looking at some point but I leave that decision up to you. Tom Spencer, Texas Forest Service: was (and may still be) the lead on the Southern Risk Assessment portal.  tspencer@tfs.tamu.edu Danny Lee, USFS, Lead for the Southern Forest Threat Assessment Center in Asheville.  Danny.c.lee@usda.gov Danny contracts a lot with Jim Fox at UNC Asheville has a lot of “data contacts” around the SE.  jfox@nemacfernleaf.com Jim ---------------------------------------------------------- James L. Smith, Ph.D. TNC LANDFIRE Program Lead 904.327.0055 (cell/office) jim_smith@tnc.org 1822 Swiss Oaks Street St. Johns, FL 32259-9096
Re: General Scoping Recommendations/Discussion
#7/23/2020 Tall Timbers Interim Report Notes # SE FireMap Scoping INT REP 2.pdf How are you spatially assigning active fire detections with burned area products?  This requires a lot of processing, so efficiency is key. How did you tag active fire detections with FFS OBA? FMT code that estimates burn severity breakpoints could be easily re-written for GEE. # Questions for call # Are there any gaps or proposed modifications we should consider? Could TTRS potentially create some kind of a fire probability layer?  This could be done by examining convergence of all fire detections or potentially by assigning probability to the modelling process. How could TTRS improve the fire modeling process? # What do we like and what do we think is missing? I really the like the multi-faceted approach in considering many data sources that TTRS has considered. How does TTRS get around some of the modeling limitations of BA product?  Using their own modeled products? How does TTRS get around the inherent problems with the prescribed fire data records?  Can they start using area burned as a way to narrow down the fire location? # How can TTRS improve the scoping process? Share their proposed processing or actual processing schemas.  It would be nice to see the details.
Fire Liability
Liability means the legal responsibility for one’s acts or omissions. Failure of a person (e.g., landowner or burn boss) to meet those responsibilities leaves them vulnerable to the possibility of a lawsuit.
Wildfire Podcasts
 
Wildfire Podcasts
 
Wildfire Videos
 
Wildfire Videos
 
Wildfire Multimedia
 
Wildfire Multimedia
 
Wildfire Recovery
Recovering from a wildfire can be financially and emotionally complex, particularly if the wildfire was catastrophic and caused significant damage. Research has also shown that already vulnerable groups, such as racial and ethnic minorities, are significantly more vulnerable to the effects of natural disasters, including wildfire, leaving them more in need of assistance.
Community Preparation and Response
Communities play a crucial role in wildfire preparedness and response. While professionals and practitioners can help communities prepare and respond to wildfires, community members ultimately decide what actions they are willing and able to take. Community members are often the best ambassadors of wildfire messaging and these resources will be helpful not only to professionals working to educate and assist communities in wildfire resilience, but to community members doing the same work.
Public Safety
Public safety during and after a wildfire can be challenging, particularly as many people are separated from their usual forms of communication. These resources can help you not only communicate necessary information to the public, but do so in a way that will be useful to them.