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SE FireMap - Technical Oversight Team
This is a private workspace for the SE FireMap Technical Oversight Team (Team), an advisory body to the current project funder, the Natural Resources Conservation Service, as well as its cooperative agreement partner the Endowment for Forestry and Communities and subawardee the Longleaf Alliance (these three collectively known as the Project Managers). In August 2019, applicants to the Team were solicited from partners and experts across the Southeastern U.S. Based on application forms and input from stakeholders, members were selected from among applicants responding to a Statement of Interest circulated by the Endowment for Forestry and Communities. The selected members possess relevant technical skills and experience, as well as networking capacity in the fire science community throughout the U.S., to support the SE FireMap project and ensure its success. Photo credit: John McGuire
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Succession
The succession of woody plants in bog turtle habitat
Partners
(public) (Jess – can you contact each and ask what they want us to post here – or we can just link to their websites if that’s better? Might be nice to explain the role of each here though) Quail Forever NBCI The Center for Native Grassland Management, UT Tall Timbers Jones Center at Ichauway
NRCS Conservation Practices and Materials
Conservation practice standards, wildlife habitat evaluation guide (WHEG), etc.
Information Materials
 
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2020.10.15 Scoping Report Feedback & Questions
 
2020.10.15 Scoping Report Feedback/Comment/Questions
 
Scoping Feedback & Recommendations
Space to capture general TOT feedback and recommendations relating to the SEFireMap scoping process. This could include current and new tech/projects recommended for review, meetings and webinar discussion points, outreach guidance, etc.
2020.10.06 Scoping Webinar Discussion
 
2020.10.06 Scoping Webinar Discussion
Please utilize this forum space to capture your feedback/comments stemming from our October 6th Scoping Webinar. Here is a link to the associated meeting recording and slides. If you have any questions or issues, let me know and I can walk you through how to comment, link, upload documents, etc. Lucas@longleafalliance.org -  850-776-7288
Regional Fire Mapping
Regional fire maps generally offer improved resolution over national products and can provide a variety of information such as fire history, fire type, topography, fuels/habitat condition, and more. In the Southern region, the "SE FireMap" is an exciting new project under development - intended to serve as a cohesive system to track both prescribed fire and wildfire activity on public and private lands.
Land managers learn about duff moisture
Land managers learn about duff moisture during a wildland fire workshop in North Carolina. Credit: Jennifer Fawcett
Prescribed Burning Multimedia
We'll be storing images and non-training videos here to be shared. Any content posted here is free from copyright infringement concerns and can be shared for educational or other purposes including to create brochures, slide presentations, webinars, etc. Training videos can be found under the Training tab on Wildland Fire.
Prescribed Burning Multimedia
 
General Scoping Recommendations/Discussion
 
Re: General Scoping Recommendations/Discussion
Although I couldn't attend the meeting, I did watch the entirety of the presentation.  I wanted to thank Joe and Eli for such a great presentation!  I also wanted to provide some more questions that I have after watching the presentation and the follow-up question/answer session: 1) Would it be helpful to start classifying the fire detections by the ecosystem type in which they encompass?  If you're doing the entire SE, you could consider using LANDFIRE or NLCD.  Ultimately you would want to decide how narrowly that you want to subdivide vegetation into categories.  If you're just interested in doing this for Florida, you could consider FNAI. The reason that I make this suggestion, is because you'll probably find that some vegetation types are accurately defined by remote products (e.g. BA), while others are not.  In my experience, the upland vegetation types are generally easier to map fire than the wetlands.  Inherent problems with changes in water levels affect remote sensing products. 2) I think that it might make sense to subdivide the area of interests by equally sized grids or property boundaries to determine where the remote sensing products work and where they don't.  I really liked Todd's suggestion about considering managed areas like TTRS as units in which you could then monitor for fire activity. 3) If it's determined that some kind of burn severity products are required as part of the output, you should consider converting differenced Normalized Burned Ratio (dNBR) products to Composite Burn Index.  CBI data was been compiled for the conterminous U.S. and Sean Parks has subsequently created a Google Earth Engine workflow to use Random Forest to calculate CBI (see https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/10/6/879/htm).  Additionally I have been developing regression equations based on different scales/vegetation products that could be used.  These equations could be implemented in GEE as well and I have already implemented them to convert MTBS dNBR products to CBI. 4) The "scale" of the project really needs to be taken into account.  What is the minimum mapping unit?  At what scale is accuracy assessed?  All of the remote sensing products that are being assessed inherently have different scales at which they're accurate.  Product scale and accuracy need to be taken into account for the scoping of this project. 5) At some point in the scoping it might be nice to determine what the options are for processing and subsequently serving data.  Admittedly, these would just be suggestions.  Whoever ends up subsequently doing the work would decide how to proceed.  At least there would be some already researched options available. 6) Could past fire perimeters somehow be used to help map future?  Many areas in the Southeast are burned in specific burn units on a specific time interval (e.g. 2 years).  If we use a product like the BA product to intersect where areas burn over a specific amount of time, it might be possible to estimate where these burns typically occur and on what interval.  You could then "forecast" where burns will likely happen.  These forecasts could be potentially tied to specific burn permits so you know essentially "who burns where". 7) What steps could be taken to get private landowners "buy in" for potentially participating in the tracking of burned areas?  Maybe it's framed like "if we monitor burned areas we can help determine where hazards might exist for your property".  Or, it could be framed as "we produce these products that can help you with your management of your lands".  Some landowners will likely have potential issues with being monitored.  But, if you can frame it as "we're giving you something that you can use to better manage your lands" it might help. 8) At the end of the day the data "products" that could be produced should be examined.  Depending on your audience, you'll want to range between simple (e.g. summaries, pdfs, kmzs) and actual geospatial data products.  If these products are planned well for different users, you might get more buy-in from private land-owners.  I really think that TTRS is positioned well to be able to "sell" the idea of how this work can lead to better management outcomes, while maintaining landowner privacy.      
USDA Launches Strategy to Continue Conserving the Gopher Tortoise and its Critical Habitat
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) has released its new 5-year plan to conserve the Southeast’s threatened gopher tortoise by focusing on the conservation and restoration of its key habitat, the longleaf pine forests. Acting NRCS Chief Kevin Norton told Southeast AgNet the fate of the gopher tortoise is linked to habitat quality, and efforts to conserve habitat on private lands will be critical to its continued survival.