Important Notice: Current LANDFIRE materials are located on the Conservation Gateway site in the Fire & Landscapes section. We are currently updating these pages and links. (Posted 4/14/2011)
What is LANDFIRE? LANDFIRE is a collaborative, 5-year partnership involving the USDA Forest Service, Department of the Interior and The Nature Conservancy. Launched in 2004 and designed to be nationally consistent, locally relevant and based on peer-reviewed scientific methods, the project is generating landscape-scale maps and data describing vegetation, fire and fuels characteristics across the United States, including Alaska and Hawaii. These data and models will help agencies and partners better manage ecosystems and protect communities.
For more information on LANDFIRE visit http://www.landfire.gov/
LANDFIRE data for conservation planning and action LANDFIRE National products comprise a set of more than 1,000 vegetation dynamics models and over 20 digital maps of vegetation composition and structure, wildland fuel (crown and surface), estimated historical fire regimes and current departure from estimated historical vegetation conditions. LANDFIRE National procedures integrate relational databases, remote sensing, systems ecology, gradient modeling and landscape simulation to create consistent and comprehensive products that are standardized across the entire U.S. LANDFIRE products are complete for the lower 48 states, and will be complete for Alaska and Hawai’i by the end of 2009.
LANDFIRE data products are free and available online at http://www.landfire.gov/. The most current application case studies can be accessed at http://www.landfire.gov/documents_dataproducts.php and http://tncfire.org/training_landfire_appProjects.htm. Additional LANDFIRE information, FAQs, documents and maps are posted on the public Web site WiserEarth at http://www.wiserearth.org/group/landfire. (You will need to join the WiserEarth web community to join the LANDFIRE group). Download Use of LANDFIRE Products in Conservation Action Planning for recommendations specifically for CAP
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