Application Projects

In order to refine and test LANDFIRE data in real-world situations, several landscape-scale, multi-partner application projects have been at work on the ground across the United States.  Application projects provide feedback to the LANDFIRE team on the usefulness and accuracy of its products to landscape-level applications, and form a foundation for testing the utility of LANDFIRE data for monitoring ground-based accomplishments at landscape scales through time. The products tested by application projects include reference models and biophysical settings, existing vegetation and historical fire regime maps.

With the first five years of the LANDFIRE Project completed, each of the regional sites is writing a detailed report on its findings. Please check back for information from leaders of the following projects:

• Central Washington Project, Washington
• Upper Deschutes Basin, Oregon
• Wassuk Range, Nevada
• Loess Hills, Iowa
• Muskrat Lakes/Two Hearted River, Michigan
• Bayou Ranger District, Arkansas
• Onslow Bight, North Carolina
• Wekiva-Ocala-Okefenokee areas, Florida and Georgia
• Southwest Grasslands and Savannas, New Mexico
• Denali National Park, Alaska

Over the long-term, application project data will be updated as fuels treatments are implemented, monitored for changes in Fire Regime Condition Class, and used as demonstrations of the utility of LANDFIRE data for diverse, real-world, landscape-level applications.

On-the-ground case study reports

Specific case studies show how LANDFIRE is being used in the field. Click on any of the following to learn more.

• Enhanced CAP for the Bodie Hills -- Bureau of Land Management forms cooperativie to develop a Conservation Action Plan for approximately 200,000 acres in California's Bodie Hills and the northern Mono Basin.
• Vegetation models in Northern Arizona -- vegetation models used to evaluate the ecological sustainability of ponderosa pine forests
• Hiawatha National Forest and USDA Forest Service Climate Change -- addressing climate change and prioritizing ecological restoration needs
• Signal Peak, New Mexico landscape assessment -- stakeholders discuss landscape scale assessment in the Gila National Forest
• Forest Restoration in Oregon -- suppression of wildland fire, along with widespread livestock grazing and logging, have altered the characteristics of most ecosystems in Oregon
• Idaho, Oregon and Nevada Sage Brush Cooperative -- LANDFIRE project provides the only dataset of vegetation conditions for a project area in the sage-steppe habitat
• Onslow Bite data assessment -- major results of an evaluation of LANDFIRE data in this landscape.
• China: international application of LANDFIRE data
• Mongolia: international application of LANDFIRE data
• Nevada identifies conservation strategies -- scientists need consistent, statewide information on landscape-scale ecological health
• Ranking conservation areas in Michigan -- assessment designed to help prioritize fire management strategies to guide the development of a Fire Needs Assessment
• PowerPoint overview of LANDFIRE applications -- an outline of the unique characteristics of LANDFIE products
• TNC-LANDFIRE general applications

Look for information on more data applications

THIS SECTION IS UNDER CONSTRUCTION. PLEASE CHECK BACK IN EARLY SPRING 2010 FOR  MORE DETAILS. IN THE MEANTIME, join the community at WiserEarth to view the TNC-LANDFIRE home page and navigate to "From the Field: Real World Application Stories" for the most current, downloadable reports. Posted there are reports about Northern Arizona, Oregon, Idaho, Washington, Nevada and Michigan and a look at international connections in China and Mongolia. See also www.landfire.gov.

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This page was last updated 1 March 2010.