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Type: Report
Contributor(s): US Forest Service; US Department of the Interior; The Nature Conservancy
Publication Date: 2009

The Landscape Fire and Resource Management Planning Tools Project-LANDFIRE-is a multipartner project designed to produce a consistent suite of standardized, multi-scale spatial data layers and models. The maps and data describe vegetation and wildland fuel and fire regimes across the United States, and are designed to facilitate national and regional level strategic planning and reporting of wildland fire management activities. Not only is this collaboration a rarity, the LANDFIRE data are unique. Products include more than twenty 30-meter raster spatial layers of vegetation structure and composition, fire behavior, fire effects, fire regimes and dynamic vegetation models for all major ecosystems in the United States. With these products in hand, federal, state and private organizations have data that can be used to ask and answer important questions, test hypotheses, utilize current science and expert opinion and run alternative scenarios that can support broadscale strategic planning and land management decisions.

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Citation: USDA Forest Service; Department of the Interior; The Nature Conservancy (collaborators). 2009. The LANDFIRE project: supporting fire and land management across the nation. 14 p.

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Topics:
Fire Behavior    Fire Effects    Fuels    Mapping    Models    Planning
Regions:
Alaska    California    Eastern    Great Basin    Hawaii    Northern Rockies    Northwest    Rocky Mountain    Southern    Southwest    National
Keywords:
  • land management
  • LANDFIRE
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Record Maintained By: FRAMES Staff (https://www.frames.gov/contact)
FRAMES Record Number: 8442