Wildfires consume existing forest fuels but also leave behind dead shrubs and trees that become fuel to future wildfires. Harvesting firekilled trees is sometimes proposed as an economical approach for reducing future fuels and wildfire severity....
Fire Effects Portal
Definition: The physical, biological, and ecological impacts of fire on the environment.
(National Wildfire Coordinating Group/Fire Research And Management Exchange System)
The fire effects topic page contains resources and activities related to the study and management of the effect of wildland fire on the environment.
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The ArcBurn project is designed to integrate cultural resources information into fire management decision processes.
The Assessing Burn Severity project is a JFSP-funded project investigating the spatial variability in fire effects and to explore relationships between burn severity and fuels, fire behavior, local weather, and topography.
The BehavePlus fire modeling system is a Windows based computer program that can be used for any fire management application that involves modeling fire behavior and fire effects.
FERGI (Fire-Enhanced Runoff and Gully Initiation Model) is a post fire, erosion prediction utility.
FFI (FEAT/FIREMON Integrated) is a monitoring software tool designed to assist managers with collection, storage and analysis of ecological information.
The Fire and Fire Surrogates Study (FFS) assessed the effects of fire and fire surrogate fuel treatments, specifically, quantifying the costs and ecological consequences of alternative fire and fire surrogate restorative treatments in a number of forest types and conditions across the US.
Fire Effects Monitoring and Inventory Protocol (FIREMON) is an agency independent plot level sampling system designed to characterize changes in ecosystem attributes over time.
The Fire Severity Mapping System Project (FIRESEV) provides fire managers with critical information about the potential ecological effects of wildland fire at multiple levels of thematic, spatial, and temporal detail.
FireWorks is an educational program about the science of wildland fire, designed for students in grades 1-12. The FireWorks program consists of a curriculum and a trunk of materials, including laboratory equipment, specimens, CDs, books, and kits of specialized materials for teachers. Content focuses on the physical science of fire behavior, human influences on fire, and fire ecology.
The Great Plains Fire Science Exchange (GPE) is partnering with FRAMES to provide literature searches on topics such as patch burn-grazing and pyric herbivory.
Researching long term (>10 yrs) response in fuel loads and vegetation composition after large and severe wildfires across five fire-adapted ecosystems in the western US, including Alaska.
Scientists from the USFS Rocky Mountain Research Station and the University of Montana conducted a study in which observed data were used to produce statistical models describing the probability of high severity fire as a function of fuel, topography, climate, and fire weather.
The Southwest Fire Science Consortium is partnering with FRAMES to help fire managers access important fire science information related to the Southwest's top ten fire management science issues.
The vision of the World of Wildland Fire is to provide and connect fire science educators and trainers with scientifically solid and peer-reviewed teaching tools and techniques, using state-of-the-art materials, which will be free and accessible to all.
The USDA Forest Service’s Pacific Northwest/Alaska Regions and USDOI Bureau of Land Management’s Oregon-Washington State Office, Fire, Fuels, and Aviation Division is currently in the process of outreach to assess interest in a for a permanent, full-time GS-0401-12 Fuels Management Specialist position. The duty location for this position may be negotiated post-selection to any Forest Service location (virtual office location) within Region 6 (Oregon or Washington), and the incumbent is expected to travel 50 percent of the time. The outreach notice and reply form are attached; please share this information with those within your network and others you know who are qualified and may be interested.
The incumbent assists the Program Manager in the development, organization and administration of the Region-wide fuels management program. The incumbent provides advice, assistance and direction to Forests to establish appropriate response to wildland fire, and coordinates with Air Quality Specialists to develop and review smoke management and air quality guidelines as they relate to planned and unplanned ignitions. The percentage of time spent on duties included in this position may fluctuate with more emphasis on operations, planning, program management, or training based on workload priorities, emphasis, and needs. Ninety (90) days of experience as a primary/rigorous firefighter or equivalent experience outside federal employment is a basic qualification requirement for this position. If you have further questions about the position, please contact Regional Fuels Program Manager Dana Skelly at 503-351-1738, or by email at dana.skelly[at]usda.gov or dskelly[at]firenet.gov.
This purpose of this outreach notice is to determine an adequate candidate pool, and it is in effect from December 12 through December 26, 2018. If you are interested in this opportunity, please complete the attached outreach response form and return it to amset[at]fs.fed.us. When the outreach notice expires, you may access USAJOBS at www.usajobs.gov for all vacancy announcement information. Those responding to this outreach will receive notice of the vacancy announcement information once available.
The OneUSDA Internship Program offers Federal opportunities to students currently enrolled in qualifying educational programs or institutions. It is a comprehensive developmental program intended to provide students with experience in a dynamic work environment that will enhance their educational goals and shape their career choices. An internship with USDA will involve various components of on-the-job experience, mentorship, and training tailored to the student’s education, experience, and interests.
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Range Technicians work under the supervision and guidance of professional range and natural resource specialists performing a variety of duties related to monitoring range land conditions, managing herds of wild horses and burros, processing allotment transfers, supervising range use by permits, and investigating unauthorized use. Other duties may include weed management and monument inventory. The work is performed outdoors in rugged terrain; to include very steep, wet, muddy, rough, uneven or rocky surfaces; positions require physical exertions, such as, bending, crouching, and stooping, stretching, reaching, or similar activities. Individuals should be capable of working alone, or with other people, during early morning hours, night, or during the day.
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NAFSE will be co-sponsoring a pyrogenic wildlife symposia at the 75th Annual Northeast Fish & Wildlife Conference.
If you know anyone who may be interested in presenting as part of their symposium, please encourage him or her to submit an abstract via the online system and select their symposium as their preferred conference venue.
They are specifically looking for 2 types of talks:
1) Species of Greatest Conservation Need (SGCN) wildlife research in fire-dependent systems of the NE (talks must be SGCN specific since this is the hook for this audience) that are currently receiving Rx fire management.
2) Fire management talks about the logistics (equipment, techniques, strategies, communications, education, social science) and evolving understanding of how to burn in various fuels in the region for wildlife habitat.
Contact Neil Gifford (NAFSE community rep) at ngifford@albanypinebush.org or Inga La Puma (NAFSE Science Communication Director) at inga.lapuma@rutgers.edu for more information or suggestions for presentations.
The University of Idaho seeks a sincere, motivated, and creative individual to apply for an exciting PhD assistantship in Ecosystem Dynamics. The successful candidate will work with Dr. Arjan Meddens to examine the spatial and temporal patterns of ecosystem dynamics across the western United States. You will work on highly relevant research which aims to improve ecosystem resilience to future disturbances across the larger landscape under rapidly changing climate conditions. Since this position is initially funded by a Teaching Assistantship (TA), the candidates' research area is somewhat flexible. Potential research topics include: (1) the dynamics of fire refugia and utilization of fire refugia by plant or animal species, (2) spatial and temporal patterns of bark beetle outbreaks, (3) measuring ecosystem structure at the forest-tundra ecotone, and/or (4) the utilization of high-resolution (UAV) lidar applications for forest measurements. A genuine interest in teaching is required and an interest in societal impacts of disturbances and management applications is highly desired. The position includes approximately 2 years of TA funding with the potential for more RA (Research Assistantship) funding later in the PhD. The successful candidate will be housed in the Department of Natural Resources and Society in the College of Natural Resources, which has great collaborative faculty with expertise in both the social and biophysical sciences.
Requirements: An active interest in teaching with good interpersonal skills as wells as strong quantitative background - as demonstrated by courses taken, programming skills, and GRE scores. Field experience and a well-rounded educational background in ecology, geography, fire science, and natural resource management is desired. The position will begin in the Fall of 2019.
This position has approximately 2 academic year (9 months) Teaching Assistantship funding available with the possibility of more funding in the summer and following the first two years. Annual compensation package is competitive and depends upon experience.
If you like to be considered for the position, please send a letter of interest and a CV to Arjan Meddens (ameddens.@uidaho.edu).
The Fire Effects Information System (FEIS) published two new syntheses: Fire regimes of mountain big sagebrush communities and a Species Review about Pacific ponderosa pine/Columbia ponderosa pine. Each publication is a synthesis of information from several hundred articles and reports and provides the best available science to support management decisions.
- The Fire Regime Synthesis covers historical patterns and contemporary changes in fuels and fire regimes in mountain big sagebrush communities.
- The Species Review covers two varieties of ponderosa pine: Pinus ponderosa var. benthamiana and P. p. var. ponderosa. It includes information about these varieties' distribution and plant communities, botanical and ecological characteristics, regeneration processes, and successional status, in addition to the effects of fire on the species, historical fire regimes in ponderosa pine communities, and considerations for fire management.
The Fire Effects Information System (FEIS) provides "an online collection of reviews of the scientific literature about fire effects on plants and animals and about fire regimes of plant communities in the United States." The staff from FEIS are looking to partner with instructors and academics to develop and update species specific synthesis. Instructors: consider how you could fit FEIS into your next course (students could write factsheets, update species reviews, and more.)
Contact Ilana Abrahamson for more information
Learn more about FEIS from our SFE FEIS factsheet and webinar recording.
We are looking for a postdoctoral research assistant for a three-year position to research the biogeography of grass communities in southern Africa and Madagascar savanna ecosystems. Our goal is to enhance theoretical and quantitative understanding of how drought, fire and grazing interact to shape both the limits of grass species and determine community assembly. This knowledge will help inform regional stakeholders about the best approaches for sus tainable rangeland production in a changing climate, via manipulation of fire and grazing regimes.
We will work with partners in Zambia, Mozambique, Madagascar and South Africa. We will test a new theoretical framework to predict biogeographic patterns in diversity and life history strategies of ground layer plant communities. Work includes a field component quantifying ground layer diversity and plant architectural, leaf and biomass allocation traits, along with experimental research examining hydraulic strategies in grasses.
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