Fire Science/Research Related Links
| Atmosphere-Ecosystem
Interactions The Lower Atmosphere Severity Index (often called the Haines Index after retired RWU-4401 meteorologist Donald Haines) describes the above-surface air mass as it affects large and/or erratic wildland fires. LASI is most important when the surface fire danger is high; if LASI is also high, it can lead to explosive conditions. |
| Canadian
Fire Research Network The Fire Research Network (FRN) is one of 10 Science and Technology Research Networks of the Canadian Forest Service (CFS) of Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) |
| Center
for Invasive Plant Management This site contains a wealth of information on invasive weed management and related research, including a number of pages specifically related to the threat of invasive weeds in burned areas. |
| Disturbance
Economics Research Team Research on such topics as the "Economic Effects of Catastrophic Wildfires," and "Quantifying Trade-offs of Alternative Vegetation Management Strategies, Wildfire, and Suppression in Fire Prone Regions of the US." |
| Fire
& Environmental Research Applications Team Fire and Environmental Research Applications (FERA) Team, part of the Managing Natural Disturbance to Sustain Forest Health Program at the Pacific Northwest Research Station. |
| Fires
& Forest Health Congressional Research Service Report for Congress by Ross W. Gorte, natural resources policy specialist. |
| Frostfire A large experimental prescribed burn near Fairbanks. The project is in terrain dominated by permafrost, and focuses on the large-scale ecological consequences of fire. |
| Global
Fire Monitoring This site contains a wealth of information about the science of monitoring wildland fires and their effects on the environment around the world. |
| TNC
Fire Management & Research The Nature Conservancy's National Fire Management Program oversees fire management on TNC preserves nationwide, fosters fire ecology research, and promotes the judicious use of prescribed fire to meet biodiversity conservation needs through publications, information exchange, and fire policy reviews. The Fire Program also provides prescribed fire training for TNC staff and cooperators. |
| Social
Science Research Plan In November, 2000, the NWCG commissioned Dr. Gary Machlis, Visiting Chief Social Scientist for the National Park Service, "to develop an interagency social science research plan for federal wildland fire management." |
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