Management Tools
Management Tools
USGS scientist investigate and develop a variety of tools that can be used for wildland fire management, ranging from on-the-ground land treatments designed to help reduce the spread of wildfires, to predictive tools to help managers better understand the dynamics of fires and the locations where they are most likely to occur.
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Examining Soil and Drought Dynamics to Improve Fire Forecasting in the Southern Great Plains
The need to improve fire weather predictions for the southern Great Plains has grown in recent years, following a number of extreme fire events. While on-the-ground conditions that promote fire development in the region are still not well understood, research suggests that fire-friendly conditions are determined by more than just precipitation amounts or wind speeds. They are also influenced by so
Bandelier National Monument Postwildfire Flood Support
In the summer of 2011, the Las Conchas Fire burned 156,593 acres in the Jemez Mountains in northern NM including the upper watersheds of Frijoles and Capulin Canyons in Bandelier National Monument. The drastic removal of vegetation in the upper watersheds of these popular tourist destinations left them susceptible to dangerous and record breaking floods. As long as the threat of large post...