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Fire and Fuels Extension to the Forest Vegetation Simulator
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The Fire and Fuels Extension to the Forest Vegetation
Simulator is a collaborative effort between:
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With technical assistance from the:
Long term support provided by the:
Funding provided by the:
The Fire and Fuels Extension to the Forest Vegetation Simulator
(FFE-FVS) links the existing FVS, models that represent fire and
fire-effects, with newly developed fuels dynamics and crowning submodels.
The overall model is currently calibrated for northern Idaho, western
Montana, and northeastern Washington. We are funded to extend the
geographic range of the model to cover most of the forested land
in the western United States.
The model is available through the
Forest Management Service Center's FVS page. (Note
that a major update was done in May 2002.)
The Suppose
graphical user interface to FVS supports the use of FFE-FVS.
Documentation of the model includes the following:
Our development plans are evident from our funded research
and development proposal that covers the period from October
1999 to September 2002.
The needs for FFE-FVS, and, to a large extent, our development plans, were based on the feedback received at a workshop held
in Seattle, February 1999. See the report documenting that workshop:
"Decision Support Needs of JFSP Stakeholders and the Role of the Fire and Fuel Extension to FVS" (version 4 PDF format).
A paper titled
"Relationships Between Models Used to Analyze Fire and Fuel Management Alternatives" (version 4 PDF format), presented at
Joint Fire Sciences Workshop held in Boise ID, June 1999, is largely based on the results of the Seattle workshop.
Contacts regarding this system should be addressed to:
- Elizabeth Reinhardt, at the Intermountain Fire Sciences Laboratory,
Missoula, MT,
or
- Nicholas Crookston, at the Forestry Sciences Laboratory, Moscow,
ID.
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