Land management and fire control agencies in California continue to search for effective means of cooperating across institutional boundaries to deal with the public safety and ecological integrity issues posed by wildland fire in California. Early collaborations such as FIRESCOPE, which focussed on coordinated fire suppression, created a cooperative culture which now allows the agencies to work together on fire behavior and fuels, characteristics driven largely by land management decisions. This project has and will 1) conduct interagency discussions to specify collaborative fire and fuels data capture and publication projects, and 2) implement those projects by combining resources from participating agencies.

Scoping

• May 24, 1996 CDF/USFS Workshop on Fire Planning Methodologies: outlines seven possible collaborative efforts focussed on data development, data exchange, assessment, and planning methodologies
  
  
• July 2, 1996 CDF/USFS Workshop on Fire Planning Methodologies: outlines three areas of cooperative within the context of state-wide fuels data
  
  
• November 14-15, 1996 Summary of California Fuels and Hazard Workshop: summary notes of an interagency workshop and a Program of Action for the California Interagency Fuels Group (CAIFG) to develop state-wide fuels data.
  
  
• California Interagency Fuels Group Update: Status of progress in developing methods for state-wide fuels data.

Products

• Scheduling Options for the Coordination of Fuels and Hazard Data Development for CDF Ranger Units and National Forests (July 1996)

FOR MORE INFORMATION

Contact Dave Sapsis via e-mail at Dave.Sapsis@fire.ca.gov or by phone at (916) 445-5369

Last edited on October 23, 2006 by Lauren McNees