FIREMON: Fire Effects Monitoring and Inventory Protocol

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS

Duncan Lutes, Ecologist (FS), Bob Keane, Deputy Program Manager, Fire, Fuel, and Smoke Science (FFS); Research Ecologist; Director, Fire Modeling Institute (FMI); John Caratti (SEM), Nate Benson (NPS), Carl Key (USGS), Steve Sutherland (FS)

INTRODUCTION

FIREMON: Fire Effects Monitoring and Inventory System is an agency independent plot level sampling system designed to characterize changes in ecosystem attributes over time. The system consists of a sampling strategy manual, standardized sampling methods, field forms, Access database, and a data analysis program. FIREMON is a desktop application created for computers running Windows 98, ME, 2000 or XP operating systems.

GOALS AND OBJECTIVES

Assist managers in accomplishing monitoring activities.

KEY RESULTS

Five training workshops, Currently used by FS, BLM, BIA, FWS, and DoD

FUNDING ORGANIZATIONS

FIREMON development was sponsored by the Joint Fire Science Program.

Additional funding provided by the U.S. Forest Service, National Park Service and U.S. Geological Survey.

PUBLICATIONS AND PRODUCTS

Lutes, Duncan C.; Keane, Robert E.; Caratti, John F.; Key, Carl H.; Benson, Nathan C.; Sutherland, Steve; Gangi, Larry J. 2006. FIREMON: The fire effects monitoring and inventory system. Gen. Tech. Rep. RMRS-GTR-164-CD. Fort Collins, CO. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 1 CD.

Lutes, Duncan C.; Keane, Robert E.; Caratti, John F.; Key, Carl H.; Benson, Nathan C.; Sutherland, Steve; Gangi, Larry J. 2003. FIREMON: fire effects monitoring and inventory system. In: Second international wildland fire ecology and fire management congress and fifth symposium on fire and forest meteorology; 2003 November 16–20; Orlando, FL. Boston, MA: American Meteorological Society. 7B.1. 8 p. Available: . [September 12, 2006].

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