Fire Monitoring Handbook
USDI National Park Service. 2003. Fire Monitoring Handbook. Boise, ID
The fire monitoring program described in this Fire Monitoring Handbook (FMH) allows the National Park Service to document basic information, to detect trends, and to ensure that each park meets its fire and resource management objectives. From identified trends, park staff can articulate concerns, develop hypotheses, and identify specific research studies to develop solutions to problems. This handbook is intended to facilitate and standardize monitoring for National Park Service units that are subject to burning by wildland or prescribed fire. This handbook defines and establishes levels of monitoring activity relative to fire and resource management objectives and fire management strategies. At each successive level, monitoring is more extensive and complex. level 1 covers environmental monitoring, and levels 2, 3, and 4 call for monitoring of fire conditions, short-term change, and long-term change, respectively. The levels are cumulative, requiring users to include all levels below the highest specified.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- USDI National Park Service
- Date of Issue
- 2003
- Units
- FIRE , NETN
- Keywords
- Adaptive management, FIRE, Fire Behavior, fire monitoring, Management, Monitoring, Objective Development, Prescribed Fire, Sampling, Sampling Design, Vegetation Monitoring, Wildland Fire
- Subjects
- Ecological Framework: Landscapes | Fire and Fuel Dynamics | Fire and Fuel Dynamics