Network scale fire atlas supports land management in national parks
Leis SA. 2022. Network scale fire atlas supports land management in national parks. Natural Resource Report. NPS/HTLN/NRR—2022/2480. National Park Service. Fort Collins, Colorado. https://doi.org/10.36967/2295133
Long-term vegetation monitoring allows land managers to make treatment decisions based on data. Fire management is a commonly used approach to managing grasslands, but fire history in grasslands is challenging to record because of spatial and temporal scales and rapid ecosystem recovery. We built a seven-park fire occurrence record (fire atlas) using a geodatabase tool. Multiple sources for fire perimeters were vetted using a verification and editing process. The fire occurrence geodatabase was then used as the basis for an analysis that used buffering around monitoring site locations to determine burned status through time. The resulting products were beneficial for communicating with managers, administrators, and fire staff. Planning and education projects were also important uses of the information. Future efforts will focus on improving attribute consistency and relating vegetation trends to fire occurrence.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Leis, Sherry
- Date of Issue
- 2022-11
- Publisher
- National Park Service
- DOI
- 10.36967/2295133
- Units
- ARPO , BUFF , CUVA , EFMO , GWCA , HEHO , HOCU , HOME , HOSP , HTLN , LIBO , NRSS , OZAR , PERI , PIPE , TAPR , WICR
- Keywords
- fire atlas, fire ecology, fire history, geodatabase, HTLN, prescribed fire
- Subjects
- Ecological Framework: Landscapes | Fire and Fuel Dynamics | Fire and Fuel Dynamics