The Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP) was established in 1998 to provide wildland fire and fuels information and tools to specialists and managers, helping them to make the best possible decisions and develop sound, scientifically valid plans. Promoting research is the primary strategy for accomplishing this mission. JFSP solicits research proposals for projects that are designed to solve specific problems. Recognizing that there is a need to distill and distribute the large amount of science being produced by JFSP projects, the Pacific Northwest Research Station has developed brief and concise descriptions of various completed JFSP projects. The summaries were compiled by a science delivery specialist who attempted to review each project from a management planning perspective. The purpose of the review is to capture the highlights of the project from a “clients” point of view, focusing on the problem addressed, methods, key findings, deliverables, and science and technology transfer.

Thanks to Jaime Barbour, David Seesholtz, Heather Erickson, and Jennifer Duerr of the Pacific Northwest Research Station for making these available to Advances in Fire Practice. Feel free to download any of the summaries in the table below. All of the documents are in Word format and may include links to project websites and publications. Using the focus areas of JFSP, summaries are divided into the following categories. Clink on link to go directly to that category. 

Air Quality, Smoke Management, And Climate
Investigators	Project Title
Hostetler, Bartlein, Solomon, & Ferguson	Climatic Controls of Fire in the Western United States: From the Atmosphere to Ecosystems
Peterson, Agee, Hessl, & Lehmkuhl	Fire and Climatic Variability In The Inland Pacific Northwest: Integrating Science and Management.
Bytnerowicz & Arbaugh	Improving Model Estimates of Smoke Contributions to Regional Haze Using Low-cost Sampler Systems.
Hostetler, Bartlein, Solomon, & Ferguson	Climatic Controls of Fire in the Western United States: From the Atmosphere to Ecosystems
Demonstration Sites, Administrative Studies, and Local Need
Investigators	Project Title
Skinner, Stephens, & Wilbanks	Jeffery Pine-Mixed Conifer Fire History and Forest Structure With and Without Fire Suppression and Harvesting.
Floyd-Hanna	Weed Invasions Following Fire in Southwestern Colorado: Long-Term Effectiveness of Mitigation Treatments and Future Predictions
North & Williamson	Demonstrating the ecological effects of mechanical thinning and prescribed fire on mixed-conifer forests.
Chambers	A Demonstration Area on Ecosystem Response to Watershed-Scale Burns in Great Basin Pinyon-Juniper Woodlands
Gray	Tree regeneration response to fire restoration in mixed-conifer forest.
Grissino-Mayer & Jenkins	Changes in Fire Regimes and the Successional Status of Table Mountain Pine (Pinus pungens Lamb.) in the Southern Appalachians
Link	Management of fuel loading in the shrub-steppe
Keeley	Pre-Fuel Manipulation Impacts on Alien Plant Invasion of Wildlands
Chambers, Tausch, Blank, & Fleishman	Effects of Fire and Rehabilitation Seeding on Sage Grouse Habitat in the Pinyon-Juniper Zone.
Thies, Niwa, & Kerns	Effect of Season and Interval of Prescribed Burns in a Ponderosa Pine Ecosystem.
Murray	Fire Knowledge for Managing Cascadian Whitebark Pine Forests.
Beyers & Narog	Fire Effects on Rare Flora and Fauna in Southern California National Forests.
Truex & Zielinski	Implications of Fire and Fire Surrogate Treatments on Habitat for Fisher in the Sierra Nevada.
Hood & Harrington	Prescribed Burning to Protect Large Diameter Pine Trees from Wildfire – Can We Do It Without Killing the Trees We’re Trying to Save?
Loh, Kaufman, Hughes, Tunison, & Ainsworth	Relationships of an Alien Plant, Fuel Dynamics, Fire Weather, and Unprecedented Wildfires in Hawaiian Rain Forests: Implications for Fire Management at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park.
Fire And Fuel Treatment Effects
Investigators	Project Title
Chambers	Sagebrush Steppe and Pinyon Juniper Ecosystems: Effects of Changing Fire Regimes, Increased Fuel Loads, and Invasive Species.
Ottmar & Vihnanek	Photo Series for Major Natural Fuel Types of the United States – Phase II.
Ottmar & Vihnanek	Photo Series for Major Natural Fuel Types of the United States – Phase III.
Ottmar	Application of a Fuel Characterization System for Major Fuel Types of the United States and Alaska
Hiers, Wade, Gordon, & Mitchell	Duff Consumption and Southern Pine Mortality.
Miller & Parsons	Can Wildland Fire Use Restore Natural Fire Regimes in Wilderness and Other Unroaded Lands?
Rupp, Mann, & Jandt	Development of a computer model for management of fuels, human-fire interactions, and wildland fire in the Boreal Forest of Alaska.
Omi	Spatial interactions Among Fuels, Wildfire, and Non-native plants
Brownlie, Fox, & Provencher	Consequences and Correlates of Fire in Wetlands.
Fuhlendorf, Nofziger, & Bidwell	Patch Burning on Grasslands: Effects on Fuels, Fire Behavior and Fire Spread.
Overby, Hart, & Bailey	Ecosystem Responses to a High-Severity Wildfire: a Serendipitous Opportunity to Enhance the Fire/Fire Surrogate Study.
Fulé & Laughlin	Fire Use Over a Southwestern Elevational Gradient: Effects of 2003 Fires.
Rideout, Loomis, & Omi	Assessing Values at Risk in the United States from Wildland Fire.
Waldrop	Stand Replacement Prescribed Burning for Fuel Reduction and Regeneration of Table Mountain/Pitch Pine Stands in the Southern Appalachian Mountains.
Bury & Major	Fuels Management and Wildlife Habitat: Quantity and Quality Relationships
Omi	Fire Regimes and Fuel Treatments: A Synthesis with Manager Feedback.
Fulé, Moore, Covington, Heinlein, & Spotskey.	Multi-century Fire Modeling Over Landscape Gradients
Reinhardt, Keane, Scott, & Brown	Quantification of Canopy Fuels in Conifer Forests.
Omi & Martinson	Effect of fuel treatments on wildfire severity.
Outcalt	The value of fuel management in reducing wildfire damage to overstory trees.
Fire and Invasive Plant Species
Investigators	Project Title
Ryan & Kapler Smith	Invasive Plant and Fire Interactions: Use of the Fire Effects Information System to Provide Information for Managers.
Dibble & Patterson	Fire Management Options to Control Woody Invasive Plants in the Northeastern and the Mid-Atlantic U.S.
Planning and Preparedness
Investigators	Project Title
Ferguson, Goodrick, Bradshaw, & Werth	Assessing the value of mesoscale models in predicting fire danger
Rorig, Ferguson, Werth, Goodrick	Predicting Lightning Risk.
Dixon, Crookston, Reinhardt, & Johnson.	Fire and Fuels Extension to the Forest Vegetation Simulator: Completion of Calibration for Eastern Forests, Provisions for User Training, and Program Maintenance.
MacGregor & Reyna	Decision Support Methods for Prescribed Fire.
Andrews	Fire Modeling for Fuel and Smoke Assessment.
Omi	Incorporation of wildland fuels information into landscape-scale land use and planning processes.
Remote Sensing
Investigators	Project Title
Keane, Lutes, Caratti, Key, Benson, & Gangi.	Monitoring Fire Effects at Multiple Scales: Integrating Standardized Field Data Collection with Remote Sensing to Assess Fire Effects.
Ohmann, Wimberly, & Fried	A Novel Approach to Regional Fuel Mapping: Linking Inventory Plots with Satellite Imagery and GIS Databases Using the Gradient Nearest Neighbor Method.
Bobbe & Finco	Field Measurements for the Training and Validation of Burn Severity Maps From Spaceborne, Remotely Sensed Imagery.
Robichaud, Maus, & Parenti	Evaluating High Resolution Hyperspectral Images for Determining Postfire Burn Severity.
Social and Economic Impacts
Investigators	Project Title
Lowell, Rummer, Becker, & Larson	In-woods Decision Making of Utilization Opportunities to Lower Costs of Fire Hazard Reduction Treatments.
Bowker, Lim, Cordell, Green, Rideout-Hanzak, Johnson, & Betz.	A Social Assessment of Public Knowledge, Attitudes, and Values Related to Wildland Fire, Fire Risk, and Fire Recovery.
Shindler, Stankey, & Starkey	Evaluating Communication Strategies and Local Partnerships: Methods for Reducing Fuels, Sharing Responsibility, and Building Trust.
Williams & Jakes	Community Wildfire Protection Plans: Enhancing Collaboration and Building Social Capacity.
González-Cabán, Rideout, & Loomis	A Survey of Public Attitudes and Behavior toward Fuel Treatment Policies: The 1998 Florida Fire Complex.
Starkey & Shindler	Evaluating Public Responses to Wildland Fuels Management: Factors that Influence Acceptance of Practices and Decision Processes.
Science and Technology Applications
Investigators	Project Title
Peterson, Pollock, & Kopper	A Regional Information Node for Fire Science in the Pacific Northwest
Workshops and Symposia
Investigators	Project Title
Peterson, Irwin, & Holmberg	Assessing the Risk of Decision Making Related to Uncharacteristic Wildfires: A 2003 Symposium.
Agee, Peterson, & Decker	Symposium on Mixed Severity Fire Regimes: Ecology and Management.
Keane	Mapping Fuels Using Remote Sensing and Biophysical Modeling.