1. Prescribed Fire Effects Monitoring

2. FSM
Forest Supervisor…responsibility…
Ensuring adequate tracking and monitoring of all prescribed or wildland fire use…

3. Your Text Here Wildland and Prescribed Fire Management Policy
Implementation Procedures Reference Guide
National Park Service
USDA
Forest
Service
Bureau
of Indian
Affairs
U.S. Fish
and Wildlife Service
Bureau of
Land Management
Your Text Here

4. Implementation Guide:
Provisions for post-burn evaluation to enable managers and the agency administrator to determine if project objectives have been met……
In addition to short-term monitoring to document the results of a burn, long-term monitoring is strongly recommended……

5. Why?

6. Forest Plan Implementation
Purpose and Need / Proposed Action
Alternatives
Decision
Implement
Desired and Existing Conditions
Public
Adjust Evaluate Monitor

7. Maslow…… a roadmap for human behavior…

8. Where are we?

9. Where are we?
Where do we want to go?

10. Where are we?
Where do we want to go?
What’s the best way?

11. Where are we?
Where do we want to go?
What’s the best way?
Are we there yet?

12. Forest Plan Implementation
Purpose and Need / Proposed Action
Alternatives
Decision
Implement
Desired and Existing Conditions
Public
Adjust Evaluate Monitor

13. What?

14. Forest Plan Implementation
Purpose and Need / Proposed Action
Alternatives
Decision
Implement
Desired and Existing Conditions
Public
Adjust Evaluate Monitor

15. National Fire Plan “…10-Year……Implementation Plan”
Goal Two – Reduce Hazardous Fuels

16. Fire Threat Assessment Model
Hazard
Risk
Consequences

20. National Fire Plan “…10-Year……Implementation Plan”
Goal Two – Reduce Hazardous Fuels
Goal Three – Restore Fire Adapted Ecosystems

23. Total Monitoring Implementation – according to management direction?
Effectiveness – moving toward desired condition? …intent of S&G’s?
Validation – still where we want to go? …underlying assumptions still valid?