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Joint Fire Science Program
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This program continues to advance the Administration’s priorities to to prioritize efforts to reduce climate pollution; support climate resilience; support land conservation and biodiversity efforts, including the 30 by 30 initiative; maximize clean energy development and deployment. This program also provides support under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, Section 40803 Wildfire Risk Reduction. The Joint Fire Science Program encourages interested parties to perform research and studies pertaining to wildland fire and resource management, to enhance decision-making ability of fire, fuels, natural resource, and land managers and others to meet management objectives. This program solicits research and science delivery proposals that respond to its announcements for proposals that seek information on workforce development including Graduate Research Innovation (FRIN), the Fire Science Exchange Network (FSEN), and critical wildland fire and fuels management research needs.
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No current data available. Program accomplishments provided new information and tools to improve decision-making in wildland fire management. Program accomplishments include studies that benefit fire and resource management programs both directly and through the inherently interagency nature of many of the related projects. Projects have had direct benefit to, among others, fire management, Predictive Services, meteorologists, fuels analysts, intelligence officers, fire behavior analysts, fire specialists, fire planners, resource managers and State and local government leaders. Specific accomplishments include social barriers to implement prescribed fires and maintenance and restoration of sagebrush habitat. For the Joint Fire Science Program, the continued support of the regional consortia projects and the Fire and Smoke Model Evaluation Experiment (FASMEE) project.
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JFSP Project 14-2-01-29 Fire-Adapted Communities on the Range: Alternative Models of Wildfire Response. This project contributed new knowledge about a model of community-based fire management that is growing in popularity and increasingly viewed as a crucial, front-line strategy for protecting sage-grouse habitat and the ranching industry (e.g., in state-level sage-grouse conservation efforts and the 2015 Integrated Rangeland Fire Management Strategy). We successfully helped characterize and identify the strengths and weaknesses of the RFPA model such that existing programs may be improved and future programs may benefit from lessons learned. Other community-based fire management strategies are also growing across the country, including prescribed burn councils and associations, and public interest in better wildfire suppression is at an historic high following the 2017 wildfire season. The primary implication for management and practice is that such community-based approaches can offer significant assets to mitigation and suppression efforts, particularly in “working lands” communities, but challenges to the integration of informal and formal organizations must be proactively recognized and managed. Policy makers and managers should also consider how statutory basis, program design, and state agency roles shape community participation and community-agency relationships.
JFSP Project 16-2-01-9 Towards improved quantification and prediction of post-fire recovery in conifers. The benefits of this research include improved quantification of landscape-scale burn severity through biometrics such as net photosynthesis/net primary productivity, and predictive models that will help land managers with prescribed- and wild-fire planning. For example, the data produced from this quantification could serve as the basis for quantitative vulnerability maps for land managers (Smith et al. 2014) by identifying less vigorous stands that may be susceptible to secondary mortality (such as insects and disease). This work builds upon completed and ongoing laboratory research (Sparks et al. 2016, in review), and investigates 5 relationships between increasing doses of fire radiative flux metrics (FRFD, FRED) with growth and physiological metrics including leaf net photosynthesis. This data will provide the foundation for future models of tree mortality and surviving tree vigor. As FRE is strongly correlated with total energy release from a fire (Freeborn et al. 2008), these models could be incorporated with the energy release component (ERC, units: Btu ft-2 ), a National Fire Danger Rating System (NFDRS) output that calculates the potential energy per unit area based on fuel load and live/dead fuel moisture, to help predict future fire effects such as tree mortality. Ultimately, the expected benefits will help address the JFSP “post-fire recovery” topic area by improving: 1) our understanding of physiological changes in trees post-fire based on fire intensity metrics, and 2) our ability to quantify burn severity at landscape scales.
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JFSP funded 32 GRIN projects that support graduate students to enhance interaction with fire and fuels managers. Funded four projects to assess fuel breaks and fuel break systems, and funded three to reduce damages and losses to valued resources. The JFSP funds and provides oversight to a national collaborative of 15 regional wildland fire science exchanges: the Fire Science Exchange Network (FSEN). The FSEN provides the most relevant, current wildland fire science information to federal, state, local, tribal, and private stakeholders within ecologically similar regions. In Fiscal Year 2020 JFSP funded three FSEN projects via cooperative agreement.
JFSP projects are focused on continued support for the Fire Science Exchange Network (FSEN) and we anticipate funding four FSEN projects. The program will continue to fund graduate students through the Graduate Research Innovation (GRIN) program and anticipate funding 12 GRIN projects.
JFSP research is focused on two main research areas. Sources and distribution of human-caused ignitions and their impacts on wildfire and reducing damages and losses to valued resources from wildfire. We anticipate funding five proposals in these two topic areas.
JFSP will be focused on continued support for the Fire Science Exchange Network (FSEN) and the Graduate Research Innovation (GRIN) program. Research focus areas will be longevity of fuel treatment effectiveness under climate change, fuels treatment effectiveness across landscapes, pre-fire management actions for reducing post-fire hazards, and social factors that influence fire suppression and rehabilitation costs.
JFSP will be focused on continued support for the Fire Science Exchange Network (FSEN) and the Graduate Research Innovation
(GRIN) program. Research focus areas will be accelerating science in fire-prone ecosystems, effective fire communication and outreach, prescribed fire effects on water quality and quantity, managing carbon emissions in ecosystems with deep organic soils, Social equity and wildland fire impacts, and characterizing wildland fire risk in wildland-urban interface and urban settings
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Single Audit Applies (2 CFR Part 200 Subpart F):
For additional information on single audit requirements for this program, review the current Compliance Supplement.
OMB is working with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) and agency offices of inspectors general to include links to relevant oversight reports. This section will be updated once this information is made available.
