Roger Ottmar Research Forester Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team Pacific Wildland Fire Sciences Laboratory USDA Forest Service Research—PNW Research Station Seattle, Washington Phone: Web: RPO Meeting Austin, Texas February 9, 2005

Fuel Loading Fuel Consumption Emission Factor Emission Production Dispersion/Concentration Black Area Consume 3.0 FEPS Photo series FCCS BlueSky Air Chemistry project (Missoula Fire Lab) Land Managers

Natural Fuels Photo Series Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team Pacific Northwest Research Station Seattle, Washington Website:

Northeast Missouri Breaks Borderlands

Natural Fuels Photo Series Completed Southeast VIa: sand hill, sand pine scrub, and hardwood with white pine types in the Southeast United States with supplemental sites for Volume VI. (PMS 838) Alaska IIA: hardwood with spruce (NFES 2668) Midwest Va: jack pine (NFES 2669) PNW I: mixed conifer; juniper; sage; grass (NFES 2580) Alaska II: black/white spruce (NFES 2581) Rockies III: lodgepole; aspen; gambel oak (NFES 2583) Southwest IV: pinyon/juniper; sage; chaparral (NFES 2584) Midwest V: red/white pine; tall grass; oak/hickory (NFES 2582) Southeast VI: long leaf pine; pocosin; marsh grass (NFES 2585) Hawaii: grass, shrub, woodland, and forest types (PNW-GTR-156) Training package: How to Use Photo Series (Rx 410-Smoke Management) Average 2 volumes per year

Photo Series in Preparation West: Deciduous-evergreen oak/savanna; mixed conifer/brush (January, 2005) Northeast: Mixed hardwoods; pitch pine scrub; red spruce/balsam fir (Late 2005) Southwest borderlands: juniper/mixed oak (2006) Missouri breaks: sage, grass, juniper (2006) Missouri BreaksBorderlandsCaliforniaNortheast

Fuel Loading Fuel Consumption Emission Factor Emission Production Dispersion/Concentration Black Area Consume 3.0 FEPS Photo series FCCS BlueSky Air Chemistry project (Missoula Fire Lab) Land Managers

What is FCCS? Simple to use software tool Comprehensive set of fuelbeds with: – assigned and calculated characteristics – fire potentials Allows customization of fuelbeds Assignment at multi-scales across the United States

Crown Fire Surface Fire Smoldering, Residual Effects Snag Tree Ladder Fuels Canopy Stratum Shrubs Needle Drape Shrub Stratum GraminoidsHerbs Nonwoody Vegetation Stratum Stumps Piles and Jackpots Sound WoodRotten Wood Woody Fuel Stratum Moss Lichen Litter Moss, Lichen, Litter Stratum Duff Ground Fuel Stratum The use of fuelbed strata facilitates the creation of spatial data layers and allows the user to include, combine or exclude as much detail as needed to suit an application. Basal Accumulation Fuelbed Strata and Categories

Select National Fuelbed Review assigned variables of selected fuelbed in FCCS editor Customize fuelbed Calculate fuelbed properties Generate output reports Characteristics by fuelbed strata and category FCCS Fire potentials Information Flow in FCCS Ecoregion Veg. form Structure Cover type Change agent Fire regime Condition class Fuel model crosswalk

Application Use FCCS to develop a set of fuelbeds to represent an area –Select default National Fuelbeds –Customize with inventory data/expert knowledge Assign fuelbeds to landscape Assign fuelbed characteristics and fire potentials at multiple scales

Application-- National Fire Plan Regional Haze Project, EPA Emissions Inventory Fuels Map, and test Forests for Region 6 (McKenzie, Sandberg, and Ottmar)

FCCS Timeline FCCS Release Candidate version—November 16, 2004 FCCS Release Candidate version—November 16, 2004 – 175 National Fuelbeds – Draft user manual and help – Fine tuning fire potentials – Building fuelbeds – Demonstrations in 2005 FCCS final release—May, 2005 FCCS final release—May, 2005 Linkage to Consume 3.0, FOFEM, FETM, FEPS, FASTRACS, FVS, Behave plus, etc Linkage to Consume 3.0, FOFEM, FETM, FEPS, FASTRACS, FVS, Behave plus, etc

Fuel Loading Fuel Consumption Emission Factor Emission Production Dispersion/Concentration Black Area Consume 3.0 FEPS Photo series FCCS BlueSky Air Chemistry project (Missoula Fire Lab) Land Managers

Modification and Validation of Fuel Consumption Modeling Roger Ottmar, David Sandberg, Clint Wright, and Robert Vihnanek Fire and Environmental Research Applications Team Pacific Northwest Research Station Seattle, Washington Website:

Fuel Consumption Project Develop new; modify and improve existing fuel consumption models for fuel types where there is: Limited knowledge Increased wildland fire expected Emphasis on shrubs and boreal forest Emphasis on combustion by fuel stratum/categories Emphasis on smoldering phase Consume 3.0/user manual/training package Objective

Alaska Rapid Response: Forest Floor and Emissions Characterization

Ponderosa Pine/Mixed Conifer Over 40 sites inventoried and burned New forest floor and woody fuel consumption models developed Implementing equations into Consume 3.0

Southern Pine/Hardwoods Over 40 sites inventoried and burned New forest floor and woody fuel consumption models developed Implementing equations into Consume 3.0

Shrublands and Grasslands Over 42 sites inventoried and burned New shrub consumption model being developed. Implementing equations into Consume 3.0

Fuel Consumption Project Sites

What is Consume 3.0? Consume is a software package that models the amount of fuel consumption and emissions of a fire, either wildland or prescribed Builds on an earlier software package, Consume 2.1 but is more user-friendly, more flexible, more accurate, linked to FCCS Not specific to PNW; can be used in all fuel/forest types

Consume 3.0 Release Candidate June 2005

Fuel Loading Fuel Consumption Emission Factor Emission Production Dispersion/Concentration Black Area Consume 3.0 FEPS Photo series FCCS BlueSky Air Chemistry project (Missoula Fire Lab) Land Managers

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What is FEPS? FEPS is a software package that models the amount and rate of consumption and emissions of a fire, either wildland or prescribed Builds on an earlier software package, EPM (Emissions Production Model) but is more user- friendly, more flexible, more accurate Not specific to PNW; can be used in all fuel/forest types