 The National Interagency Fuels, Fire, and Vegetation Technology Transfer Team
(NIFTT) is sponsored by the National
Interagency Fuels Coordination Group (NIFCG).
NIFCG was established under the guidance and direction of the Fire Directors of
the Bureau of Land Management, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, the National Park
Service, USDA Forest Service, and the Fish and Wildlife Service; the Chief of
the Forest Service, and the Directors of the named Department of the Interior
(DOI) Bureaus and the Deputy Commissioner of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. NIFTT will assist the NIFCG in fulfilling its
purpose of developing and implementing an effective interagency fuels management
program to address risks related to severe fires in wildland urban interface
communities and to restore healthy ecological systems in other wildland areas.
Specifically, NIFTT is sponsored by NIFCG to coordinate, develop, and
transfer consistent, efficient, science-based fuel and fire ecology assessment tools
and trainings. Examples of this effort include coordinating product
implementation and associated technology transfer of both LANDFIRE data and
applications and those of the Fire Regime Condition Class Guidebook as well as coordinating
research results from USDA Forest Service, Department of Interior, and Joint
Fire Science program, among others. Core team members include agency, TNC, and
private consultant fire and landscape ecologists; software developers; project
coordinators; and support staff. The team is currently focusing on the
technology development and transfer components of the LANDFIRE National Project
(see www.landfire.gov), refreshing
LANDFIRE data from circa 2000 to current status, and providing application
tools and online training (www.niftt.gov).
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