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The
establishment, maintenance, and promotion of partnerships
both within and outside the agency are critical to ensuring
long-term NPS fire management program success. The guiding
principles of the NPS Wildland Fire Management Program
Strategic Plan state that "partnerhips with federal,
state, local, and tribal entitities are promoted in
order to achieve the greatest benefits for park resources
and the public" and that it is also important to
"promote interdisciplinary partnerships".
For specific guidance, the NPS fire management reference
manual (RM-18) includes a chapter decidated to interagency
coordination and agreements. Not only are these interagency
relationships and agreements of great importance for
the NPS Fire Ecology Program, but increased coordination
and partnering among various NPS programs will capitalize
on exisiting knowledge, data, and expertise to ensure
the most effective agency programs.
| Interagency Partnerships and Collaboration |
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Fire Program Analysis (FPA) System
The purpose of the Fire Program Analysis (FPA) System is to provide managers with a common interagency process for fire management planning and budgeting to evaluate the effectiveness of alternative fire management strategies through time, to meet land management goals and objectives. FPA will reflect fire objectives and performance measures for the full scope of fire management activities.
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National Burn Severity Mapping Program
The Joint NPS-USGS National Burn Severity Mapping Project addresses the need to quantify fire effects over large, often-remote regions and long time intervals. It reflects collaborative efforts to bring previous research into operational implementation for fire managers and scientists.
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Inventory and Monitoring Program (I&M)
As part of the National Park Service's effort to "improve park management through greater reliance on scientific knowledge," a primary role of the Inventory and Monitoring (I&M) Program is to collect, organize, and make available natural resource data and to contribute to the Service"s institutional knowledge by facilitating the transformation of data into information through analysis, synthesis, and modeling.
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| Other Fire Ecology Partnerships |
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The Nature Conservancy - Fire Learning Networks
Network projects cover more than 75 million acres. Operating at local, regional and national levels, the U.S. Fire Learning Network seeks to overcome barriers to implementing ecologically appropriate fuels reduction and restoration projects.
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The Southeast Fire Ecology Partnership
The Southeast Fire Ecology Partnership promotes training, education, research and collaborative projects in the area of fire ecology, especially in the Southeastern states.
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