Funding Requests

Each National Initiative is responsible for completing the National Fuels Funding Request annually. Each request will be reviewed collectively by the National Interagency Fuels Coordination Group. Please submit these using the form listed below:

• National Fuels Funding Request Form

National Interagency Fuels Technology Team

The National Interagency Fuels Technology Team (NIFTT) has recently been chartered by the National Interagency Fuels Coordination Group (NIFCG) and includes participation from federal wildland fire agencies and The Nature Conservancy. The NIFTT team will assist the NIFCG in fulfilling its purpose of developing and implementing “an effective, interagency fuels management program to address risks from severe fires in wildland urban interface communities and to restore healthy ecological systems in other wildland areas.”

Link directly to the NIFTT.

LANDFIRE

LANDFIRE is a five-year, multi-partner wildland fire, ecosystem, and wildland fuel mapping project. This project is generating consistent, comprehensive maps and data describing vegetation, fire, and fuel characteristics across the United States. These maps can assist in prioritizing and planning hazardous fuel reduction and ecosystem restoration efforts. The consistent and comprehensive nature of LANDFIRE methods ensures that data will be nationally relevant, while the 30-meter grid resolution assures that data can be locally applicable. LANDFIRE meets agency, partner, and stakeholder needs for data to support landscape fire management planning, prioritization of fuel treatments, collaboration, community and firefighter protection, and effective resource allocation.

Fire Regime Condition Class

Fire Regime Condition Class (FRCC) is an interagency, standardized tool for determining the degree of departure from reference condition vegetation, fuels and disturbance regimes. Assessing FRCC can help guide management objectives and set priorities for treatments.

FIREMON

The FIREMON project's primary objective is to establish a standard Fire Effects Monitoring and Inventory Protocol. Monitoring the effects of wildland fire is critical for: documenting fire effects; assessing ecosystem damage and benefit; evaluating the success or failure of a burn; and appraising the potential for future treatments. Specific objectives for monitoring depend on the type of fire.

National Interagency Prescribed Fire Training Center

The National Interagency Prescribed Fire Training Center (NIPFTC) is a unique program blending maximum field prescribed burning experience with a flexible curriculum of instruction on topics of interest to prescribed fire practitioners. Attendees will have the opportunity to complete portions of the National Wildfire Coordinating Group (NWCG) approved prescribed fire task books under the guidance of invited specialists.

Fire Use Training Academy

The Southwest Fire Use Training Academy (FUTA) is an interagency program uniquely blends classroom and prescribed burning field experience on forests and rangelands throughout the United States. During the 8-week program, participants have the opportunity to complete individual tasks leading to aptitude within the prescribed fire qualification system.

Fire Environment Working Team

The Fire Environment Working Team (FENWT) was formed in 2004 to establish an integrated programmatic approach to the activities that were formerly the responsibility of the NWCG Fire Danger, Fire Weather, and Fire Use Working Teams; and some activities associated with the NWCG Training Working Team (Fire Behavior Committee); and to coordinate with Geographic Center Manager's Predictive Services Group, WFLC's Fire and Air Issues Coordinating Group, and the National Weather Service Corporate Board. The commonality of these groups is that they are focused on measuring and predicting the wildland fire environment.

• Fire Environment Working Team Charter

The Nature Conservancy

There are three overarching objectives within this national initiative agreement between the Department of the Interior (DOI), USDA Forest Service (FS), and the Nature Conservancy (TNC) including the Fire Learning Network, Wildland Fire Education and Wildland Fire Training. For specific information about the goals and actions of these objectives, please contact Ed Brunson, Fire Education Director 208-343-8826 x 12 ebrunson@tnc.org.