Projects
Comprehensive list of projects
Current Projects
Some of the projects WFA is currently working on.
Draft Wildland Fire Management Plans and Draft Environmental Assessments for National Wildlife Refuges, Northeast Region, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
Northeast Region
Using an interdisciplinary and interagency approach, Wildland Fire Associates is currently developing Draft Wildland Fire Management Plans (FMP) for 14 National Wildlife Refuges in the Northeast Region of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and drafting Environmental Assessment (EA) for six of those refuges which currently are not NEPA compliant. Wildland Fire Associates is using a recently revised interagency format specified by the ...More
Landscape-Scale Wildland Fire Risk/Hazard/Value Assessment, BLM
Nevada
Wildland Fire Associates is currently conducting 16 landscape-scale wildland fire risk/hazard assessments for all counties within Nevada. A state-wide summary will also be completed at the end of the project (2009). This project entails the use of numerous GIS layers to help determine fuels mitigation priority areas. A GIS decision rule model that included FLAMMAP results, fire regime condition class, fire occurrence data, lightning strike density, ...More
Community Wildfire Protection Plan (CWPP), Hot Sulphur Springs-Parshall Fire District
Hot Sulphur Springs-Parshall Fire District & the Williams Fork Valley, Colorado
WFA has been awarded the contract to develop a CWPP for the Hot Sulphur Springs-Parshall Fire District and the Williams Fork Valley in north-central Colorado. Of primary concern for the community is the dominant lodgepole forest has been decimated by the current Mountain Pine Beetle infestation – with up to 90% mortality in some areas. Local, state, and federal officials and land managers are involved in the overall planning process. GIS technology is playing a large role in the development ...More
Fire Management Plans & NEPA Compliance Documents
WFA has developed fire management plans and NEPA compliance documents for a wide range of clients including the BIA, BLM, NPS, USFWS, and The Nature Conservancy. Plans have ranged in complexity from ones designed for units with full-suppression to areas desiring to use fire to manage lands under multiple jurisdictions.
Environmental Assessment for Fire Management Plan and Wildland Urban Interface Projects, National Park Service
Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area, Georgia
Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area is located in north central Georgia. The park consists of several units scattered through metropolitan Atlanta. Wildland Fire Associates (WFA) developed an analysis for an integrated fire management plan (wildfire and prescribed burning) and fuels management (WUI) program. The purpose of the report was to assess the potential natural and anthropogenic hazards of fire and associated fuels build-up in the urban interface. WFA conducted internal ...More
Eight Fire Management Plans and Supporting Environmental Assessments, Bureau of Indian Affairs
8 Pueblos, New Mexico
This project is an example of Bureau of Indian Affairs fuels and fire management policies expressed in management plans for separate Indian Reservations, all with differing management goals and objectives. This project required consultation not only with agency resource managers, but also with tribal councils and resource staffs. Multiple land management strategies had to be considered when planning long-range fire management programs. ...More
Fire Management Plan, Hazard Fuel Assessment, and Supporting Environmental Assessments, National Park Service
Blue Ridge Parkway, North Carolina and Virginia
Wildland Fire Associates prepared an Environmental Assessment, Fire Management Plan, and Hazard Fuel Assessment for the 464-mile Blue Ridge Parkway under contract with the National Park Service. The Environmental Assessment addresses potential impacts to resources and socioeconomic values in and around the Parkway, and is currently being revised from internal agency review. The proposed wildland fire program strategies include suppression of unwanted wildland fire, hazard fuel reduction projects ...More
Joint Fire Management Plan and Supporting Environmental Assessment, Bureau of Land Management/National Park Service
El Malpais National Monument, New Mexico, Albuquerque Field Office
This Plan and Environmental Assessment is one of the first interagency implementation plans between administrations with differing land management missions. The project included all aspects of plan preparation, Environmental Assessment development in support of the plan, and formats for each, and required new and innovative approaches to satisfying the policy requirements of each agency while addressing all resource, wildland fire, and protection objectives. ...More
Joint Fire Management Plan and Supporting Environmental Assessment, U.S Forest Service / National Park Service
Flathead National Forest, Glacier National Park, Montana
This project included an Environmental Assessment and a proposed new Wildland Fire Management Plan under contract by Glacier National Park. A park-wide interdisciplinary team coordinated by Wildland Fire Associates focused on discussions of fire-related goals and objectives stated in the Park’s General Management Plan and Resource Management Plan for more than one million acres of management area. Wildland Fire Associates prepared summaries for team review and concurrence. Issues, ...More
Draft Biological Assessment, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service / National Park Service
Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona
The preparation of this document required a strong resource background, particularly in the area of endangered, threatened, and species of concern. The document follows U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service format and guidelines, the purpose of which is to allow the ecological services office to render a biological opinion on the effects of the wildland fire program on listed species. Fire Management Plan and Supporting Environmental Assessment, National Park ...More
Fire Management Plan and Supporting Environmental Assessment, National Park Service
Timucuan National Ecological Preserve, Florida
This unique National Park Service area outside Jacksonville, Florida supports diverse habitat including fire-adapted pine forest and associated flora. Due to fire exclusion, these systems are declining and being replaced with fire intolerant non-native species. High visitor use and the adjacent residential areas of Jacksonville present management constraints to the use of fire in some areas. Wildland Fire Associates worked with Preserve resource management staff to develop a ...More
Fire Management Plan and Supporting Environmental Assessment, National Park Service
Washita Battlefield National Historic Site, Oklahoma
This National Park Service unit was recently created by Congress to commemorate a battle between the U.S. Army and Indians in the mid 1800s. Much of the acquired land purchased was until very recently agricultural. The Fire Management Plan called for suppression to protect the local resources and developments and the use of prescribed fire to re-introduce native grasses to the area. ...More
Community Wildfire Protection Plans
WFA has extensive experience in this rapidly evolving field at the local, county, and state levels. We bring to the process years of combined experience that we draw on to work with a wide-range of stakeholders to fashion creative solutions to often complex problems.
Fire Risk Assessments, Statewide Summary Report Nevada BLM
Nevada
Wildland Fire Associates is currently under contract with BLM in Nevada to complete 16 fire risk assessment plans and a statewide summary report over a three year period. Our project is "landscape" in scope and is to provide a seamless analysis of the hazard fuels, values at risk and assess the threat to these values. A previous study did CWPP’s for the communities, so this contract is to do a similar assessment for the rest of the lands (regardless of ownership). ...More
Wildland Fuels Assessments, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Charles M. Russell, Lee Metcalfe, Boyer Chute, and Ft. Niobrara/Valentine National Wildlife Refuges, Montana and Nebraska
Wildland Fire Associates conducted wildland fuels assessments on five National Wildlife Refuges in Montana and Nebraska in conformance with the National Fire Plan. The primary emphasis was to identify wildland urban interface areas, assess hazard fuels conditions, develop mitigation projects (prescribed burning and hazard fuels reductions), and estimate the cost and duration of mitigation projects. The project had a strong public and agency education component. ...More
Hazard Fuel Assessment and draft Community Wildfire Protection Plan, NPS and Community of Foresta, California
Foresta, California
Foresta is a small community within the boundary of Yosemite National Park that in 1990 was heavily impacted by a catastrophic wildfire. The community is surrounded by forest that was spared by the fire and new vegetation that is becoming reestablished in recent years. This entire community is still very much at risk from a large fast moving wildfire. As part of the process, Wildland Fire Associates assessed all the structures in the community using protocols established by RedZone. ...More
Hazard Fuel Assessment and draft Community Wildfire Protection Plan, NPS and Community of Yosemite West
Yosemite West, California
Yosemite West is a community of over 250 residences that share a boundary of Yosemite National Park. The community is entirely surrounded by forest and is located at the top of a ridge with several miles of a heavily timbered drainage lying directly beneath. This unique situation places the entire community at risk from a large fast moving crown fire. Fuel loading and structure measurements were used with fire behavior prediction models to determine fuel treatments that would ...More
Community Wildfire Protection Plan
Pueblo County, Colorado
In the Summer of 2006, Wildland Fire Associates assisted in the planning process by facilitating several public and team meetings, compiling data provided by the core team, gathering additional information needed to complete the CWPP, recommending treatment options, and drafting and finalizing the plan. As part of the process, Wildland Fire Associates assessed several subdivisions located in the western portion of the planning area using protocol established by the Colorado State ...More
Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) Area Inventory Assessment
Sandoval County, New Mexico
Wildland Fire Associates teamed with SWCA to prepare a report to assist Sandoval County, New Mexico, in assessing hazards within the Wildland urban interface under the SPS7-Community and Private Land Assistance-Multi-Resource Stewardship Grant Program. The purpose of the report was to identify specific hazards associated with communities that are located at the WUI within Sandoval County. This document addressed potential hazards, natural and anthropogenic, in individual communities ...More