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Dawn Greenlee presenting. The Statewide Assessment and Resource Strategies planning efforts are providing new tools for the design and prioritization of measures to minimize fire threat to Hawaii's rich cultural and natural resources. The State Assessment includes compilations of fire history data in addition to LANDFIRE's statewide 30-meter resolution maps of fuel model, existing vegetation type, and condition class. These new statewide GIS layers were produced by Natureserve, The Nature Conservancy, and The U.S. Geological Service's Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS), with local assistance from many contributors including USGS Biological Resources Division, Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Natural Resource Conservation Service, USDA Farm Service Agency, the Pacific Disaster Center, the U.S. Forest Service, and the University of Hawaii, and Sanborn. This conference officially kicks off an interagency effort to design high-priority fuel management, fire prevention, and fire preparedness projects for inclusion in Resource Strategies planning documents.USDA project funding will be prioritized on local, regional, and national levels, based on fire threat, value of the resources at risk of burning, and the long-term impact of fire to those resources. Many very high priority projects have already been identified and we appreciate the continued assistance of the many partners who are contributing to this important planning effort.

• Release Date

  Aug 5, 2009

• Runtime

  20:27