Scheduling Options for the Coordination of Fuels and Hazard Data Development for CDF Ranger Units and National Forests (July 1996)
Finding
A quick analysis of spatial overlap and schedules shows
that Fire Plan implementation offers significant opportunities for collaborative
assessment of fuels and hazard over the next 12 months.
Analysis
Over the next year, the development of layers for CDF Ranger Units will
require CDF to use data from 11 National Forests. Fire Plan staff have used
data from 7 National Forests to complete just the first three Ranger Units.
To date, CDF has created only one layer, a surface fuels layer, from vegetation
data, except in Riverside, where CDF created additional layers for ladder and
crown attributes.
By intersecting the CDF Ranger Units scheduled for Fire Plan implementation over the next 12 months with National Forests, the following schedule emerges to show when CDF would first confront issues related to NF data from particular Forests:
| Month/Year | CDF Ranger Unit | National Forest |
| 7/96 | Nevada-Yuba-Placer Tuolumne-Calaveras Riverside |
Cleveland Eldorado Plumas San Bernardino Stanislaus Tahoe Lake Tahoe Basin |
| 9/96 | Amador-El Dorado Shasta-Trinity |
Lassen Shasta-Trinity |
| 11/96 | Los Angeles County Santa Clara |
Angeles Los Padres |
| 1/97 | San Diego | |
| 3/97 | Sonoma-Lake-Napa | Mendocino |
| 6/97 | Butte |
(Note: slippage in Fire Plan implementation may change the dates shown for each Ranger Unit but will not change the relationship between the Ranger Units and the National Forests)
The Forests not involved in this first year implementation of the Fire Plan are Inyo, Klamath,
Modoc, Sequoia, Sierra, and Six Rivers.
FOR MORE INFORMATION
Contact Greg Greenwood via e-mail at greg.greenwood@fire.ca.gov or by phone at (916) 227-2655.
Last edited on June 4, 1997 by Greg Greenwood