Fire History for Region 1 (1940 - 2001)
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- Identification_Information:
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- Citation:
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- Citation_Information:
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- Originator: Northern Region National Fire Plan
- Originator: Cohesive Strategy Team
- Publication_Date: 26 March 2002
- Title: Fire History for Region 1 (1940 - 2001)
- Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: vector digital data
- Online_Linkage:
- <http://www.fs.fed.us/r1/gis/thematic_data/fire_history_region1_1940_2001.zip>
- Description:
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- Abstract:
- Abstract - This layer was initiated to provide the National Fire Plan,
Cohesive Strategy Team, with the best, currently available data on fire
history in the Region One area. A regional fire history grid did exist,
but newer data sets were available for 8 of the 13 forests. The previous
data, and existing data for the remaining forests was less than compete or
non-existent. Data was collected from many sources and combined into a
common format across the region. Fire data was obtained from individual
forests, a regional fire grid, historical records, and the 2000 and 2001
fire perimeters obtained from the R1 website. The information was
collected and put into a polygon coverage to facilitate conversion to
ArcGis in the near future. An item for each of 7 decades, 40s, 50s, 60s,
70s, 80s, 90s, and 00, was populated with the year of each fire. This also
allowed for multiple year fires. This coverage has some information
lacking and it would be good to add better data as it becomes available to
make the coverage more useful and consistent.
- Purpose:
- Purpose - The fire history layer was needed to answer some wildlife
questions about previous burns in certain habitat areas. Information about
fires needed to include the year of the burn and the fire perimeter
location. Since some recent forest information was now available and there
was some missing data in the regional fire grid, this layer was initiated
to provide the best available data for fire history to include the years
1940 to 2001.
- Time_Period_of_Content:
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- Time_Period_Information:
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- Single_Date/Time:
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- Calendar_Date: 26 Mar 2002
- Currentness_Reference: publication date
- Status:
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- Progress: Complete
- Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: None planned
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- East_Bounding_Coordinate: -102.962407
- North_Bounding_Coordinate: 49.234254
- South_Bounding_Coordinate: 43.909700
- Keywords:
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- Theme:
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- Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: None
- Theme_Keyword: National Fire Plan
- Theme_Keyword: Wild and Prescribed Fire & Fuels
- Place:
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- Place_Keyword: Montana
- Place_Keyword: Idaho
- Place_Keyword: North Dakota
- Place_Keyword: Northern Region
- Place_Keyword: Region One
- Place_Keyword: Western Region One
- Place_Keyword: Beaverhead_Deerlodge National Forest
- Place_Keyword: Bitterroot National Forest
- Place_Keyword: Clearwater National Forest
- Place_Keyword: Custer National Forest
- Place_Keyword: Flathead National Forest
- Place_Keyword: Gallatin National Forest
- Place_Keyword: Helena National Forest
- Place_Keyword: Idaho Panhandle National Forest
- Place_Keyword: Kootenai National Forest
- Place_Keyword: Lewis and Clark National Forest
- Place_Keyword: Lolo National Forest
- Place_Keyword: Nez Perce National Forest
- Place_Keyword: Dakota Prairie Grasslands
- Access_Constraints:
- This data set is in the public domain, and the recipient may not assert
any proprietary rights thereto nor represent it to anyone as other than a
data set produced by the USDA Forest Service, Flathead National Forest.
- Use_Constraints:
- This data set is provided "as-is" without warranty of any kind,
including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability and
fitness or a particular purpose. The user assumes all responsibility for the
accuracy and suitability of this dataset for a specific application. In no
event will the creators or USDA Forest Service be liable for any damages,
including lost profits, lost savings, or other incidental or consequential
damages arising from the use of or inability to use this dataset. Use of
these data may require the ability to read ArcInfo datasets. Users must
assume responsibility for determining the suitability of these data for
their purposes.
- Point_of_Contact:
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- Contact_Information:
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- Contact_Person_Primary:
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- Contact_Person: Don Krogstad
- Contact_Organization:
- Flathead National Forest, National Fire Plan Cohesive Strategy
Team
- Contact_Position: GIS Coordinator
- Contact_Address:
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- Address_Type: mailing and physical address
- Address: Flathead National Forest
- Address: 1935 3rd Ave. East
- City: Kalispell
- State_or_Province: Montana
- Postal_Code: 59901
- Country: USA
- Contact_Voice_Telephone: (406) 758 - 5223
- Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (406) 758 - 5363
- Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: dkrogstad@fs.fed.us
- Hours_of_Service: Monday - Friday 8-4, Mountain Time
- Native_Data_Set_Environment:
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ArcCatalog 9.0.0.535
- Cross_Reference:
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- Citation_Information:
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- Originator: Northern Region, National Fire Plan, Cohesive
Strategy Team
- Title: Metadata template
- Data_Quality_Information:
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- Logical_Consistency_Report:
- Inconsistencies - The individual forest covers were not consistent in
collection scale, completeness, projection and method of storage. The 9
individual forests had 9 different ways of storing data, each in their own
projection. Also, each had different ideas about completeness for this
layer. The B-d data was points only and therefore not usable for this
analysis. Nothing unexpected so far. The regional grid of fire history had
to deal with the same problems. This means that the grid had many of the
same problems too. There was no data from 1988 in the grid. 8 of 13 forests
had better data to offer, so we used forest data where we could. The grid
was used for data to fill in the B-d, the Helena and the Lolo, all of whom
had no data now, and very little from the grid. Fire polygon splitting. In
order to separate the grid data by forest, I intersected the grid with
ownership. Fire polygons were split at ownership boundaries making multiple
polygons. Fire perimeters were also split into multiple polygons due to
combining polygons from multiple years, as part of the polygon may have
burned in different years. Therefore, to obtain true fire acres for a fire,
fire polygons might have to be separated by decade, then, dissolved by year.
Fire size. The 2000 and 2001 fire perimeter data was only available for
fires over 100 ac. I believe all other data has all fires of all sizes
contained in it. The Helena has a total of only 23 fires for this 61 year
period. The B-d has a very low total number of fires also. No data for the
Custer was available except the 2001 data. When compared to the fire point
coverage for the region, for fires over 100 ac, this coverage is missing
some fires and has very little data off of forest service land. This
coverage has some information lacking especially for the B-d, Custer,
Helena, and Lolo. It would be good to add better data as it becomes
available to make the coverage more useful and consistent.
- Completeness_Report: Data may be updated as new information
becomes available.
- Positional_Accuracy:
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- Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy:
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- Horizontal_Positional_Accuracy_Report:
- This is basically 1:100000 scale (100K) data with a horizontal
accuracy of approximately 170 feet.
- Lineage:
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- Source_Information:
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- Source_Scale_Denominator: 1:100000
- Process_Step:
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- Process_Description:
- Process - First I evaluated the existing R1 fire history grid. Then
I looked at the individual forest data now available. The grid had no
data from 1988. There was other data missing or incomplete. I used
forest data where I could, as I felt it would be more up to date and
complete for 8 of the 13 forests. The grid was used, with other data, to
fill in the B-d, the Helena and the Lolo, all of whom had little
information in the grid and very little available now. Each forest's
fire history data was reprojected to the r1 projection, then, converted
to a common polygon format. All the coverages were mapjoined together to
form a regional coverage. A polygon coverage was used to be compatible
with the expected conversion to ArcGis in the very near future. In order
to use the grid data by forest, I intersected the grid with our
ownership layer to identify fires on each forest. This caused many fire
polygons to be split by ownership. After the grid was converted to
polygon format, it too was changed to the common format and information
for the B-d, Helena and the Lolo was mapjoined to the forest coverages.
To augment the limited data in the grid for these forests, I used union
to add other data. The canyon fire perimeter, and some coverages from
Anderson on the Lolo, helped to fill in some additional data. The Helena
polygons had no year data, but Jeff Jones had a Helena map with year
information, so I added year information for 22 fires on the west
portion of the Helena for the time period we were after. Several fires
on the Lolo were identified for year by Mike Hillis and added in. Then
the 2000 and 2001 fire perimeter data for fires over 100 ac were
obtained from the R1 web site and added in. The final coverage,
firehist, has items for each decade, acres, and forest. The item,
forest, was added where the forest information was used. This means that
not all fires have the forest item filled in. To obtain more accurate
information about each forest's burned acreage, a summary could be run
by forest, selected from the owner_r1 layer, for each decade of fires to
get a list of fires by forest, by decade. This coverage was put together
in Arc 8.1, but has been made compatible with Arc 7.2.
- Process_Step:
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- Process_Description: Metadata imported.
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- Horizontal_Coordinate_System_Definition:
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- Map_Projection:
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- Map_Projection_Name: Albers Conical Equal Area
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- Attribute_Definition: Fire name if known
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- Attribute_Label: ARC_ACRES
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- Attribute_Label: FOREST
- Attribute_Definition: Only entered for forest data
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- Contact_Person_Primary:
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- Contact_Person: Don Krogstad
- Contact_Organization:
- Flathead National Forest, National Fire Plan, Cohesive Strategy
Team
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- Address: Flathead National Forest
- Address: 1935 3rd Ave. East
- City: Kalispell
- State_or_Province: Montana
- Postal_Code: 59901
- Country: USA
- Contact_Voice_Telephone: (406) 758 - 5223
- Contact_Facsimile_Telephone: (406) 758 - 5363
- Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: dkrogstad@fs.fed.us
- Hours_of_Service: Monday - Friday 8-4, Mountain Time
- Resource_Description: Downloadable Data
- Distribution_Liability:
- The Forest Service uses the most current and complete data available.
GIS data and product accuracy may vary. They may be: developed from sources
of differing accuracy, accurate only at certain scales, based on modeling or
interpretation, incomplete while being created or revised, etc. Using GIS
products for purposes other than those for which they were created, may
yield inaccurate or misleading results. The Forest Service reserves the
right to correct, update, modify, or replace, GIS products without
notification.
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