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Wildland fire has a long history in both management and
research. For much of that history management and research were segregated
and rarely collaborated. As understanding about the ecological role of fire
grew and as an awareness of how past management practices produced the fuel
problems of today, the need for collaboration and for information management
between wildland fire research and management has also grown.
The mission of FRAMES is to support wildland fire and
natural resource professionals and policymakers, by promoting and
facilitating information and technology sharing, exchange, collaboration,
and development through a state-of-the-art clearinghouse and web portal. The
FRAMES portal helps eliminate redundancy, reduce costs, and promote
increased productivity and efficiency for the professionals responsible for
wildland fire and fire-related research and management.
The vision of FRAMES is to be a national wildland fire
informatics system and clearinghouse that organizes, synthesizes, evaluates,
distributes, tracks use, and measures the efficacy of wildland fire and
fire-related information and technological resources. FRAMES provides
collaborative services for the development, management, and revision of
these resources. Its primary users are researchers, who provide the
scientific basis for wildland fire management, and wildland fire and natural
resource managers / practitioners, who need state-of-the-art research,
information, tools, and data to assist their daily efforts.
For more information, please contact:
Greg Gollberg
FRAMES Project Manager
University of Idaho, College of Natural Resources
Forest Resources Department
Moscow, ID 83844-1133
Ph: (208) 885-9756; Fax: (208) 885-6226
Website:
http://frames.nbii.gov |
