Abstract: |
Direction for fire management planning has been recently revised for all federal wildland fire agencies in the U.S. Fire management plans have become important planning tools that spatially document fire management strategies that support land and resource management planning objectives. Increasingly, however, fire management plans are tools that ensure program accountability and program effectiveness through the development of specific measurable objectives that track the implementation of strategies and their success. The development of measurable objectives in fire management plans addresses not only resource management objectives for wildland fire, but also tie to national performance measures for the federal wildland fire program. These measurable objectives are the cornerstone for the Fire Program Analysis System that measures program effectiveness for adaptive management and the development of the federal wildland fire budget. |
