Tim Hatten is an ecologist with the US Geological Survey at the USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center in Sioux Falls, SD serving as the USGS Project Manager for The Landscape Fire and Resource Management Planning Tools (LANDFIRE) program.
The primary objective of LANDFIRE, a joint program among the U.S. Forest Service Fire and Aviation Management, the DOI's Office of Wildland Fire, and The Nature Conservancy is to produce data products and tools to help decision-makers clarify problems and identify possible solutions when managing fires and natural resources. LANDFIRE supports the reduction of risk from wildfire to human lives and property, monitoring of fire danger, prediction of fire behavior on active incidents, and assessment of fire severity and impacts on natural systems.
Science and Products
LANDFIRE data and applications
Non-USGS Publications**
**Disclaimer: The views expressed in Non-USGS publications are those of the author and do not represent the views of the USGS, Department of the Interior, or the U.S. Government.
LANDFIRE-Landscape Fire and Resource Management Planning Tools
Science and Products
- Publications
LANDFIRE data and applications
LANDFIRE is a Federal program that provides a suite of spatial datasets indicating areas of disturbance, vegetation and fuels distributions and structure, and historical conditions. The level of detail presented in LANDFIRE’s classifications of disturbance, vegetation, and fuels is unparalleled and can be used in a variety of applications, including (1) modeling wildfire risk and fire behavior, (2Non-USGS Publications**
Hatten, T. D., J. P. Strange and J. M. Maxwell. 2015. Late season survey of bumble bees along Canadian highways of British Columbia and Yukon Territories. The Western North American Naturalist 75(2):170-180.Hatten, T. D., Biggam, R., J. A. Jorgensen and P. Anders. 2013. Oreoleptis torrenticola Zloty, Sinclair and Pritchard (Diptera: Tabanomorpha) discovered in a 4th order stream of the Cascade Mountains of Eastern Washington. The Western North American Naturalist 73(2):237-239.Hatten, T. D., N. Merz and C. L. Looney. 2011. Synuchus impunctatus Say (Coleoptera: Carabidae) in Idaho: New state record. The Coleopterist Bulletin 65 (3): 325-326.Hatten, T. D., N. Merz, W. J. Johnson, C. L. Looney, S. Soults, R. Capilo, D. Bergeron, P. Anders, P. Tanimoto and B. Shafii. 2010. Note on occurrence of Mymaromella pala (Hymenoptera: Mymarommatidae) in Montana: a new state record. Western North American Naturalist 70 (4): 567-569.Hatten, T. D., R. Dahlquist, S. D. Eigenbrode and N. A. Bosque-Pérez. 2010. Tillage affects the activity-density, absolute density and feeding damage of pea leaf weevil in spring pea. Entomologia, Experimentalis et Applicata 136: 235-242.Hatten, T. D., C. Looney, J. P. Strange and N. A. Bosque-Pérez. 2013. Bumble bee fauna of Palouse Prairie: survey of native bee pollinators in a fragmented ecosystem. Journal of Insect Science 13: 26. Available online: http://www.insectscience.org/13.26.**Disclaimer: The views expressed in Non-USGS publications are those of the author and do not represent the views of the USGS, Department of the Interior, or the U.S. Government.
- Science
LANDFIRE-Landscape Fire and Resource Management Planning Tools
LANDFIRE (LF), a shared program between the wildland fire management programs of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service (FS) and the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI), represents the first and only complete nationally consistent collection of more than 25 geospatial layers (e.g. vegetation, fuel, disturbance, etc.), databases, and ecological models.