Rosi Mulholland

Fire Coordinator

Tools for Prescribed BurningTools for Prescribed Burning

Florida State Parks2007

160 Parks

695,996 acres

Florida State Parks

104 parks have fire-dependent acres

583, 447 upland acres

~263,000 acres are Fire-Dependent

FPS needs to burn 80,000 ac/yr

Ten year average 45,000 ac/yr

FPS Million Acre March1972 - 2007

Congratulations FPS !!

You've come a long way . . .

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1,000,000

1972 - 2006 Through Jan 7 Through Jan 14 Through Jan 21 Through Jan 31 Through Feb 7 Through Feb 14 Through Feb 21

Parks BurningWeek of Feb 15-21

Bald PointGold HeadHontoonJonathan Dickinson Kissimmee PrairieLake KissimmeeLake LouisaMyakka RiverOscar SchererPaynes PrairieSebastian InletSt. AndrewsSt. MarksSuwannee RiverThree RiversWekiwa Springs

February 21, 20071,000,866 acres

When you are in deep trouble, look straight ahead, keep your mouth shut, and say nothing.

Technical AdvisorsTechnical AdvisorsSam McGee/Ray MojicaSam McGee/Ray Mojica––photo pointsphoto pointsEd Harris Ed Harris –– XM weatherXM weatherScott Goodrick Scott Goodrick –– Goggle Goggle Earth smoke plottingEarth smoke plottingBrendan Mulholland Brendan Mulholland –– ITITMatt Corby Matt Corby –– Interagency Interagency cooperationcooperationSteve Miller Steve Miller –– webweb--based based hydrological datahydrological dataTask Master Task Master –– Doreen Doreen DiCarloDiCarlo

Neil Clineman & Bryan Neil Clineman & Bryan Kreiter Kreiter –– Polaris outfittingPolaris outfittingRusty Boys Rusty Boys –– PyroShotPyroShotDragon Toys Dragon Toys –– Jeff Jeff SchardtSchardtRed Tape Burning Red Tape Burning –– Boyd Boyd BlihovdeBlihovdeRadio Technology Radio Technology ––Laura ButterfieldLaura ButterfieldStandStand--in Speaker in Speaker –– Deb Deb HanleyHanley

Brevard Co., DEP, Fla. Natl. Guard, SJRWMD, TNC, USFWS, DOF, East Ridge HS, Florida Atlantic Univ., Private

The Perfect Tool is Out ThereThe Perfect Tool is Out There

Google Earth and Smoke ScreeningGoogle Earth and Smoke Screening

Simple gridSimple grid--based based screening toolscreening toolReplaces old plastic Replaces old plastic protractorprotractorUseful for planningUseful for planning

Google Earth and VsmokeGoogle Earth and Vsmoke

New implementation of New implementation of standard VSmoke standard VSmoke modelmodelUses Google Earth as Uses Google Earth as the GIS interface for the GIS interface for displaying resultsdisplaying resultsDramatically reduced Dramatically reduced learning curve learning curve compared to VSmokecompared to VSmoke--GISGIS

Google Earth and BlueSkyGoogle Earth and BlueSky

Ingest smoke Ingest smoke concentration forecasts concentration forecasts from BlueSky and from BlueSky and display in Google Earthdisplay in Google EarthProvides estimates of Provides estimates of hourly surface hourly surface particulate matter particulate matter concentrations.concentrations.

http://arcimspub.sjrwmd.com/website/dahds/design/index.html

Basic Field Weather Instrumentation

Kestrel 4500 ~ $400

WindMate ~ $220

XM Weather XM Weather http://www.xmradio.com/weather/overview.xmchttp://www.xmradio.com/weather/overview.xmc. .

Antenna ~ $250, service $30/month/antenna

DEP BIPM using with Garmin GPSMap376C ~ $1,000

Near Real-time Weather Data

Enhanced GPS Technology

Topo layer, aerial photo layer, way points, collected data points, shape files

www.delorme.com Earthmate ~ $350

www.ricohsolutions.com/geo Cost: ~ $1100

Sufficient Radio System to Maximize Communications

Effectiveness

www.Relm.com

Mobile $800

Portable $750

Hand - Held Aerial Ignition Device

Launcher - $1895

www.SEI-ind.com

~ $8600 free trial

Free

Dragon eggs ~ $217/1,000

POK Nozzles:$150 - $400 +

POK Sticks:Mini - $5.50+ ea

Large - $16+ ea

POK Foam Technology

Silvex = $13/gal

Water Distribution Manifold – simplifies plumbing by bringing water to central point and dispersing it to outlets

Questions?