Welcome to FireFlight

Have you ever wondered how firefighters know when and where to do prescribed burns? Have you ever thought about how scientists figure out the health of an ecosystem? Our clients, researchers with the US Department of Agriculture and the US Forest Service, are some of the people that help answer these questions. Using more than 10 years of data, they have created a data set of predicted bird presence in several forests in the Western United States.

A good indicator of ecosystem health is the local population of birds. Analyzing data on predicted bird presence, wildfires, and forest management measures together will help the Forest Service to decide which management methods are the most effective, and how often they should be used.