  We establish the existence of a stable foliation in the vicinity of a
traveling front solution for systems of reaction diffusion equations in one
space dimension that arise in the study of chemical reactions models and solid
fuel combustion. In this way we complement the orbital stability results from
earlier papers by A. Ghazaryan, S. Schecter and Y. Latushkin. The essential
spectrum of the differential operator obtained by linearization at the front
touches the imaginary axis. In spaces with exponential weights, one can shift
the spectrum to the left. We study the nonlinear equation on the intersection
of the unweighted and weighted spaces. Small translations of the front form a
center unstable manifold. For each small translation we prove the existence of
a stable manifold containing the translated front and show that the stable
manifolds foliate a small ball centered at the front.
