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Fire Ecology
Fire & Bark Beetles
Fire & Wildlife
Invertebrates
Mountain pine beetles
Risk
Fire & Bark Beetles
Fire & Wildlife
Invertebrates
Mountain pine beetles
Risk
Ecosystem(s):
Subalpine wet spruce-fir forest, Subalpine dry spruce-fir forest, Montane wet mixed-conifer forest, Montane dry mixed-conifer forest
NRFSN number: 11977
FRAMES RCS number: 14633
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The transformation of fuels resulting from the mountain pine beetle epidemic is unprecedented in its large geographic extent and the rapid pace of the transformation. This paper describes a proposed fire risk and hazard characterization system, as well as methodology for locating certain stand types on the landscape.
Citation
Gray, Robert W. 2013. Characterizing wildfire hazard and risk in mountain pine beetle-affected stands and how to identify those characteristics at the landscape-scale. Fire Management Today. 72(4): 25-29.