This webinar presents results of an opportunistic study to quantify the performance of thinning and surface fuel treatment in migrating wildfire behavior and severity, as represented by bole char, crown scorch proportion, tree burn severity index, on the largest wildfire in southwest USA history: 2011 Wallow fire. The results provide guidance for the size of fuel treatment necessary to buffer WUI communities from high intensity wildfire.
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May 23, 2013
Morris C. Johnson, Maureen C. Kennedy
Cataloging Information
Topic(s):
Fire Behavior
Fire Effects
Ecological - First Order
Fire Regime
Fire Intensity / Burn Severity
Fuels
Fuel Treatments & Effects
Wildland Urban Interface
Fire Effects
Ecological - First Order
Fire Regime
Fire Intensity / Burn Severity
Fuels
Fuel Treatments & Effects
Wildland Urban Interface
Ecosystem(s):
Montane dry mixed-conifer forest
NRFSN number: 14301
FRAMES RCS number: 14804
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