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    • Title:
    Field plot measures and fuel treatment units used to assess the effectiveness of (WUI) fuel treatments burned through by the 2007 East Zone and Cascade megafires in central Idaho (1st Edition) Data publication contains GIS data
    Author(s):
    Hudak, Andrew T.
    Publication Year:
    2013
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    Hudak, Andrew T. 2013. Field plot measures and fuel treatment units used to assess the effectiveness of (WUI) fuel treatments burned through by the 2007 East Zone and Cascade megafires in central Idaho. 1st Edition. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. Updated 05 November 2019. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0005
    Abstract:
    This data publication contains both vector and tabular digital data providing field plot measures and fuel treatment units used to assess the effectiveness of (WUI) fuel treatments burned through by the 2007 East Zone and Cascade megafires in central Idaho. Included are two ArcGIS shapefiles that contain the polygons representing units treated in 2006 for the Secesh Meadows area and the polygons representing the units treated between 1996 and 2006 for the Warm Lake area. The first tabular digital file contains specific fuel treatment and wildfire effects measured at paired treated and untreated field sites, both immediately post-fire and one year post-fire. Each site was composed of five field plots. Data collected at the five subplots per site were averaged to represent the site, which was the experimental unit. Data fields include site center locations, charred and uncharred ground cover fractions, litter and duff depths, overstory canopy closure, tree and sapling mortality, density, and basal area; tree, sapling and surface fuel biomass; and several other variables. The second set of data contains areal percentages of high, moderate, low, and unburned severity classes within wildland-urban interface (WUI) fuel treatment units extracted from immediate post-fire and one year post-fire Burned Area Reflectance Classification maps. The third file contains the amount of area burned daily for the Secesh Meadows area, Warm Lake area, and the total for the East Zone and Cascade megafires, as summarized from fire progression data.

    Keywords:
    biota; environment; climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere; Climate change; Climatology; Fire; Fire ecology; Fire suppression, pre-suppression; Prescribed fire; Wildland/urban interface; wildfire; Idaho; Secesh Meadows; Secesh River; Warm Lake
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    • Hudak, Andrew T.; Bright, Benjamin C. 2020. Field plot measures and fuel treatment units used to assess the effectiveness of (WUI) fuel treatments burned through by the 2007 East Zone and Cascade megafires in central Idaho. 2nd Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0005-2
    • Hudak, Andrew T.; Rickert, Ian; Morgan, Penelope; Strand, Eva; Lewis, Sarah A.; Robichaud, Peter R.; Hoffman, Chad; Holden, Zachary A. 2011. Review of fuel treatment effectiveness in forests and rangelands and a case study from the 2007 megafires in central, Idaho, USA. Gen. Tech. Rep. RMRS-GTR-252. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 60 p. https://doi.org/10.2737/RMRS-GTR-252
    • Hudak, Andrew T.; Jain, Theresa B.; Morgan, Penelope; Clark, Jess T. 2011. Remote sensing of WUI fuel treatment effectiveness following the 2007 wildfires in central Idaho. 11 p. https://research.fs.usda.gov/treesearch/43263 In: Wade, D. D. (ed.); Robinson, M. L. (ed.). 2011. Proceedings of the 3rd Fire Behavior and Fuels Conference. Birmingham, AL: International Association of Wildland Fire. October 25-29, 2010; Spokane, WA.
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