Title:

Fuels data for developing models for predicting consumption in sagebrush-dominated ecosystems

Author(s):

Wright, Clinton S.

Publication Year:

2015

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Wright, Clinton S. 2015. Fuels data for developing models for predicting consumption in sagebrush-dominated ecosystems. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2015-0016

Abstract:

Fuel consumption predictions are necessary to accurately estimate or model fire effects, including pollutant emissions, during wildland fires. We collected fuel and environmental measurements on a series of operational prescribed fires in big sagebrush (Artemisia tridentate Nutt.) ecosystems throughout the intermountain west: California, Oregon, Nevada, Wyoming, and Montana. Field measurements took place on operational prescribed fires at 26 sites in 11 operational burn units from September 2001 through April 2004 and included pre-fire fuel loading composition and arrangement, day-of-burn fuel and weather conditions, and fuel consumption.

Keywords:

fuel loading; fuel consumption; CONSUME; wildland fire; fire effects; big sagebrush; Joint Fire Science Program; JFSP; biota; environment; Ecology, Ecosystems, & Environment; Landscape ecology; Fire; Fire ecology; Prescribed fire; California; Montana; Nevada; Wyoming; Oregon; Hart Mountain National Antelope Refuge; Sheldon National Wildlife Refuge; Lava Beds National Monument; Armells Creek; Dyce Creek; North Black Canyon

Related publications:

• Wright, Clinton S.; Ottmar, Roger D.; Ferguson, Sue A.; Vihnanek, Robert E. Unpublished material. Fuel consumption and flammability thresholds in shrub-dominated ecosystems. 2007 Final Report to the Joint Fire Science Program, Project #03-1-3-06. 15 pages (available through full data publication download). https://www.firescience.gov/projects/03-1-3-06/project/03-1-3-06_final_report.pdf
• Wright, Clinton S. 201305. Models for predicting fuel consumption in sagebrush-dominated ecosystems. Rangeland Ecology & Management. 66(3):254-266. Littleton, CO: Society for Range Management. https://doi.org/10.2111/REM-D-12-00027.1
• Wright, Clinton S. 2010. Effects of disturbance and fuelbed succession on spatial patterns of fuel, fire hazard, and carbon; and fuel consumption in shrub-dominated ecosystems. 216 pages. https://www.fs.fed.us/pnw/fera/staff/cwright/Wright_PhD_dissertation_UW_2010.pdf
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