Title:

Treatment Response Groups (TRGs) for use in landscape-scale assessments of fuel treatment types and locations in the Snake River Plain, Northern Basin and Range, and Central Basin and Range level III ecoregions in the western United States

Author(s):

Chambers, Jeanne C.; Brown, Jessi L.; Reeves, Matthew C.; Strand, Eva K.; Ellsworth, Lisa M.; Tortorelli, Claire M.; Urza, Alexandra K.; Short, Karen C.

Publication Year:

2024

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Chambers, Jeanne C.; Brown, Jessi L.; Reeves, Matthew C.; Strand, Eva K.; Ellsworth, Lisa M.; Tortorelli, Claire M.; Urza, Alexandra K.; Short, Karen C. 2024. Treatment Response Groups (TRGs) for use in landscape-scale assessments of fuel treatment types and locations in the Snake River Plain, Northern Basin and Range, and Central Basin and Range level III ecoregions in the western United States. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2024-0008

Abstract:

This data publication contains raster spatial data (GeoTIFF) representing Treatment Response Groups (TRGs) - sagebrush and pinyon-juniper (PJ) vegetation associations that differ in resilience and resistance and thus responses to fuel treatments - for use in landscape-scale assessments of fuel treatment types and locations in the Snake River Plain, Northern Basin and Range, and Central Basin and Range level III ecoregions in the Great Basin region of the western United States, which includes portions of Nevada, Idaho, Oregon, and Utah. We aggregated the base set of TRGs into TRG combinations with varying responses to woody fuel treatments based on the dominant sagebrush association, the presence ofpinyon-juniper expansion into the sagebrush associations, resilience to disturbance, and resistance to the invasive annual grass, cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum). We assigned fuel treatments to each TRG based on a review of post-treatment fire behavior and ecological responses. These data represent conditions from 2016-2022.

Keywords:

environment; Ecology, Ecosystems, & Environment; Landscape ecology; Fire; Fire effects on environment; Fire ecology; Forest & Plant Health; Climate effects; Invasive species; Inventory, Monitoring, & Analysis; Resource inventory; Natural Resource Management & Use; woody fuel treatments; ecological resilience; resistance to invasion; treatment durability; pinyon-juniper expansion; persistent woodlands; Fuel Treatment Response Groups; Joint Fire Science Program; JFSP; Great Basin; Nevada; Oregon; Idaho; Utah; Northern Basin and Range; Central Basin and Range; Snake River Plain

Related publications:

• Chambers, Jeanne C.; Brown, Jessi L.; Reeves, Matthew C.; Strand, Eva K.; Ellsworth, Lisa M.; Tortorelli, Claire M.; Urza, Alexandra K.; Short, Karen C. 2023. Fuel treatment response groups for fire-prone sagebrush landscapes. Fire Ecology. 19: 70. https://doi.org/10.1186/s42408-023-00230-2 https://research.fs.usda.gov/treesearch/67189

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