Title:

Field plot measurements from the 2017-2020 FASMEE Rx fires

Author(s):

Eagle, Paige C.; Cronan, James B.; McCarley, T. Ryan; Bright, Benjamin C.; Hudak, Andrew T.

Publication Year:

2024

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Eagle, Paige C.; Cronan, James B.; McCarley, T. Ryan; Bright, Benjamin C.; Hudak, Andrew T. 2024. Field plot measurements from the 2017-2020 FASMEE Rx fires. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. Updated 04 November 2024. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2024-0049

Abstract:

This is a database of fuels (i.e., vegetation) characteristics measured before (pre-fire) and after (post-fire) a series of prescribed fires, from 2017 to 2020, on the Richfield Ranger District of the Fishlake National Forest in central Utah. A total of five prescribed burns were conducted during this period. These were stand-replacing burns in forests dominated by subalpine fir. Their purpose was to remove the coniferous overstory and promote regeneration of quaking aspen. The Blackline burns were implemented to mitigate fuels adjacent to, and in the likely downwind direction from, the Manning Creek prescribed burn unit, to reduce the chance of an escape. Burn units were generally on the order of 50-500 hectares and ignited with a heli-torch. Pre- and post-fire estimates of biomass for aboveground fuels were collected for each stratum to characterize.

Data include measurements taken pre- and post-fire (October 2016 - July 2021). The total number of plots per prescribed burn were as follows: fall 2017 (n = 6), fall 2018 (n = 10), spring 2019 (n = 40), fall 2019 (n = 25), and fall 2020 (n = 60). This package includes fuel data for each fuel stratum including: downed woody debris, standing vegetation, and overstory. Surface fuel data presented in two forms: 1) raw field data and 2) estimated biomass derived from the field data. Overstory data includes: diameter, tree status, height and canopy characteristics. Fuel moisture data (only in 2018, 2019, and 2021) includes: slow drying fuels (collected 1-2 days prior to the burns within the burn unit) and quick drying fuels (collected during the burn at a proxy location outside of the burn unit).

Keywords:

biota; environment; Ecology, Ecosystems, & Environment; Landscape ecology; Fire; Prescribed fire; fuels; fuel models; smoke models; aboveground biomass; subalpine forest; Abies lasiocarpa; Populus tremuloides; consumption; ground truth data; Joint Fire Science Program; JFSP; Utah; Fishlake National Forest

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• McCarley, T. Ryan; Hudak, Andrew T.; Bright, Benjamin C.; Cronan, James B.; Eagle, Paige C.; Ottmar, Roger D.; Watts, Adam C. 2024. Generating fuel consumption maps on prescribed fire experiments from airborne laser scanning. International Journal of Wildland Fire. 33: WF23160. https://doi.org/10.1071/wf23160 https://research.fs.usda.gov/treesearch/68073
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• Kobziar, Leda N.; Lampman, Phinehas; Tohidi, Ali; Kochanski, Adam K.; Cervantes, Antonio; Hudak, Andrew T.; McCarley, Ryan; Gullett, Brian; Aurell, Johanna; Moore, Rachel; Vuono, David C.; Christner, Brent C.; Watts, Adam C.; Cronan, James; Ottmar, Roger. 2024. Bacterial emission factors: A foundation for the terrestrial-atmospheric modeling of bacteria aerosolized by wildland fires. Environmental Science and Technology. 58(5): 2413-2422. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.3c05142 https://research.fs.usda.gov/treesearch/67368

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