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

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Identification_Information:
Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator: Hudak, Andrew T.
Publication_Date: 2013
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
Edition: 1st
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: vector and tabular digital data
Publication_Information:
Publication_Place: Fort Collins, CO
Publisher: USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station
Other_Citation_Details:
Updated 05 November 2019
Online_Linkage: https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0005
Description:
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.
Purpose:
These data were collected to quantitatively assess the effectiveness of WUI fuel treatments, designed to protect the local communities of Secesh Meadows and Warm Lake that were burned through by the 2007 East Zone and Cascade megafires, respectively, in central Idaho.
Supplemental_Information:
Original metadata date 04/24/2013. Minor metadata updates on 12/14/2016. On 03/15/2019 locations were added to the data and minor changes to field names to make it compatible with other related data that will be available in 2019. On 11/05/2019 five fuel load variables were added. In addition we slightly modified the calculation of fine and coarse woody debris, which also affected downed woody debris (see variable descriptions). Metadata was updated accordingly.

* On 07/07/2020 a newer edition of these data became available (Hudak et al. 2020, https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0005-2). We recommend the use of this second edition which includes individual tree and sapling data collected in 2008 at the 40 paired sites, which were only summarized at plot level in the first edition. Data from the first edition have been retained in the second edition.
Time_Period_of_Content:
Time_Period_Information:
Range_of_Dates/Times:
Beginning_Date: 20070707
Ending_Date: 20080808
Currentness_Reference:
Ground condition
Status:
Progress: Complete
Maintenance_and_Update_Frequency: None planned
Spatial_Domain:
Description_of_Geographic_Extent:
Secesh Meadows is located about 48 kilometers north-northeast of McCall, Idaho, within the area that was burned by the 2007 East Zone complex. It stretches along the Secesh River, and is surrounded by steep, forested terrain on both sides of the riparian zone. The forest type is subalpine with lodgepole pine, Engelmann spruce (Picea engelmannii), and subalpine fir.

Warm Lake is located about 43 kilometers east-northeast of Cascade Idaho, within the area that was burned by the 2007 Cascade complex. The forest type is mixed conifer with lodgepole pine, Douglas-fir, and ponderosa pine.
Bounding_Coordinates:
West_Bounding_Coordinate: -115.9914
East_Bounding_Coordinate: -115.4811
North_Bounding_Coordinate: 45.5192
South_Bounding_Coordinate: 44.6145
Bounding_Altitudes:
Altitude_Minimum: 1576
Altitude_Maximum: 1880
Altitude_Distance_Units: meters
Keywords:
Theme:
Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: ISO 19115 Topic Category
Theme_Keyword: biota
Theme_Keyword: environment
Theme_Keyword: climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
Theme:
Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: National Research & Development Taxonomy
Theme_Keyword: Climate change
Theme_Keyword: Climatology
Theme_Keyword: Fire
Theme_Keyword: Fire ecology
Theme_Keyword: Fire suppression, pre-suppression
Theme_Keyword: Prescribed fire
Theme_Keyword: Wildland/urban interface
Theme:
Theme_Keyword_Thesaurus: None
Theme_Keyword: wildfire
Place:
Place_Keyword_Thesaurus: None
Place_Keyword: Idaho
Place_Keyword: Secesh Meadows
Place_Keyword: Secesh River
Place_Keyword: Warm Lake
Access_Constraints: None
Use_Constraints:
These data were collected using funding from the U.S. Government and can be used without additional permissions or fees. If you use these data in a publication, presentation, or other research product please use the following citation:

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
Point_of_Contact:
Contact_Information:
Contact_Person_Primary:
Contact_Person: Andrew T. Hudak
Contact_Organization: USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station
Contact_Position: Research Forester
Contact_Address:
Address_Type: mailing and physical
Address: 1221 South Main Stree
City: Moscow
State_or_Province: ID
Postal_Code: 83843
Country: USA
Contact_Voice_Telephone: 208-883-2327
Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: andrew.hudak@usda.gov
Cross_Reference:
Citation_Information:
Originator: Hudak, Andrew T.
Originator: Bright, Benjamin C.
Publication_Date: 2020
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
Edition: 2nd
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: vector and tabular digital data
Publication_Information:
Publication_Place: Fort Collins, CO
Publisher: Forest Service Research Data Archive
Online_Linkage: https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0005-2
Cross_Reference:
Citation_Information:
Originator: Hudak, Andrew T.
Originator: Rickert, Ian
Originator: Morgan, Penelope
Originator: Strand, Eva
Originator: Lewis, Sarah A.
Originator: Robichaud, Peter R.
Originator: Hoffman, Chad
Originator: Holden, Zachary A.
Publication_Date: 2011
Title:
Review of fuel treatment effectiveness in forests and rangelands and a case study from the 2007 megafires in central, Idaho, USA
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: document
Series_Information:
Series_Name: Gen. Tech. Rep.
Issue_Identification: RMRS-GTR-252
Publication_Information:
Publication_Place: Fort Collins, CO
Publisher: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station
Other_Citation_Details:
60 p.
Online_Linkage: https://doi.org/10.2737/RMRS-GTR-252
Cross_Reference:
Citation_Information:
Originator: Hudak, Andrew T.
Originator: Jain, Theresa B.
Originator: Morgan, Penelope
Originator: Clark, Jess T.
Publication_Date: 2011
Title:
Remote sensing of WUI fuel treatment effectiveness following the 2007 wildfires in central Idaho
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: conference proceedings
Other_Citation_Details:
11 p.
Online_Linkage: https://www.fs.usda.gov/treesearch/pubs/43263
Larger_Work_Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator: Wade, D. D. (ed.)
Originator: Robinson, M. L. (ed.)
Publication_Date: 2011
Title:
Proceedings of the 3rd Fire Behavior and Fuels Conference
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: conference proceedings
Publication_Information:
Publication_Place: Birmingham, AL
Publisher: International Association of Wildland Fire
Other_Citation_Details:
October 25-29, 2010; Spokane, WA
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Data_Quality_Information:
Attribute_Accuracy:
Attribute_Accuracy_Report:
Plot centers were geolocated with a differential Global Positioning System (GPS), logging a minimum of 150 positions that were subsequently differentially corrected and averaged to decrease the uncertainty to <2 meters.
Logical_Consistency_Report:
To minimize inconsistencies between field observers, optical estimates of cover fractions were discussed until agreed upon at the start of each day in the field. The field data were transferred from hard copy to digital format by two separate data entry persons, and then the Excel spreadsheets compared with logical functions, to flag any discrepancies between the two files so that they could be checked against the original data sheets and corrected. Spreadsheet functions were used to sum the recorded percent cover data to check for arithmetic errors; such errors were corrected by adjusting the majority class so that the percentages summed to unity.
Completeness_Report:
Some of the sites were only measured in 2008, whereas others were measured in 2007 and 2008.
Lineage:
Methodology:
Methodology_Type: Field
Methodology_Description:
INITIAL FIELD ASSESSMENT:

Fire effects on vegetation and soils were assessed initially in the field from 18 to 21 September 2007. Paired field sites were used to compare fire effects in treatment units relative to adjacent untreated lands. National Forest managers helped locate fuel treatments that had burned through by wildfires. Once a fuel treatment unit was selected for sampling, five 1 meter square (m2) subplots were used to measure charred and uncharred ground cover fractions, litter and duff depths, and overstory canopy closure; the five subplots were situated in a systematic pattern per site, with the rule that no subplot should be closer than 5 meters (m) from the edge of the fuel treatment unit. The central subplot was situated in a random location near the center of the treatment unit, and the four other subplots were placed 30 m away from the central subplot in the four cardinal directions. We recorded tree species, diameter at breast height (dbh), and condition in a 1/50-hectare (ha) fixed-radius (8.0 m) plot situated at the center of the field site. An identical plot configuration was randomly placed in an adjacent untreated site that had a similar topographic position.

EXTENDED FIELD ASSESSMENT:

A more thorough field assessment was conducted in August 2008, one year after the fires. There were several notable differences between our initial and extended assessments. The field site count was expanded from 10 paired sites in 2007 to 20 paired sites in 2008, with the 2008 assessment including re-measurement of all of the 2007 sites. It was learned late in the 2007 assessment that both sites in one of the site pairs were actually within a treatment unit, just on opposite sides of a road that was used as a firebreak. This complication was resolved in 2008 by reclassifying both sites as "treated" and establishing two new untreated sites to complement the treated sites, resulting in two paired sites. In other words, of the 20 field sites measured in 2007, 11 sites were treated and 9 were untreated. The 1/50-ha fixed-radius (8.0 m) plots were expanded from our 2007 assessment to 1/25-ha fixed-radius (11.3 m) plots in order to tally more trees. In 2008, tree, crown base, maximum scorch, and bole char heights were also measured using a laser rangefinder. One year post-fire vegetation re-growth was measured in a 1/500-ha (2.5 m radius) subplot that was situated at the center of each field site, where the percent cover of each plant functional type was ocularly estimated and the species encountered listed. Planar transects (Brown 1974) were added to the sampling protocol to measure surface fuels following a slightly modified FIREMON sampling protocol (Lutes and others 2006). The 30-m coarse woody debris (CWD) transect was divided into two 15-m sections situated on either side of plot center in order to preclude any directional bias. Fine woody debris (FWD) was sampled along the central 2-m section of each 15-m CWD transect. Field site count was doubled, the tree plot size expanded, and additional variables measured in 2008 because there was more time to sample than in 2007 when the East Zone and Cascade complexes were still officially active and work needed to be done quickly. Tree diameter and sapling tallies were used in the 1/25-ha fixed-radius plots to estimate the plot-level basal area of trees and saplings. To retrospectively estimate the basal area of trees and saplings that were removed by either the fuel treatment or natural disturbance, the stumps in each plot within three diameter classes were tallied with the following midpoints: small (5.1 cm), medium (17.8 cm), and large (30.5 cm). Any remaining bark on the stump was excluded from the diameter measurement.

See Methodology citation for more details and full citation for other publications referenced above.
Methodology_Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator: Hudak, Andrew T.
Originator: Rickert, Ian
Originator: Morgan, Penelope
Originator: Strand, Eva
Originator: Lewis, Sarah A.
Originator: Robichaud, Peter R.
Originator: Hoffman, Chad
Originator: Holden, Zachary A.
Publication_Date: 2011
Title:
Review of fuel treatment effectiveness in forests and rangelands and a case study from the 2007 megafires in central, Idaho, USA
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: document
Series_Information:
Series_Name: Gen. Tech. Rep.
Issue_Identification: RMRS-GTR-252
Publication_Information:
Publication_Place: Fort Collins, CO
Publisher: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station
Other_Citation_Details:
60 p.
Online_Linkage: https://doi.org/10.2737/RMRS-GTR-252
Methodology_Citation:
Citation_Information:
Originator: Brown, James K.
Publication_Date: 1974
Title:
Handbook for inventorying downed woody material
Geospatial_Data_Presentation_Form: document
Series_Information:
Series_Name: Gen. Tech. Rep.
Issue_Identification: INT-16
Publication_Information:
Publication_Place: Ogden, UT
Publisher: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Intermountain Forest and Range Experiment Station
Other_Citation_Details:
24 p.
Online_Linkage: https://www.fs.usda.gov/treesearch/pubs/28647
Process_Step:
Process_Description:
Daily burn area data were summarized from fire progression GIS data layers obtained from the Cascade incident camp, which are now archived by the National Interagency Fire Center (https://www.nifc.gov/).

Weather data used in Hudak et al. (2011) were hourly air temperature, dewpoint temperature, relative humidity, precipitation, wind speed, and wind gust speed summarized as daily means. Weather data are available from https://mesowest.utah.edu/ under copyright and therefore are not included in this data publication.

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
Process_Date: Unknown
Process_Step:
Process_Description:
Five new variables were added to the file \Data\ID_megafire_plot_data_2_ADD_ANGLE_CORRECTION_FACTOR.csv (originally named ID_megafire_plot_data.csv): FUEL.1HR.MG.HA.08, FUEL.10HR.MG.HA.08, FUEL.100HR.MG.HA.08, FUEL.1000HR.SOUND.MG.HA.08, and FUEL.1000HR.ROTTEN.MG.HA.08. In addition to that we recalculated fine woody debris (FWD.Mg.ha.08) as the sum of the 1-, 10-, and 100-hour (hr) fuels. Similarly, coarse woody debris (CWD.Mg.ha.08) was partitioned into 1000-hr sound (decay class 1-3) and 1000-hr rotten (decay class 4-5) fuel components, with decay classes defined by Brown (1974). In addition, per Brown (1974), a non-horizontal correction factor of 1.13 was including in the 1-hr, 10-hr, and 100-hr fuel load calculations, which had been omitted in the original data file; this increased the estimated fuel loads of these 3 FWD components by 13%. As a result, the values of total DWD.Mg.ha.08 increased as well.

Fuels were only tallied along Brown’s (1974) fuel transects on either side of plot A (see description above), so fuel loads are only reported for plot A and not the four peripheral plots (B, D, F, H) per site.

Brown, James K. 1974. Handbook for inventorying downed woody material. Gen. Tech. Rep. INT-16. Ogden, UT: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Intermountain Forest and Range Experiment Station. 24 p. https://www.fs.usda.gov/treesearch/pubs/28647
Process_Date: 2019
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Entity_and_Attribute_Information:
Overview_Description:
Entity_and_Attribute_Overview:
GIS DATA:

Filename: SeceshMeadows_fuel_treatment_units_ll
Contains the polygons representing units treated in 2006 for the Secesh Meadows area, along with the treatment type, reference number (1-18), treatment year, and polygon size in hectares.

Filename: WarmLake_fuel_treatment_units_ll
Contains the polygons representing the units treated in the Warm Lake area, along with the unit name, treatment year, and polygon size in hectares.


TABULAR DIGITAL DATA:

Filename: ID_megafire_gis_data.csv
Contains the percentage of treatment areas exhibiting no burn, low, medium, and high burns in both 2007 and 2008.
Variables include:

treatment_unit = treatment unit being assessed (names are provided for locations in the Warm Lake area, and SM_xx are names provided for locations in the Secesh Meadows area)

treatment_type = type of fuel treatment used (pile and burn, mastication, underburn, rx_piles which are piles burned in a prescribed burn, or wf_piles which are piles burned in a wildfire)

unburned_ha_obs.08 = hectares unburned as observed from 2008 Landsat imagery

low_ha_obs.08 = hectares burned at low severity as observed from 2008 Landsat imagery

moderate_ha_obs.08 = hectares burned at moderate severity as observed from 2008 Landsat imagery

high_ha_obs.08 = hectares burned at high severity as observed from 2008 Landsat imagery

total_ha_obs.08 = total hectares in treatment unit as observed from 2008 Landsat imagery

unburned_perc_obs.08 = percent unburned hectares as observed from 2008 Landsat imagery

low_perc_obs.08 = percent hectares burned at low severity as observed from 2008 Landsat imagery

moderate_perc_obs.08 = percent hectares burned at moderate severity as observed from 2008 Landsat imagery

high_perc_obs.08 = percent hectares burned at high severity as observed from 2008 Landsat imagery

total_perc_obs.08 = total percent hectares in treatment unit as observed from 2008 Landsat imagery

unburned_ha_obs.07 = hectares unburned as observed from 2007 Landsat imagery

low_ha_obs.07 = hectares that burned at low severity as observed from 2007 Landsat imagery

moderate_ha_obs.07 = hectares that burned at moderate severity as observed from 2007 Landsat imagery

high_ha_obs.07 = hectares that burned at high severity as observed from 2007 Landsat imagery

total_ha_obs.07 = total hectares in treatment unit as observed from 2007 Landsat imagery

unburned_perc_obs.07 = percent unburned hectares as observed from 2007 Landsat imagery

low_perc_obs.07 = percent hectares burned at low severity as observed from 2007 Landsat imagery

moderate_perc_obs.07 = percent hectares burned at moderate severity as observed from 2007 Landsat imagery

high_perc_obs.07 = percent hectares burned at high severity as observed from 2007 Landsat imagery

total_perc_obs.07 = total percent hectares in treatment unit as observed from 2007 Landsat imagery



Filename: ID_megafire_plot_data_2_ADD_ANGLE_CORRECTION_FACTOR.csv
Contains specific fuel treatment and wildfire effects at paired treated and untreated sites, right after the fire and one-year after. Includes plot locations. (Note: Data were collected in 2007 and 2008, but in 2008 additional plots were added. Cells containing "NA", which means not applicable, were those plots not originally collected in 2007.)
Variables include:

Plot = plot identifier

Fire = wildfire name

Site = site identifier

Plot_Letter = Plot letter (A, B, D, F, H)

Condition = label identifying whether plot was treated or untreated

Fuel_Treatment = type of fuel treatment used on treated plot

Fuel_Treatment_Year = year plot was treated (actual date, mm/dd/yy, provided if available, where mm = month, dd = day, and yy = year)

Longitude = longitude of study plot in decimal degrees

Latitude = latitude of study plot in decimal degrees

X_Albers = X coordinate in Albers Conical Equal Area projection (PROJ.4 = "+proj=aea +lat_1=29.5 +lat_2=45.5 +lat_0=23 +lon_0=-96 +x_0=0 +y_0=0 +ellps=GRS80 +towgs84=0,0,0,0,0,0,0 +units=m +no_defs")

Y_Albers = Y coordinate in Albers Conical Equal Area projection (PROJ.4 = "+proj=aea +lat_1=29.5 +lat_2=45.5 +lat_0=23 +lon_0=-96 +x_0=0 +y_0=0 +ellps=GRS80 +towgs84=0,0,0,0,0,0,0 +units=m +no_defs")

Elevation = elevation of study plot in meters

Site.Severity.08 = field call of overall severity at study plot, 2008

Aspect.Degree.08 = aspect in degrees from north at study plot, 2008

Slope.Percent.08 = percent slope at study plot, 2008

Slope.Position.08 = slope position (top, mid, or bottom) at study plot, 2008

Vertical.Slope.Shape.08 = vertical slope shape (CC = concave, LN = linear, or CX = convex) at study plot, 2008

Horizontal.Slope.Shape.08 = horizontal slope shape (CC = concave, LN = linear, or CX = convex) at study plot, 2008

Canopy.Severity.08 = field call of canopy severity at study plot, 2008

Canopy.Green.Percent.08 = percent green canopy cover at study plot, 2008

Canopy.Brown.Percent.08 = percent brown canopy cover at study plot, 2008

Canopy.Black.Percent.08 = percent black canopy cover at study plot, 2008

Ground.Severity.08 = field call of ground severity at study plot, 2008

Ground.Green.Percent.08 = percent green ground cover at study plot, 2008

Ground.Brown.Percent.08 = percent brown ground cover at study plot, 2008

Ground.Black.Percent.08 = percent black ground cover at study plot, 2008

Perc.Canopy.Closure.08 = percent canopy closure at study plot, 2008

Needlecast.08 = percent needlecast cover at study plot, 2008

Perc.Green.Veg.08 = percent green vegetation cover at study plot, 2008

Perc.NPV.Cover.08 = percent non-photosynthetic vegetation cover at study plot, 2008

Perc.Ash.Cover.08 = percent ash cover at study plot, 2008

Perc.Rock.Cover.08 = percent rock cover at study plot, 2008

Perc.Soil.Cover.08 = percent soil cover at study plot, 2008

Total.Organic.08 = percent total organic cover at study plot, 2008

Total.Inorganic.08 = percent total inorganic cover at study plot, 2008

Total.Char.08 = percent charred cover at study plot, 2008

Litter.Dep.08 = litter depth in (mm = millimeters) at study plot , 2008

Duff.Dep.08 = duff depth (mm) at study plot , 2008

WR.1CM.08 = water infiltration rate (ml/min = milliliters per minute) at 1 cm (centimeter) soil depth at study plot, 2008

WR.3CM.08 = water infiltration rate (ml/min) at 3 cm soil depth at study plot, 2008

Tree.Mg.ha.08 = tree biomass (Mg/ha = milligrams per hectare) at study plot, 2008

Tree.m2.ha.08 = tree basal area (m2/ha = squared meters per hectare) at study plot, 2008

Tree.ph.08 = trees per hectare at study plot, 2008

Tree.Mortality.08 = percent tree mortality at study plot, 2008

GR.Crown.08 = percent green tree crowns at study plot, 2008

BR.Crown.08 = percent brown tree crowns at study plot, 2008

BL.Crown.08 = percent black tree crowns at study plot, 2008

Sapling.Mg.ha.08 = saplings biomass (Mg/ha) at study plot, 2008

Sapling.m2.ha.08 = sapling basal area (m2/ha) at study plot, 2008

Sapling.ph.08 = saplings per hectare at study plot, 2008

Sapling.Mortality.08 = percent sapling mortality at study plot, 2008

Tree.stump.m2.ha.08 = tree stump basal area (m2/ha) at study plot, 2008

Tree.stump.ph.08 = tree stumps per hectare at study plot, 2008

Sapling.stump.ph.08 = sapling stumps per hectare at study plot, 2008

Sapling.stump.m2.ha.08 = sapling stump basal area (m2/ha) at study plot, 2008

Seedling.ph.08 = seedlings per hectare at study plot, 2008

FUEL.1HR.MG.HA.08 = 1-hour (hr) fuel load (Mg/ha) at study plot, 2008

FUEL.10HR.MG.HA.08 = 10-hr fuel load (Mg/ha) at study plot, 2008

FUEL.100HR.MG.HA.08 = 100-hr fuel load (Mg/ha) at study plot, 2008

FWD.MG.HA.08 = fine woody debris (sum of 1-hr, 10-hr, and 100-hr fuels) biomass (Mg/ha) at study plot, 2008

FUEL.1000HR.SOUND.MG.HA.08 = 1000-hr sound fuel load (Mg/ha) at study plot, 2008

FUEL.1000HR.ROTTEN.MG.HA.08 = 1000-hr rotten fuel load (Mg/ha) at study plot, 2008

CWD.Mg.ha.08 = coarse woody debris (sum of 100-hr sound and rotten fuels) biomass (Mg/ha) at study plot, 2008

DWD.Mg.ha.08 = total (CWD + FWD) downed woody debris biomass (Mg/ha) at study plot, 2008

Crown.Base.Ht.m.08 = crown base height (m = meters), 2008

Crown.Scorch.Ht.m.08 = crown scorch height (m) at study plot, 2008

Bole.Char.Ht.m.08 = bole char height (m) at study plot, 2008

Tree.Ht.m.08 = tree height (m) at study plot, 2008

Plant_spp_richness.08 = plant species richness at study plot, 2008

Veg.Cover.08 = percent vegetation cover at study plot, 2008

Site.Severity.07 = field call of overall severity at study plot, 2007

Aspect.Degree.07 = aspect in degrees from north at study plot, 2007

Slope.Percent.07 = percent slope at study plot, 2007

Slope.Position.07 = slope position (top, mid, or bottom) at study plot, 2007

Vertical.Slope.Shape.07 = vertical slope shape (CC = concave, LN = linear or CX = convex) at study plot, 2007

Horizontal.Slope.Shape.07 = horizontal of slope shape (CC = concave, LN = linear or CX = convex) at study plot, 2007

Canopy.Severity.07 = field call of canopy severity at study plot, 2007

Canopy.Green.Percent.07 = percent green canopy cover at study plot, 2007

Canopy.Brown.Percent.07 = percent brown canopy cover at study plot, 2007

Canopy.Black.Percent.07 = percent black canopy cover at study plot, 2007

Ground.Severity.07 = field call of ground severity at study plot, 2007

Ground.Green.Percent.07 = percent green ground cover at study plot, 2007

Ground.Brown.Percent.07 = percent brown ground cover at study plot, 2007

Ground.Black.Percent.07 = percent black ground cover at study plot, 2007

Perc.Canopy.Closure.07 = percent canopy closure at study plot, 2007

Needlecast.07 = percent needlecast cover at study plot, 2007

Perc.Green.Veg.07 = percent green vegetation cover at study plot, 2007

Perc.NPV.Cover.07 = percent non-photosynthetic vegetation cover at study plot, 2007

Perc.Ash.Cover.07 = percent ash cover at study plot, 2007

Perc.Rock.Cover.07 = percent rock cover at study plot, 2007

Perc.Soil.Cover.07 = percent soil cover at study plot, 2007

Total.Organic.07 = percent total organic cover at study plot, 2007

Total.Inorganic.07 = percent total inorganic cover at study plot, 2007

Total.Char.07 = percent charred cover at study plot, 2007

Litter.Dep.07 = litter depth (mm) at study plot, 2007

Duff.Dep.07 = duff depth (mm) at study plot, 2007

WR.1CM.07 = water infiltration rate (ml/min) at 1 cm soil depth at study plot, 2007

WR.3CM.07 = water infiltration rate (ml/min) at 3 cm soil depth at study plot, 2007

Tree.Mg.ha.07 = tree biomass (Mg/ha) at study plot, 2007

Tree.m2.ha.07 = tree basal area (m2/ha) at study plot, 2007

Tree.ph.07 = trees per hectare at study plot, 2007

Tree.Mortality.07 = percent tree mortality at study plot, 2007

GR.Crown.07 = percent green tree crowns at study plot, 2007

BR.Crown.07 = percent brown tree crowns at study plot, 2007

BL.Crown.07 = percent black tree crowns at study plot, 2007

Sapling.Mg.ha.07 = sapling biomass (Mg/ha) at study plot, 2007

Sapling.m2.ha.07 = sapling basal area (m2/ha) at study plot, 2007

Sapling.ph.07 = saplings per hectare at study plot, 2007

Sapling.Mortality.07 = percent sapling mortality at study plot, 2007

Tree.stump.m2.ha.07 = tree stump basal area (m2/ha) at study plot, 2007

Tree.stump.ph.07 = tree stumps per hectare at study plot, 2007

Sapling.stump.m2.ha.07 = sapling stump basal area (m2/ha) at study plot, 2007

Sapling.stump.ph.07 = sapling stumps per hectare at study plot, 2007

Seedling.ph.07 = seedlings per hectare at study plot, 2007



Filename: D_megafire_daily_burn_area_data.csv
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.
Variables include:

Date = date of measurement for daily burn area calculated from fire progression maps (mm/dd/yy yy where mm = month, dd = day, and yyyy = year)

Julian_Date = julian date of measurement

Secesh_ha_Burned = daily hectares burned in the Secesh Meadows area

Warm_Lake_ha_Burned = daily hectares burned in the Warm Lake area

Hectares_Burned = daily hectares burned on the East Zone and Cascade megafires
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Contact_Person: Andrew T. Hudak
Contact_Organization: USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station
Contact_Position: Research Forester
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City: Moscow
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