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

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PJ persistent woodland, no treatment

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All, PJ Phase III, No treatment

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PJ persistent woodland, No treatment

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Other sage, No treatment

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Overview_Description:

Entity_and_Attribute_Overview:

Below you will find a list and description of the files included in this data publication.


VARIABLE DESCRIPTION FILE (1)

1. \Data\_variable_descriptions.csv: Comma-separated values (CSV) file containing a list and description of variables found in all data files. (A description of these variables is also provided in the metadata below.)

Columns include:

Filename = name of data file
Variable = name of variable
Description = description of variable


DATA FILES (2)

1. \Data\TRG_Fuel_Treatments_2023-06-16.tif: Georeferenced (GeoTIFF) raster file (and associated files) containing aggregated version of \Data\TRG_Full_Set_2023-06-16.tif that provides more broadly defined Treatment Response Group (TRG) groupings.

Attributes include:

Value = Unique numeric values contained in each raster cell. Category values correspond to:

1 = Mountain big sage, no pinyon/juniper (PJ), high to moderate resilience & high to moderately low resistance, prescribed fire
2 = Mountain big sage, PJ Phase I&II, high to moderate resilience & high to moderately low resistance, prescribed fire
3 = Mountain big sage, PJ Phase I&II, moderately low resilience & high to moderately low resistance, mechanical treatment
4 = Wyoming (WY) or basin big sage, no PJ, high to moderate resilience & high to moderately low resistance, prescribed fire
5 = WY or basin big sage, PJ Phase I&II, high to moderate resilience & high to moderately low resistance, prescribed fire
6 = WY or basin big sage, PJ Phase I&II, moderately low resilience & high to moderately low resistance, mechanical treatment
7 = Low sage, PJ Phase I&II, moderately low resilience & high to moderately low resistance, mechanical treatment
8 = Black sage, PJ Phase I&II, moderately low resilience & high to moderately low resistance, mechanical treatment
9 = Mixed low sage, PJ Phase I&II, moderately low resilience & high to moderately low resistance, mechanical treatment
10 = All sage, PJ Phase III, no treatment
11 = PJ persistent woodland, no treatment
12 = All big sage, low resilience & resistance, no treatment
13 = Mixed low, low, & black sage, no PJ, low fuels, no treatment
14 = Not sage or PJ, no treatment


2. \Data\TRG_Full_Set_2023-06-16.tif: GeoTIFF raster file (and associated files) containing a detailed version of Treatment Response Groups across the study area.

Attributes include:

Value = Unique numeric values contained in each raster cell. Category values correspond to:

1 = Mountain big sage, no PJ, high to moderate resilience & high to moderately low resistance, prescribed fire
2 = Mountain big sage, no PJ, low resilience or resistance, no treatment
3 = Mountain big sage, PJ Phase I&II, high to moderate resilience & high to moderately low resistance, prescribed fire
4 = Mountain big sage, PJ Phase I&II, moderately low resilience & high to moderately low resistance, mechanical treatment
5 = Basin big sage, no PJ, high to moderate resilience & high to moderately low resistance, prescribed fire
6 = Basin big sage, no PJ, low resilience or resistance, no treatment
7 = Basin big sage, PJ Phase I&II, high to moderate resilience & high to moderately low resistance, prescribed fire
8 = Basin big sage, PJ Phase I&II, moderately low resilience & high to moderately low resistance, mechanical treatment
9 = WY/basin sage, no PJ, high to moderate resilience & high to moderately low resistance, prescribed fire
10 = WY/basin big sage, no PJ, low resilience or resistance, no treatment
11 = WY/basin big sage, PJ Phase I&II, high to moderate resilience & high to moderately low resistance, prescribed fire
12 = WY/basin big sage, PJ Phase I&II, moderately low resilience & high to moderately low resistance, mechanical treatment
13 = Wyoming big sage, no PJ, high to moderate resilience & high to moderately low resistance, prescribed fire
14 = Wyoming big sage, no PJ, low resilience or resistance, no treatment
15 = Wyoming big sage, PJ Phase I&II, high to moderate resilience & high to moderately low resistance, prescribed fire
16 = Wyoming big sage, PJ Phase I&II, moderately low resilience & high to moderately low resistance, mechanical treatment
17 = Mixed low sage, no PJ, low fuels, no treatment
18 = Mixed low sage, PJ Phase Iⅈ high to moderately low resilience & high to moderately low resistance, mechanical treatment
19 = Low sage, no PJ, low fuels, no treatment
20 = Low sage, PJ Phase I&II, high to moderately low resilience & high to moderately low resistance, mechanical treatment
21 = Black sage, no PJ, low fuels, no treatment
22 = Black sage, PJ Phase I&II, high to moderately low resilience & high to moderately low resistance, mechanical treatment
23 = All, PJ Phase III, no treatment
24 = All, PJ Phase I&II, low resilience or resistance, no treatment
25 = PJ persistent woodland, no treatment
26 = Other sage, no treatment
27 = Not sage or PJ, no treatment

Entity_and_Attribute_Detail_Citation:

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 and https://www.fs.usda.gov/research/treesearch/67189

Metadata_Reference_Information:

Metadata_Date: 20240118

Metadata_Contact:

Contact_Information:

Contact_Organization_Primary:

Contact_Organization: USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station

Contact_Person: Karen C. Short

Contact_Address:

Address_Type: mailing and physical

Address: 800 E. Beckwith Ave.

City: Missoula

State_or_Province: MT

Postal_Code: 59801

Country: USA

Contact_Voice_Telephone: 406-329-4973

Contact_Electronic_Mail_Address: karen.c.short@usda.gov

Contact Instructions: This contact information was current as of original publication date. For current information see Contact Us page on: https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS.

Metadata_Standard_Name: FGDC Biological Data Profile of the Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata

Metadata_Standard_Version: FGDC-STD-001.1-1999