The development of a Southern Appalachian Mountain fuels photo series

T. Adam Coates; Thomas A. Waldrop; Helen H. Mohr; Todd F. Hutchinson

The development of a Southern Appalachian Mountain fuels photo series

Informally Refereed

Authors:	T. Adam Coates, Thomas A. Waldrop, Helen H. Mohr, Todd F. Hutchinson
Year:	2020
Type:	General Technical Report (GTR)
Station:	Southern Research Station
Source:	e–Gen. Tech. Rep. SRS–253. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Research Station

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Abstract

The use of a fuels photo series to characterize potential combustibles and adequately anticipate and predict potential wildfire and prescribed fire behavior and effects in a given area is a practice that began nearly 50 years ago. These photo series are regional in nature and have tended to characterize the variability in Western United States fuel complexes in finer detail than Eastern United States fuel complexes. Managers and practitioners have long expressed great interest in a more site-specific, Southern Appalachian Mountain fuels photo series. In this article, we present the developmental framework for a new Southern Appalachian Mountain fuels photo series that was created in 2019 (Coates and others 2019).

Parent Publication

Proceedings of the 20th Biennial Southern Silvicultural Research Conference

Keywords

fuels, photo series, Southern Appalachian Mountains

Citation

Coates, T. Adam; Waldrop, Thomas A.; Mohr, Helen H.; Hutchinson, Todd F. 2020. The development of a Southern Appalachian Mountain fuels photo series. In: Bragg, Don C.; Koerth, Nancy E.; Holley, A. Gordon, eds. 2020. Proceedings of the 20th biennial southern silvicultural research conference. e Gen. Tech. Rep. SRS 253. Asheville, NC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Southern Research Station: 69-73.