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Author(s):
Theresa B. Jain, Molly Juillerat, Jonathan Sandquist, Mike Ford, Brad Sauer, Robert J. Mitchell, Scott McAvoy, Justin Hanley, Jon David
Year Published:

Cataloging Information

Topic(s):
Management Approaches
Smoke Monitoring
Ecosystem(s):
Ponderosa pine woodland/savanna, Sagebrush steppe, Lower montane/foothills/valley grassland

NRFSN number: 11237
FRAMES RCS number: 12495
Record updated:

This photograph handbook describes characteristics and burn severity of a dry forested and grassland mosaic that burned within the last decade. We show photographs of different burned and unburned sites to help compare fire occurrence in similar stands. The handbook provides local land managers with a quick, inexpensive, and efficient way to evaluate effects of prescribed fire, wildfire, or a combination of the two, based on current conditions of unburned sites. This handbook can be used as a communication, calibration, or monitoring tool. It also contains a CD (RMRS-RP-67) that documents the vegetation and soil effects from prescribed, wild, and combined fire effects in our study.

Citation

Jain, Theresa; Juillerat, Molly; Sandquist, Jonathan; Ford, Mike; Sauer, Brad; Mitchell, Robert; McAvoy, Scott; Hanley, Justin; David, Jon. 2007. Photographic handbook for comparing burned and unburned sites within a dry forested and grassland mosiac: a tool for communication, calibration, and monitoring post-fire effects. Gen. Tech. Rep.RMRS-GTR-197. Fort Collins, CO: USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. 57 p.