Southwest U.S. Mechanically Treated Chaparral Photo Series: Species list

Description

Accurate, complete fuels data are critical for making fuel management decisions and for predicting fire behavior and fire effects. A fuel photo series is a useful reference that allows natural resource managers to quickly quantify fuel and vegetation properties by comparing on site conditions to a series of photos showing a range of calculated fuel loads within a similar vegetative community. While there are photo series available for a wide range of ecosystem types nationwide, this type of information is lacking for natural and mechanically treated chaparral. The most likely reason for this information gap is the difficulty in collecting and photographing fuels in these dense fuel types.

Resources

Name Format Description Link
55 Landing page for access to the data http://dx.doi.org/10.5066/F7D798F9
55 The metadata original format https://data.usgs.gov/datacatalog/metadata/USGS.55ba7e73e4b05b91f6399fe5.xml

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  • mechanical-treatment
  • usgs-55ba7e73e4b05b91f6399fe5
  • fuel-loads
  • chaparral

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