Index Catalog // ScholarsArchive@OSU

Start Over

Filtering by: Alternative title ssim PNW 22 Contributor Pacific Southwest Research Station Decade 1990-1999

Evaluation of the effects of silvicultural and fuels treatments on potential fire behaviour in Sierra Nevada mixed-conifer forests

Creator:

Stephens, Scott Lewis

Abstract:

Fire suppression has increased fuel loads and fuel continuity in mixed-conifer ecosystems, resulting in forest structures that are vulnerable to catastrophic fire. This paper models fire behaviour in a mixed-conifer forest and investigates how silvicultural and fuels treatments affect potential fire behaviour. The computer program FARSITE was used to spatially...

Resource Type:

Article

Full Text:

. Scorch height varied from 22 to 40 m and the resulting overstory damage would kill many large trees, in