The Wallow Fire and its effects on mixed conifer forest: A comparison with reference conditions. Special report to the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests, USDA Forest Service, Region 3.

Roccaforte, John Paul (2013) The Wallow Fire and its effects on mixed conifer forest: A comparison with reference conditions. Special report to the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests, USDA Forest Service, Region 3. Technical Report. NAU Ecological Restoration Institute, Flagstaff, United States.

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Abstract

Portions of mixed conifer forests have undergone changes in disturbance regimes, species composition, and forest structure since European settlement and have been impacted by recent landscape-scale fires which have burned large patches with high severity. The Wallow Fire, the largest fire recorded in Arizona, burned a total of 217,741 ha (538,050 ac) in Arizona and New Mexico in the summer of 2011. The purpose of this study was to evaluate high-severity burn patch characteristics in the Wallow fire and determine if they were within the historical range of variability (HRV) for southwestern mixed conifer forests. We used a spatial pattern analysis program to evaluate patch metrics by severity for mixed conifer forests within the Wallow Fire perimeter.

Item Type:	Monograph (Technical Report)
Related URLs:	Organisation
Keywords:	ERI Library, report, Apache-Sitgreaves, Wallow Fire, Mixed Conifer
Subjects:	S Agriculture > SD Forestry
Department/Unit:	Research Centers > Ecological Restoration Institute
Date Deposited:	26 Aug 2016 21:55
URI:	http://openknowledge.nau.edu/id/eprint/2534

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