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A century of fire exclusion across many forest types in the western U.S. has resulted in unforeseen changes, including high fuel accumulations, high densities of trees, and increasing dominance of fire-intolerant species. These changes are particularly acute in forests that historically experienced high frequency and low severity fires. In response, the NPS Pacific-West region supports a large prescribed fire program to reduce understory fuels and forest density. Prescribed fire has been generally successful at reducing understory fuels and threats of catastrophic fire, and treated stands are expected to be more resistant to future wildfire. Less well understood is how well prescribed fire confers resistance to...
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Project;
Tags: 2016,
California Landscape Conservation Cooperative,
Datasets/Database,
Federal resource managers,
Informing Conservation Delivery, All tags...
LCC,
LCC Network Science Catalog,
Project,
Publication,
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Website,
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These data provide on the ground estimates of burn severity as estimated by the Composite Burn Index (CBI). Data were collected between 1996 and 2018 for fires that burned during this time period. Landsat imagery was used to develop regression relationships between the Normalized Burn Ratio (NBR) and differenced NBR (dNBR).
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Geography,
Land Use Change,
Remote Sensing,
USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), All tags...
United States,
biota,
fire damage,
fires,
location,
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