Dataset for 2013 Creek Fire Research Points, Pre- and Post-Fire Data, U.S. Geological Survey

The practice of fire suppression across the western United States over the past century has led to dense forests, and when coupled with drought has contributed to an increase in large and destructive wildfires. Forest management efforts aimed at reducing flammable fuels through various fuel treatments can help to restore frequent fire regimes and increase forest resilience. Our research examines how different fuel treatments influenced burn severity and post-fire vegetative stand dynamics on the San Carlos Apache Reservation, in east-central Arizona, U.S.A. Our methods included the use of multitemporal remote sensing data and cloud computing to evaluate burn severity and post-fire vegetation conditions as well as...

Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: Arizona, Burn Severity, Creek Fire, Ecology, Forest Management, All tags... Forestry, Fuel Treatments, GIS, Geography, Land Use Change, Multitemporal Kauth Thomas, Remote Sensing, Remote Sensing, San Carlos Apache Reservation, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Wildfire, Fewer tags

Field-informed plant functional cover and model predicted fire behavior, as well as digitally-sourced soils, weather/climate, and topography information related to fuels treatments observed between 2018 and 2021 in southwestern Idaho

Data includes functional group cover of annual grasses, perennial grasses and shrubs, and model predicted fire behavior for the years of 2018-2021.

Categories: Data; Tags: Botany, Climate, Climatology, Community ecology, Ecology, All tags... Ecology, Exotic annual grasses, Fire modeling, Fires, Fuel treatments, Habitat alteration and disturbance, Idaho, Land Use Change, Mathematical modeling, Oregon, Remote Sensing, Shrubland ecosystems, Snake River Plain, Soil, Soil Sciences, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Vegetation, Weather, Wildfire science, biota, environment, Fewer tags

Linking Forest Landscape Management and Climate Change to the Conservation of Riparian Habitat in the Grand Canyon

Northern Arizona University will study how forest treatment practices and climate change may impact water balance across the Kaibab Plateau and critical habitats in lower elevations of the Grand Canyon. The project will include use of a forest landscape simulation model to examine how fuel treatments and prescribed burning will affect the resilience of forest ecosystems. The project will also address whether those activities would benefit the conservation of downstream riparian habitat by mitigating anticipated changes in the stream flow and water quality.The model will assist managers in developing, adaptation strategies for the conservation of riparian habitats by testing a range of realistic fuel treatment and...

Categories: Data, Project; Types: Map Service, OGC WFS Layer, OGC WMS Layer, OGC WMS Service; Tags: AZ-01, Arizona, Arizona, Conservation NGOs, Decision Support, All tags... Federal resource managers, Grand Canyon, Grand Canyon, Informing Conservation Delivery, Kaibab Plateau, Kaibab Plateau, LCC, LCC Network Science Catalog, Project, SRLCC, Tribes, aquatic, aquatic, climate change, climate change, completed, fire, fire, forest restoration, forest restoration, fuel treatments, fuel treatments, prescribed fire, prescribed fire, riparian, riparian, riparian habitat, riparian habitat, simulation models, simulation models, stream flow, stream flow, water, water, water balance, water balance, water quality, water quality, Fewer tags