Resource Catalog
Media
- Carol M. EwellUS Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Region (Region 5)
- Ben NewburnUS Forest Service, Vegetation Management Solutions (VMS)
- Becky L. EstesUS Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station
- Shelly CrookUS Forest Service, Stanislaus National Forest
- Tim KlineCalifornia Fire Science Consortium
- California Fire Science Consortium
This webinar presents information gathered by a team tasked with designing and describing the desired fire management and fuel treatment goals within the Rim Fire. This report described a foundation-type framework for fire and fuel management activities, consistent with the STF Forest Plan and the Sierra Nevada Forest Plan Amendment (SNFPA), to guide upcoming fuel removal, reforestation, and other post-Rim Fire ecosystem restoration activities on the landscape. This strategy was focused on working toward desired conditions that are 1) resilient to the predictable occurrence of future fires, 2) provides sustainable habitat for native biotic communities and species, 3) minimizes the potential for large scale impacts to local communities, watersheds, and ecosystems by restoring a more natural mosaic of fire occurrence and 4) is implementable given the limited resources available to the Forest.
Cataloging Information
- 2013 Rim Fire
- burn severity
- CBI - composite burn index
- CWD - coarse woody debris
- ERC - Energy Release Component
- fire management
- fire progression
- fire return interval
- FlamMap
- FSim
- fuel treatment
- landscape planning
- MTBS - Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity
- resilience
- topographic effects
- wind effects