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Title

2007 Caribou Hills Fire: fire behavior analysis and custom fuel model development for the Kenai Peninsula
Document Type: Report
Author(s): Wade Wahrenbrock
Publication Year: 2009

Cataloging Information

Keyword(s):
  • Caribou Hills Fire
  • FARSITE - Fire Area Simulator
  • fire behavior analysis
  • fuel model
  • Kenai Peninsula
  • spruce bark beetle
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Record Last Modified: July 9, 2018
FRAMES Record Number: 20009

Description

[from the text] Over 1.4 million acres of bark beetle insect activity was recorded (Burnside 2001) on the Kenai Peninsuladuring the 1990's. This "high intensity" beetle infestation dramatically altered the composition and structure of spruce forests in affected areas. Ever since the beetle attack episode occurred, dynamic change in the fire regime has been experienced within the disturbance area. This large-scale forest disturbance has created a unique fuel complex. The current fuel bed composition is not well represented by any of the standard "NFFL" fuel models. Nor is this dead jack-straw fuel configurationreplicated by models in the Canadian Fire Behavior Prediction System.

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Citation:
Wahrenbrock, Wade W. 2009. 2007 Caribou Hills Fire: fire behavior analysis and custom fuel model development for the Kenai Peninsula. Soldotna, AK: Kenai Peninsula Borough, Spruce Bark Beetle Mitigation Program. 14 p.