A major concern of land man­agers in the United States is the response of watersheds to weather after a wildfire. With an ever-expanding wildland-urban interface (WUI), land managers must be cognizant of potential damage to private property and other values at risk. In the United States, land-management agen­cies from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) deploy Burned Area Emergency Response (BAER) teams to address these concerns and to 'prescribe and implement emergency treat­ ments to minimize threats to life or property or to stabilize and prevent unacceptable degradation to natu­ral and cultural resources resulting from the effects of a fire' (USDA Forest Service 2004, p. 17). BAER teams’ objective is emergency sta­bilization of burned areas, rather than long-term restoration of the landscape after a fire.