Course


Title

FireWorks for the Northern Rocky Mountains and Northern Cascades - H19: History of Mixed-severity Fire
Course Type: FireWorks activities
Availability: Public access
Author(s): FireWorks Educational Program
Contact(s):
  • Ilana L. Abrahamson
    US Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Fire, Fuel, and Smoke Science Program
Date Created: July 17, 2018
Ongoing

Cataloging Information

Keyword(s):
  • historical fire regime
  • mixed severity fires
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Record Last Modified: February 17, 2020
FRAMES Record Number: 56202

Description

Lesson Overview: Students use the stand history diagrams that they assembled in the 2 previous activities to learn about mixed-severity fire regimes. They check their skill in identifying historical fire regimes by interpreting stand history diagrams. Finally, in the assessment, they describe or depict the appearance of a forest that has had a historical regime of low-, mixed-severity, or stand-replacing fire.

Lesson Goals: Understand the nature of low-severity, stand-replacing, and mixed-severity fire regimes. Be able to interpret stand history diagrams showing these regimes and to envision a forest stand based on its fire history.

Objectives:

  • Students can identify historical fire regimes from stand history diagrams.
  • Students can describe or depict the appearance of aforest that has experienced a specifichistorical fire regime.