Development of Coarse-scale Spatial Data for Wildland Fire and Fuel Management

ene 2002 · U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station

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The objective of this study was to provide managers with national-level data on current conditions of vegetation and fuels developed from ecologically based methods to address these questions: How do current vegetation and fuels differ from those that existed historically? Where on the landscape do vegetation and fuels differ from historical levels? In particular, where are high fuel accumulations? When considered at a coarse scale, which areas estimated to have high fuel accumulations represent the highest priorities for treatment?