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Calculate the Total Fuel Loading: Digital Photo Series

Calculate the Total Fuel Loading: Digital Photo Series Shrubs = 3 tons/ac Litter = 4 tons/ac Duff = 10 tons/ac Woody Material = 2 tons/ac Crown mass = 18 tons/ac Surface Fuel Loading (ex duff) = 9 tons/ac Total Fuel Loading = 37 tons/ac

What is the Species and Total Fuel Loading?

1. Predominately tall trees and low-lying shrubs/cwd with very little ladder fuels

2. Predominately tall trees and low-lying shrubs/cwd with very little ladder fuels

3. Predominately tall trees and low-lying shrubs/cwd with very little ladder fuels

4. Predominately tall trees and low-lying shrubs/cwd with very little ladder fuels

5. Predominately tall trees and low-lying shrubs/cwd with very little ladder fuels

6. Predominately tall trees and low-lying shrubs/cwd with very little ladder fuels

7. Predominately tall trees and low-lying shrubs/cwd with very little ladder fuels

8. Predominately tall trees and low-lying shrubs/cwd with very little ladder fuels

9. Predominately tall trees and low-lying shrubs/cwd with very little ladder fuels

10. Predominately tall trees and low-lying shrubs/cwd with very little ladder fuels

1. What we Know: Lodge pole Pine Stems per acre = 638 Mean DBH (>4”) = 7.7” Mean Height (>4”) = 32.4’ Woody Fuel = 17.8 tons/ac Predominately tall trees and low-lying shrubs/cwd with very little ladder fuels

2. What we Know: Quaking Aspen Stems per acre = 1,224 Mean DBH (>4”)= 7.8” Mean Height (>4”) = 44.1’ Woody Fuel = 30.5 tons/ac Predominately tall trees and low-lying shrubs/cwd with very little ladder fuels

3. What we Know: Quaking Aspen Stems per acre = 1,361 Mean DBH (>4”) = 8.3” Mean Height (>4”) = 47.6’ Woody Fuel = 17.8 tons/ac Predominately tall trees and low-lying shrubs/cwd with very little ladder fuels

4. What we Know: White, Red, and Jack Pine Stems per acre = 14,180 Mean DBH (>4”) = 8.5” Mean Height (>4”) = 53.4’ Woody Fuel = 4.6 tons/ac Predominately tall trees and low-lying shrubs/cwd with very little ladder fuels

5. What we Know: ABGR/LAOC/PSME/PICO Stems per acre = 915 Mean DBH (>4”) = 8.1” Mean Height (>4”) = 49.2’ Woody Fuel = 15.1 tons/ac Predominately tall trees and low-lying shrubs/cwd with very little ladder fuels

6. What we Know: Hawaiian Rainforest Stems per acre = 2100 Mean DBH (>4”) = 2.9” Mean Height (>4”) = 25.1’ Woody Fuel = 0.64 tons/ac Predominately tall trees and low-lying shrubs/cwd with very little ladder fuels

7. What we Know: Chestnut Oak (GA) Stems per acre = 1500 Mean DBH (>4”) = 9.2” Mean Height (>4”) = 56.4’ Woody Fuel = 8.3 tons/ac Predominately tall trees and low-lying shrubs/cwd with very little ladder fuels

Chamise Chaparral (CA) Stems per acre = 3,878 8. Predominately tall trees and low-lying shrubs/cwd with very little ladder fuels What we Know: Chamise Chaparral (CA) Stems per acre = 3,878

PIPO in Juniper/Sage Woodland Stems per acre = 0 9. What we Know: PIPO in Juniper/Sage Woodland Stems per acre = 0 Mean DBH (>4”) = 7.8” Mean Height (>4”) = 23.0’ Woody Fuel = 0.28 tons/ac Predominately tall trees and low-lying shrubs/cwd with very little ladder fuels

10. What we Know: Big Sagebrush Mean DRC = 1.2” Mean Height = 1.2’ Predominately tall trees and low-lying shrubs/cwd with very little ladder fuels What we Know: Big Sagebrush Mean DRC = 1.2” Mean Height = 1.2’ Woody Fuel = 0.70 tons/ac