2011 Grand Canyon Fire Ecology Annual Report
Bunn W, Brannfors L, Peach J. 2011. 2011 Grand Canyon Fire Ecology Annual Report. National Park Service. Grand Canyon, AZ
The 2011 season brought many challenges that were met by the Grand Canyon National Park (GRCA) Fire Ecology Program. The season featured the monitoring of 55 Fire Monitoring Handbook (FMH) plots that were completed while crewmembers participated in a wide variety of opportunities supporting incidents nationally and locally. The continuation of the Rapid Assessment Protocol (RAP) pilot sampling resulted in 25 plot post-burn reads. To add to the season’s accomplishments, 104 Composite Burn Index (CBI) plots were visited to assess burn severity within the 5 planned and unplanned fire incidents from 2010. New to the program this year was the incorporation of 21 Inventory & Monitoring (I&M) plot visits to further the expansion of GRCA’s monitoring program data. Full staffing within the Fire Ecology Program for all of 2011 produced an efficient work environment and freed the Fire Ecologist to concentrate on analysis, outreach, and larger-scale tasks.
- Type
- Unpublished Report
- Authors
- Bunn, Windy; Brannfors, Li; Peach, Jasper
- Date of Issue
- 2011
- Publisher
- National Park Service
- Units
- FIEC , GRCA
- Keywords
- Arizona, Biota, Burn Severity, CBI, Colorado Plateau , Ecology, Environment, FIRE, Fire Effects, FMH, Grand Canyon National Park, I&M, Inventory And Monitoring, Kaibab Plateau, Monitoring, Prescribed Fire, RAP, rapid assessment, Southern Colorado Plateau Network, Vegetation, Wildfire
- Subjects
- Ecological Framework: Landscapes | Fire and Fuel Dynamics | Fire and Fuel Dynamics