Kings Mountain National Military Park FFI Fire Effects Monitoring Data, NPS (2022)

Matt Wood. 2023. Kings Mountain National Military Park FFI Fire Effects Monitoring Data, NPS (2022). National Park Service

Fire effects monitoring data collected at Kings Mountain National Military Park in South Carolina. The data were collected during spring/summer/fall field seasons by the fire effects monitoring crew out of Great Smoky Mountains National Park from 1999 - 2022. Data collected from 50 x 20 m forest plots include post burn char height and scorch measurements for overstory trees and severity ratings for substrate and vegetation, tree inventory to obtain density and basal area, fuel load using Brown's method for inventorying surface fuels and biomass, seedling density, as well as cover point method along 50 m transects for estimating shrub, tree seedling, and herbaceous plant cover. Data collected from fuels transects are 50 ft Brown's transects for inventorying surface fuels and biomass. Photo points are associated with all plot and transect data, contact Fire Ecologist for more information.

Type
Generic Dataset
Authors
Matt Wood
Date of Issue
2023-02-22
Publisher
National Park Service
Units
FIEC , KIMO
Keywords
Biota, Environment, FFI, FIRE, fire effects monitoring, KIMO, Kings Mountain National Military Park, South Carolina, Southeast, Vegetation

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