1996 Grand Canyon Prescribed Fire Annual Summary
Schroeder J and Kerr K. 1997. 1996 Grand Canyon Prescribed Fire Annual Summary. National Park Service. Grand Canyon, AZ
This report summarizes accomplishments in Grand Canyon National Park’s prescribed fire program during the 1996 season. Statistics from wildland fire operations, prescribed natural fires, management ignited prescribed fires, fuel and fire weather monitoring, and fire effects monitoring are included. All scheduled Management Ignited Prescribed Fires were postponed due to a dry winter and spring, but preparation work for other burns was completed instead. Later in the season, the staff managed to get over 1600 acres burned. PNF designations were also compromised due to the low Palmer Drought Indices extending into October as well as the high national fire preparedness levels throughout most of the fire season. The Fire Effects crew worked hard to install 18 new monitoring plots during 1996, increasing the number of plots by over 25% for a total of 70 plots. Again, all plot re-reads were completed on schedule and the crew also assisted local researchers in efforts to install vegetation monitoring plots for a fire history study on the North Rim. The Fuels crew created helpful graphs of seasonal fuel moisture trends on the North and South Rims and shared this information with neighboring agencies. For the first time, weather information was used to correct fuel values generated by the National Fire Danger Rating System. In addition, crewmembers experienced a number of training opportunities and were involved in numerous out-of-park assignments in both wildfire and prescribed fire operations.
- Type
- Unpublished Report
- Authors
- Schroeder, Jim; Kerr, Ken
- Date of Issue
- 1997-08-31
- Publisher
- National Park Service
- Units
- FIEC , GRCA
- Keywords
- Arizona, Biota, Colorado Plateau , Ecology, Environment, FIRE, Fire Effects, fire weather, FMH, fuel moisture sampling, Grand Canyon National Park, Kaibab Plateau, Monitoring, Prescribed Fire, Vegetation, Wildfire
- Subjects
- Ecological Framework: Landscapes | Fire and Fuel Dynamics | Fire and Fuel Dynamics