Stereo Photo Series for Quantifying Natural Fuels in the Prairie Forest and Northwestern Great Plains. Final Report for JFSP Project No. 03-3-3-46

摘要

The natural fuels stereo photo series is a collection of geo-referenced data and photographs that display a range of natural conditions, fuel loadings, and other fuelbed characteristics in a wide variety of forest-, woodland-, shrub-, and grass-dominated ecosystem types. The photo series are useful tools for quickly and inexpensively evaluating vegetation and fuel conditions in the field. The objectives of this project were to continue the development of the Natural Fuels Photo Series to include a series that covers the Prairie Forest and Northwestern Great Plains region of eastern Montana. Discussions with the Bureau of Land Management and the USDA Forest Service concluded that a photo series volume needed to be developed and published that included two fuelbed types: (1) sagebrush with grass and (2) ponderosa pine-juniper. Eleven sagebrush and grass sites and twelve ponderosa pine and juniper types were located, photographed and inventoried in central and eastern Montana. Field data was reduced and analyzed. The major deliverable of this project, a camera-ready Natural Photos Series Volume X has been completed and has been sent to the printer. The photo series will be available for distribution from the Pacific Northwest Research Station free of charge by June 2007.