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Technology Helps Measure Prescribed Fire Objectives
Yosemite National Park staff take measurements to analyze burn objectives.
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Fire effects monitoring crews (FEMO) from North Cascades National Park, Grand Teton National Park, and the Fremont-Winema National Forest assisted Yosemite National Park fire crews in measuring post-fire effects of the 2020 Blue Jay and 2021 Lukens fire footprints. Crews measured post-fire effects to ensure that the park is meeting fire management objectives. The park managed both the 6,900-acre Blue Jay fire and 906-acre Lukens fire for multiple objectives, including resource benefits.
Staff use terrestrial Lidar device to measure forest conditions after a prescribed fire.
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Yosemite Fire, in collaboration with the Physical Sciences branch applied and received a Fire Research Reserve Grant to implement a new monitoring method using a terrestrial Lidar device that measures forest conditions. Data collected will assist in streamlining approaches to measure reductions in fuel loading and other resource objectives.