Meadow Prescribed Fire

Size: 73 acres

Date(s): May 7, 1999

Goals:

•  Reduce herbaceous fuel loading in the native prairie by at least 30% immediate postburn

•  Reduce dead and down (1, 10, 100-hr.) fuels under coniferous canopy 30-50% immediate postburn

•  Decrease non-native herbaceous density and relative cover by at least 25% 1 year postburn

•  Limit overstory tree (> 6” dbh) mortality to less than 20% 2 year postburn

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Location of the Meadow prescribed fire.