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Table 1 Description of fuel treatment and wildfire case studies

From: Landscape-scale fuel treatment effectiveness: lessons learned from wildland fire case studies in forests of the western United States and Great Lakes region

Ecoregion(s) EPA level III

Case study reference

Wildfire name and year

Acres burned

Treatment type(s)

Dominant vegetation type(s)

Arizona/New Mexico Mtns

Jackson et al. 2011

Wallow 2011

538,049

Prescribed fire, managed wildfire, commercial harvest

Subalpine forest

Arizona/New Mexico Mtns

Keller et al. 2011

Wallow 2011

538,049

Thinning

Dry mixed conifer

Cascades; Blue Mtns

Harbert et al. 2007

Monument 2007

GW 2007

Egley Complex 2007

53,556

1461

140,360

Thinning, pile burning, prescribed fire, previous wildfire

Dry mixed conifer, grass, and shrubs

Idaho Batholith

Graham et al. 2009

Cascade Complex 2007

500,000

Thinning, pruning, mastication, prescribed fire

Subalpine forest, dry mixed conifer

North Cascades

Gray and Prichard 2015

Tripod 2006

Octopus Mtn 2012

175,184

3048

Previous wildfire

Subalpine forest

Northern Lakes and Forests

Fites et al. 2007b

Ham Lake 2007

Cavity Lake 2006

75,000

31,500

Thinning, prescribed fire

Mixed conifer

Sierra Nevada

Crook et al. 2015

Rim 2013

257,314

Thinning, mastication, pile burning, managed wildfire, prescribed fire

Shrubs, woodland, mixed conifer

Sierra Nevada

Dailey et al. 2008

Moonlight 2007

64,997

Thinning, salvage harvest, mastication, prescribed fire

Mixed conifer

Sierra Nevada

Ewell et al. 2012

Lion 2011

20,674

Previous wildfire

Mixed conifer

Sierra Nevada

Fites et al. 2007a

Antelope Complex 2007

23,420

Thinning, mastication, prescribed fire

Mixed conifer

Sierra Nevada

Murphy et al. 2007

Angora 2007

3100

Thinning, pile burning, prescribed fire

Mixed conifer

Sierra Nevada; Cascades

Murphy et al. 2010

20 wildfires 1999–2009a

Varied

Thinning, mastication, pile burning, prescribed fire, lop/scatter

Dry mixed conifer, shrubs

Northwestern Great Plains

Jain et al. 2007

Germain 2003

Indian 2003

66,496

33,594

Prescribed fire

Dry mixed conifer, grass

S. California Mtns

Henson 2007

Day 2006

Zaca 2007

159,713

241,846

Thinning, pile burning, prescribed fire

Shrubs, dry mixed conifer

S. California Mtns

Rogers et al. 2008

Grass Valley 2007

1242

Thinning, chipping, pruning, prescribed fire

Shrubs, dry mixed conifer

S. California Mtns

Reiner et al. 2014

Mountain 2013

27,531

Thinning, mastication, pruning, pile burning, prescribed fire

Shrubs, mixed conifer

S. Rockies

Graham et al. 2012

Fourmile Canyon 2010

6,181

Thinning, chipping, pile burning

Dry mixed conifer

S. Rockies

Graham et al. 2003

Hayman 2002

138,000

Thinning, prescribed fire, previous wildfire

Dry mixed conifer

  1. aTwenty wildfires were evaluated that occurred from 1999 to 2009: Dow (1999), Treasure (2001), Stream (2001), Cone (2002), Boulder (2006), Antelope Complex (2007), Davis (2007), Calpine (2007), Moonlight (2007), Franks (2007), Irish (2007), Peterson Complex (2008), Rich (2008), Butte (2009), Silver (2009), Milford Grade (2009), Brown (2009), Sugarloaf (2009), Friend-Darnell (2008), Ponderosa (2009)