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Figure 8 | Fire Ecology

Figure 8

From: Fire Regime Attributes of Wildland Fires in Yosemite National Park, USA

Figure 8

Example prescribed fire, wildfire, and wildland fire use fire severity maps. The prescribed South Fork Fire burned 1,404 ha in 2002. It has a large area of low severity fire typical of prescribed burns in Yosemite. The Tuolumne wildfire burned 1,484 ha in 2003 and has large patches of high severity. The 1988 wildland fire use East LeConte Fire burned 1,547 ha and has a mosaic of unchanged, low, moderate and high severity patches.

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