Table 1 Published fire history data for each of the three study areas: Bob Marshall (BM), Selway-Bitter-root (SB), and Frank Church (FC). Estimates of present-day fire rotations are indicated with an asterisk (*). Other estimates of fire rotation, derived from contemporary fire history studies, are considered historical rotations for the purposes of this paper.
From: Characterizing Fire-on-Fire Interactions in Three Large Wilderness Areas
Source | Study area | Fire rotation (yr) | Fire regime description |
|---|---|---|---|
Arno, 1980 | BM | 40 to 150 | Mixed severity—high to low frequency |
Barrett et al. 1991 | BM | 25 to 75 | Mixed severity—high frequency |
|  | BM | 120 to 350 | Stand replacing—low frequency |
Brown et al. 1994 | SB | 54 to 197 | Stand replacing—low frequency |
|  | SB | 22 to 56 | Low- to mixed-severity—high frequency |
Kipfmueller, 2003 | SB | 139 to 341 | Stand replacing—low frequency |
Rollins et al. 2001 | SB | 194* | Includes all fire regimes |
Barrett and Arno 1988 | FC | 4 to 41 | Low severity—high frequency |
|  | FC | 40 to 200 | Stand replacing—low frequency |
USDA 2002 | FC | 15 to 84* | Low severity—high frequency |
|  | FC | 35 to 105* | Mixed severity—high frequency |
|  | FC | 75 to 100* | Mixed severity—low frequency |
|  | FC | 150 to 198* | Stand replacing—low frequency |