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Fire Ecology

Table 2 Mean and maximum area (ha) of “megafires” within the ranges of three subspecies of spotted owls between 1 January 2000 and 31 December 2014, and mean and maximum area burned at high severitya.

From: Conflicting Perspectives on Spotted Owls, Wildfire, and Forest Restoration

  

Fire area (ha)

High severity area (ha)

Subspecies

n

Mean

Max

Mean

Max

California

37

33 230

108 599

9322

71 605

Mexican

33

44 823

228 103

5730

68 408

Northern

35

25 537

200 442

5408

58 478

  1. a Data from Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (USGS MTBS Project 2016). Only wildfires >10 000 ha (Stephens et al. 2014 b) on US Forest Service lands were included.
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