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Table 3 Cumulative area burned and area burned at high severity (ha) in “megafires” within the ranges of three subspecies of spotted owls, between 1 January 2000 and 31 December 2014a.

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

Subspecies

Megafire (n)

Area burned (ha)

High severity area (ha)

California

37

1 209475

340 696

Mexican

33

1 479 175

189 101

Northern

35

878868

193 522

  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.