Fuel Characteristic Classification System – Demonstration -

Cynthia L. Riccardi

Pacific Wildland Fire Sciences LabSeattle, WA

Fuelbed Selection Screen- Orientation -

Fuelbed Selection Screen- What’s here -Selection

criteria

Fuelbed window

Selecting a fuelbed

Moving forward

Help

Intro text

Description WindowVersion

Fuelbed Selection Screen- Selecting a fuelbed -

Chose at least an Ecoregion & Veg form

Press here

Fuelbed Selection Screen- Selecting a fuelbed -

Douglas fir – Pacific Ponderosa pine/ Oceanspray forest (fire Exclusion)

Fuelbed description

Fuelbed Organization• 6 Strata divided into categories and subcategories:

• Canopy

• Nonwoody

• Woody

• Litter Lichen Moss

• Ground fuels

• Shrubs

Trees Snags Ladder fuels

Primary

SoundAll Woody

Secondary

Primary Secondary

Rotten Stumps Woody FuelAccumulations

(WFA)

Litter Lichen Moss

Duff Squirrel Middens Basal accumulations

Stratum tabs

Stratum & Category description

•Remember tool tips•And Help

Fuelbed Stratum Screens- Canopy: Trees –

Overstory, Midstory, Understory

Stratum description

Mode, Minimum, Maximum

Category data (varies)

Species information

Species name toolReturn to selection screen Save fuelbed

Exit

Trees

Fuelbed Stratum Screens- Canopy: Trees –

Species

Add

Delete

Clear

Fuelbed Stratum Screens- Canopy: Trees –Species – Name tool

Fuelbed Stratum Screens- Canopy: Snags –

Class 1, Class 2, Class 3Stratum

Category

Subcategory

Snags

Fuelbed Stratum Screens- Canopy: Ladder fuels –

Optional refinement used in FCCS Potentials

Ladder fuel options

Ladder fuels

Fuelbed Stratum Screens- Shrubs & Nonwoody –

Species information

Species name tool

Optional refinement

Stratum description

Fuelbed Stratum Screens- Woody –

All, Sound, Rotten, Stumps, WFA

All Woody

Sound

Size classes

- 0 - 3 inches

- > 3 inches

Fuelbed Stratum Screens- Woody –

All, Sound, Rotten, Stumps, WFA

Stumps

- Sound

- Rotten

- Lightered pitchy

Fuelbed Stratum Screens- Woody –

All, Sound, Rotten, Stumps, WFA

Woody FuelAccumulations

(WFA)

- Piles

- Jackpots

- Windrows

Fuelbed Stratum Screens- Litter Lichen Moss –

Litter Lichen Moss

Litter arrangement &

litter type refinements

Moss type

Fuelbed Stratum Screens- Ground fuels –

Duff, Squirrel middens, Basal accumulations

Duff

Derivation: Parent material

Fuelbed Stratum Screens- Ground fuels –

Duff, Squirrel middens, Basal accumulations

Squirrel Middens

Basal accumulations

Customize fuelbed

Selection criteria

Data quality rating

Site name

Description

Customize fuelbed

User information www.fs.fed.us/pnw/fera/fccs

pnw_fccshelp@fs.fed.us

FCCS Reports

FCCS ReportsReport types

Report header

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Format Output

• Potential

• General

• Strata & Categories

• Combustion

• Input

FCCS Reports- Types -

FCCS Reports- Printing -

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