Fire Severity on the Rocky Mountain Ranger District, Biggs Flat Fire
Go BackThe Biggs Flat fire burned almost entirely within the bourndary of the 1988 Gates Park fire. The Center used multi-temporal 3-D image of Biggs Flat burn satellite images combined with field plot work to examine fire effects in re-burn areas of the Bob Marshall
Wilderness Complex. In studying these unique, short-return period "nested" fires, we can begin to differentiate the effects fire return interval may have on current forest structure. The results of these studies will be used to assess how multiple prescribed fires or continued "nested" events may help restore ecosystems more adapted to higher frequency, lower intensity fires.
Principal Investigator: Jim Riddering
Project Staff: Steve Brown, Don Helmbrecht, Josh Rodriguez, Eric Tangedahl,
Partners: Lewis and Clark National Forest, Rocky Mountain Ranger District
