Estimating erosion impacts from implementing the National Fire Plan

Elliot, W.J.; Miller, I.S. 2002. Estimating Erosion Impacts from Implementing the National Fire Plan. 2002 ASAE annual international meeting/CIGR XVth world congress. July 28-31, 2002, Chicago, IL ASAE meeting paper no. 02-5011. St. Joseph, MI: ASAE.

Keywords: Soil Erosion, WEPP, Forest Fires, Rangelands, Fuel Management

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Abstract: The WEPP model was used to compare erosion rates from fuel management operations, including roads, to erosion following wildfire, the inevitable disturbance in the absence of fuel management, for climates across the western U.S. The results show that erosion from fuel management operations, including thinning and prescribed fire, are less than from wildfire, even when road erosion rates are included.

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