Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center
| Table 1. A review of the fuel models used in BEHAVE (Andrew 1986) and related research. | |||||||
| Fuel model | Typical complex | Fuel loading (ton/ac) | Fuel bed depth (ft) | Pertinent studies | |||
| 1 hr | 10 hr | 100 hr | Live | ||||
| Grass and grass-dominated | |||||||
| 1 | Short (1 ft) grass | 0.74 | 1.0 | This study | |||
| 2 | Timber | 2.00 | 1.00 | 0.50 | 0.50 | 1.0 | This study |
| 3 | Tall (>2.5 ft) grass | 3.01 | 2.5 | This study | |||
| Chapparral and shrub fields | |||||||
| 4 | Chapparral (6 ft) | 5.01 | 4.01 | 2.00 | 5.01 | 6.0 | |
| 5 | Brush (2 ft) | 1.00 | 0.50 | 2.00 | 2.0 | ||
| 6 | Dormant brush, hardwood slash | 1.50 | 2.50 | 2.00 | 2.5 | ||
| 7 | Southern rough | 1.13 | 1.87 | 1.50 | 0.37 | 2.5 | Hough and Albini 1978 |
| Timber litter | |||||||
| 8 | Closed timber litter | 1.50 | 1.00 | 2.50 | .2 | ||
| 9 | Hardwood litter | 2.92 | 0.41 | 0.15 | .2 | This study | |
| 10 | Timber (litter and understory) | 3.01 | 2.00 | 5.01 | 2.00 | 1.0 | |
| Slash | |||||||
| 11 | Light logging slash | 1.50 | 4.51 | 5.51 | 1.0 | ||
| 12 | Medium logging slash | 4.01 | 14.03 | 16.53 | 2.3 | ||
| 13 | Heavy logging slash | 7.01 | 23.04 | 28.05 | 3.0 | ||
| This study | |||||||
| Missouri oak savannas | 3.21 | 0.40 | 1.24 | Included for comparisons (Grabner et al. 1997) |
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U.S. Department of the Interior |
U.S. Geological Survey
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