Wildland fire is a natural disturbance and an important driver of ecological change. With the development of State and Transition Models, post-fire vegetation response was documented on several ecological sites in five Major Land Resource Areas in Nevada. An expert team of rangeland scientists, soil scientists, wildlife biologists and fuels specialists with many years of experience working in Nevada examined and documented ecological site properties on wildfire and prescribed fire areas. Post-fire vegetation response is dependent on ecological site characteristics, pre-fire vegetation conditions, as well as post-fire climatic conditions and management decisions. Different ecological sites were found to exhibit varying levels of resiliency as were different states within the same ecological site. Understanding differences in resiliency is important in developing post-fire management scenarios.
Oral presentation and poster titles, abstracts, and authors from the Society for Range Management (SRM) Annual Meetings and Tradeshows, from 2013 forward.