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Photos
(Photos by Eric Knapp)
photos of the Sequoia-Kings Canyon fire treatment program. |
 Applying fire with a drip torch |
 Prescribed fire burning through dense multi-aged old-growth forest (Unit 5, Oct. 17, 2001). |
 Prescribed fire consuming heavy surface fuels (Unit 5, Oct. 17, 2001). |
 Low intensity surface fire on an area with little slope in Unit 3 (June 27, 2002). |
 Moderate intensity surface fire on a steep slope in Unit 4 (June 27, 2002). |
 Fire backing slowly down-slope (Unit 5, Oct. 17, 2001). |
 View from the south fire line, Oct. 17, 2001. |
 USGS crew evaluating forest thinning one year after a late-season burn (Unit 5). |
 Area of low to moderate fire severity one year after a late season burn (Unit 5). |
 Patchiness in fuel consumption after an early-season prescribed fire (Unit 3, burned June 27, 2002). Surface fuels at the time of ignition were still relatively high in moisture content. |
 First-year manzanita (Arctostaphylos patula) seedlings. Seeds of this species are stimulated to germinate by fire. |
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