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Wedge Canyon Fire


Burned Area Reflectance Classification (BARC) map provided by the USFS Remote Sensing Applications Center (RSAC).










Start Time:

July 18, 2003 at 1:25pm

Start Location:

42 Miles N. of Columbia Falls, MT & 6 miles S. of international border

When Sampled:

Immediate Post-burn: Mid Oct., 2003
Re-sample: Mid August 2004

Area Vegetation:

Mixed conifer forest of Larix occidentalisAbies lasiocarpa, Pinus contorta, and Picea engelmannii with understories of Vaccinium spp. and Xerophyllum tenax.

Hectares Burned:

21,519

Flathead National Forest
http://www.fs.fed.us/rm/ogden/pubs/pdfs/flathead.pdf

Incident
http://www.fs.fed.us/nwacfire/wedge/index.htm         

IR Perimeter Map
http://www.fs.fed.us/nwacfire/wedge/maps/wedge-canyon/wedge-ir-  091003.pdf

Progression map
http://www.fs.fed.us/nwacfire/wedge/maps/wedge-canyon/wedge-progression-090503.pdf



 

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