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Customize Fuelbed
The Customize fuelbed screen allows users to enter fuelbed descriptions and source information for their custom fuelbeds. Because customized fuelbeds are created by modifying fuelbed prototypes, you must replace the existing description with one that fits your fuelbed. The customize fuelbed screen is divided into a fuelbed description section and a user information section.

Fuelbed Section: The Fuelbed section records the following descriptor variables:

  • Fuelbed name: User-defined name of fuelbed. The FCCS does not require unique names or any particular naming protocol for user fuelbeds.

  • Description: User-defined description of the fuelbed. Descriptions for the FCCS fuelbeds generally include geographic representation, vegetation and disturbance and/or management history.

  • Ecoregion(s): There are 13 Bailey Ecoregion divisions. A map of these divisions is provided in the Search for Fuelbed screen. Site-specific fuelbeds generally only have one ecoregion, whereas modal fuelbeds are likely to span multiple ecoregions.

  • Vegetation form: Most of the seven vegetation forms are self-explanatory, with the exception of the "mixed forest" category. Mixed forests are defined as forests in which evergreen and deciduous species each generally contribute 25 to 75 percent of total tree cover in both the overstory and midstory strata.  

  • Cover Type: Select applicable forest and/or rangeland cover types. Multiple cover types may apply to an individual fuelbed. Change Agent (s): Select from a list of natural or management-induced activities that have altered your fuelbed. Multiple change agents may apply.

  • Structural class: Applies to forested fuelbed only. Select one structural class from a list of seven forest vegetation forms describing the number of canopy layers, relative size of trees, stage of understory development and relative degree of stand closure. Graphical depictions of forest structural classes are provided in the Search for Fuelbed screen.

  • Natural fire regime: Select one of five natural fire regime classifications.

  • Fire Regime Condition Class:  Select one of three qualitative measures describing the degree of departure from historical fire regimes. C1-C3.

  • Data Quality Ranking: The default data quality ranking for user fuelbeds is zero. FCCS fuelbeds contain an overall rating for the quality of the data used for creating the fuelbed.

  • Photo Series ID: This feature is currently not implemented in the FCCS national fuelbeds but can be entered in customized fuelbeds. Photo series ID provides a reference for the particular photo series that were used as source data to create some or all of the custom fuelbed.

User Information Section: The User Info section allows users to record information for their own file management as well as to provide us with contact information if users wish to submit fuelbeds to the FCCS administrator at pnw_fccshelp@fs.fed.us for consideration as additional prototypes. Optional entries include:
  • Date
  • Name
  • Email
  • Phone
  • Affiliation
  • Address
  • Notes
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