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Sanford Fire 2002 Map Timeline Acres Burned - Burn Intensity Map Summary Sanford Fire Summary (177k PDF file) Deep Creek Series Deep Creek 1 Flood Adds to Impact Flood 100-year Event Flood Destroys Fishery Deep Creek Monitored Plants Renewed by Fire Deep Creek 2 Deep Creek Drainage Burned Erosion Shapes Land Bonneville Cutthroats Recovered Deep Creek 3 Flood Alters Channel Monitoring Provides Data Fire Management Tool Deep Creek 4 Emergency Rehab Needed BAER Team Responds Log Barriers Placed Deep Creek 5 Prescribed Fire Shapes Land Fires Create Mosaics Pinyon-Juniper Expanding Pine Creek Series Pine Creek 1 2002 Fire Season Severe Aspen Resprouting Mountain Mahogany Important Two Prescribed Fires Planned Pine Creek 2 Riparian Areas Intact Following Fire Aspen Resilient Mountain Mahogany Burned Long-term Monitoring Necessary Pine Creek 3 Air Quality of Concern to Area Residents Plant Succession Influenced by Fire Sagebrush Valuable Smoke Continuing Problem Jones Corral Project Fire Stimulates Aspen Regrowth Snags and Logs Valuable Burned Areas Sensitive Mt. Dutton Fire Tour Offered Sanford Fire Summarized Sanford Fire Summary (177k PDF file) Aspen/Conifer Burn Aspen Important Forage Aspen Dependent on Fire Lupine Sprouts Following Fire Aspen Burn Half of Sanford Unburned Fire Severity Determined Aspen Important to Watershed Beetle Infested Burn Mixed Conifer Increasing Mistletoe Invades Area Ladder Fuels Feed Fire Beetles Kill Trees West Fork Hunt Creek Aspen Burn Roads Susceptible to Erosion Steep Slopes Highly Erosive Mountain Mahogany Fire Creates Habitat Animal Populations Fluctuate Bristlecone Pine Long-lived Mixed Conifer Burn Fire Part of Mixed Conifer Forest Mixed Conifer Increasing Ponderosa Fire Resistant West Fork Hunt Creek Fish Killed in East Fork Upper Sevier Vegetation Protects Watershed Flood Plains Valuable Cottonwoods Useful West Fork Hunt Creek Overlook Roads Useful During Fire Microbiotic Crusts Overlooked Previous Prescribed Burn Grasses/Forbs Lacking Soils Stabilized by Rabbitbrush Mammoth Thinning Thinning Reduces Fuel Loads Thinning Reduces Ground Fuels Urban Interface Areas a Concern Rock Canyon 1 Thinning Mistletoe Reduces Timber and Scenic Values Mistletoe Spreads Quickly Mistletoe Spread Halted Rock Canyon 2 Thinning Parasites Increasing Thinning Removes Mistletoe Thinning Cost Effective