Vegetation, fuels, and fire weather data from post-fire landscapes on the Plumas and Lassen National Forests

This data publication contains tree, fuels, and vegetation, and ground cover measurements from a permanent grid of common stand exam plots established following four fires that occurred between 2000 and 2010 on the Plumas and Lassen National Forests in northern California. Data were collected between 2009 and 2012. Portions of these four fires were reburned by the 30,000 hectare Chips Fire in 2012, which burned 118 of the previously established field plots. Data describing plot locations, fire history, and year of data collection is included. Fire weather data collected during the 2012 Chips Fire by three portable Remote Automated Weather Stations are also provided.
These data were collected as part of a large inventory and monitoring effort conducted to assess post-fire conditions after the 2000 Storrie Fire and the 2008 Rich Fire on the Plumas and Lassen National Forests. After a portion of the plots were reburned by the 2012 Chips Fire, the data were used in an analysis investigating the effect of vegetation, fuels, topography, fire weather, and forest management on reburn severity. The purpose was to identify characteristics that land managers could target to influence the potential severity and frequency of subsequent fires to create more fire resilient forest landscapes.
Original metadata date was 10/14/2015. An additional variable (tree_count) was added to the tree data file on 10/27/2015. On 05/06/2016 the Cross References were updated to include information for the new publication associated with these data (Coppoletta et al. 2016). Minor metadata updates on 12/15/2016.