EEL FIRE MANAGEMENT MANUAL -- Prepared by The Nature Conservancy
  
 
TABLE OF CONTENTS
  
 
Natural Community- Cypress Dome (Stage 1)
  
     
  FUEL MODEL: Fuel Model 2 is best fit for modeling fire behavior of this stage.  Fine surface fuels, typically volatile grasses, dominate the fuel matrix of this model (Anderson, 1982).

TYPICAL FIRE BEHAVIOR: [Using FBPS: FM 2, FFM 8, LFM 100, MFW 5 - 10] (Refer to page 32)		  
   
 

DESIRED STAGE: This single stage community is in the condition at which cypress dome communities are to be maintained.

RESTORATION/MANAGEMENT PROTOCOL

  • Restoration Phase:
  • Fuel reduction dormant season fire to eliminate potential for excessive scorching of cypress overstory.
  • Maintenance/Management Phase:
  1. Avoid any soil disturbing activities or treatments that trench wetland soils and lead to enhanced drainage.
  1. Growing to mixed-season prescribed fires.  Moisture conditions allowing fire spread through surface fuels but that avoid ground or soil fuel combustion are desired.
  • Special Management Concerns:
  • Soil disturbance as avenue for  exotics and increased drainage.
  • Avoid hydrologic/topographic alteration such as ditching and fire-plow scars.

EEL SITES WHERE CYPRESS DOME COMMUNITY OCCURS
  • Micco Scrub Sanctuary
  • Jordan Scrub Sanctuary
  • Buck Lake Conservation Area

 
 
General Fire Effects & Management Considerations

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