Hanford Site Post-Fire Vegetation Monitoring Report for Calendar Year 2023
The Hanford Site is comprised of an expanse of shrub-steppe habitats that provide exceptional value to plants and animals located on the Hanford Site and in the surrounding greater Columbia Basin. The greatest threat to this habitat is fire-related conversion to a cheatgrass-dominated monoculture. To decrease future fire risk and to disrupt the positive feedback cycle between cheatgrass and fire, land managers can make efforts to restore native vegetation following a fire. The goal of this report is to summarize fires and fire monitoring efforts that occurred in 2023 and analyze vegetation recovery post-fire in both restored and unrestored areas to inform future post-fire response actions.
- Research Organization:
- Hanford Mission Integration Solutions
- Sponsoring Organization:
- U.S. DOE EM
- DOE Contract Number:
- 89303320DEM000031
- OSTI ID:
- 3013134
- Report Number(s):
- HNF-69972, Rev. 0
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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