<FCCS_file xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" schemaVersion="1.4" xsi:schemaLocation="/conf/\us.fed.fs.fera.fccs.xsd">
  <fuelbed_number>301</fuelbed_number>
  <fuelbed_name>Fremont cottonwood-California sycamore forest</fuelbed_name>
  <fuelbed_description>This California Central Valley riparian woodland or shrubland occurs on small to mid-sized rivers and is maintained by periodic flooding and sediment scouring which maintains the vegetation. Several invasive species, including Tamarix spp., Ailanthus altissima, and Arundo donax, can be problematic.</fuelbed_description>
  <ecoregion>260</ecoregion>
  <vegetation_form>1</vegetation_form>
  <structural_class>7</structural_class>
  <cover_type>13</cover_type>
  <change_agent>24</change_agent>
  <natural_fire_regime/>
  <condition_class/>
  <user_name>Roger Ottmar/Anne Andreu</user_name>
  <address/>
  <affiliation>USDA Forest Service</affiliation>
  <phone/>
  <file_owner_email/>
  <notes> Change Carex spp. to C. barbarae. Add Salix gooddingii to canopy midstory layer.
Used California Central Valley riparian woodland and shrubland ecological system (from NatureServe website) for the canopy, shrub and nonwoody composition. Heights were estimated from the USDA Plants Database website. Used CDO 07 from photo series volume VII for tree density and dbh, woody, litter, duff. </notes>
  <date_collected>Aug 22, 2012</date_collected>
  <fuelbed_confidence/>
  <fuelbed>
    <canopy>
      <trees>
        <total_percent_cover unit="number" min="20" max="60">50</total_percent_cover>
        <overstory>
          <percent_cover unit="number" min="20" max="60">40</percent_cover>
          <height unit="feet" min="35" max="80">55</height>
          <height_to_live_crown unit="feet" min="-3" max="-3">13</height_to_live_crown>
          <stem_density unit="number_per_acre" min="-3" max="-3">22</stem_density>
          <diameter_at_breast_height unit="inches" min="-3" max="-3">21.3</diameter_at_breast_height>
          <species>
            <species_description>
              <tsn>22459</tsn>
              <relative_cover>40</relative_cover>
            </species_description>
            <species_description>
              <tsn>19022</tsn>
              <relative_cover>30</relative_cover>
            </species_description>
            <species_description>
              <tsn>19370</tsn>
              <relative_cover>30</relative_cover>
            </species_description>
          </species>
        </overstory>
        <midstory>
          <percent_cover unit="number" min="-3" max="-3">20</percent_cover>
          <height unit="feet" min="20" max="55">35</height>
          <height_to_live_crown unit="feet" min="-3" max="-3">3</height_to_live_crown>
          <stem_density unit="number_per_acre" min="-3" max="-3">7</stem_density>
          <diameter_at_breast_height unit="inches" min="-3" max="-3">5.1</diameter_at_breast_height>
          <species>
            <species_description>
              <tsn>28749</tsn>
              <relative_cover>35</relative_cover>
            </species_description>
            <species_description>
              <tsn>19249</tsn>
              <relative_cover>30</relative_cover>
            </species_description>
            <species_description>
              <tsn>22459</tsn>
              <relative_cover>35</relative_cover>
            </species_description>
          </species>
        </midstory>
        <understory>
          <percent_cover unit="number"/>
          <height unit="feet"/>
          <height_to_live_crown unit="feet"/>
          <stem_density unit="number_per_acre"/>
          <diameter_at_breast_height unit="inches"/>
          <species/>
        </understory>
      </trees>
      <snags>
        <class_1_conifers_with_foliage>
          <percent_cover unit="number"/>
          <height_to_crown_base unit="feet"/>
          <stem_density unit="number_per_acre"/>
          <diameter unit="inches"/>
          <height unit="feet"/>
          <species/>
        </class_1_conifers_with_foliage>
        <class_1_all_others>
          <stem_density unit="number_per_acre"/>
          <diameter unit="inches"/>
          <height unit="feet"/>
          <species/>
        </class_1_all_others>
        <class_2>
          <stem_density unit="number_per_acre"/>
          <diameter unit="inches"/>
          <height unit="feet"/>
          <species/>
        </class_2>
        <class_3>
          <stem_density unit="number_per_acre"/>
          <diameter unit="inches"/>
          <height unit="feet"/>
          <species/>
        </class_3>
      </snags>
      <ladder_fuels>
        <minimum_height unit="feet"/>
        <maximum_height unit="feet"/>
        <is_vertically_contiguous/>
        <type/>
      </ladder_fuels>
    </canopy>
    <shrubs>
      <primary_layer>
        <percent_cover unit="number" min="-3" max="-3">20</percent_cover>
        <height unit="feet" min="3" max="15">8</height>
        <percent_live unit="number" min="-3" max="-3">50</percent_live>
        <species>
          <species_description>
            <tsn>34786</tsn>
            <relative_cover>85</relative_cover>
          </species_description>
          <species_description>
            <tsn>28614</tsn>
            <relative_cover>15</relative_cover>
          </species_description>
        </species>
      </primary_layer>
      <secondary_layer>
        <percent_cover unit="number"/>
        <height unit="feet"/>
        <percent_live unit="number"/>
        <species/>
      </secondary_layer>
      <needle_drape>
        <is_sufficient_to_affect_fire_behavior>0</is_sufficient_to_affect_fire_behavior>
      </needle_drape>
    </shrubs>
    <herbaceous>
      <primary_layer>
        <percent_cover unit="number" min="-3" max="-3">80</percent_cover>
        <height unit="feet" min="3" max="7">2</height>
        <loading unit="tons_per_acre" min="-3" max="-3">0.2</loading>
        <percent_live unit="number" min="-3" max="-3">90</percent_live>
        <species>
          <species_description>
            <tsn>39369</tsn>
            <relative_cover>40</relative_cover>
          </species_description>
          <species_description>
            <tsn>508142</tsn>
            <relative_cover>30</relative_cover>
          </species_description>
          <species_description>
            <tsn>35460</tsn>
            <relative_cover>30</relative_cover>
          </species_description>
        </species>
      </primary_layer>
      <secondary_layer>
        <percent_cover unit="number"/>
        <height unit="feet"/>
        <loading unit="tons_per_acre"/>
        <percent_live unit="number"/>
        <species/>
      </secondary_layer>
    </herbaceous>
    <woody_fuel>
      <all_downed_woody_fuel>
        <total_percent_cover unit="number" min="-3" max="-3">5</total_percent_cover>
        <depth unit="inches" min="-3" max="-3">0.02</depth>
      </all_downed_woody_fuel>
      <sound_wood>
        <all_sound_wood>
          <species>
            <species_description>
              <tsn>22459</tsn>
              <relative_cover>70</relative_cover>
            </species_description>
            <species_description>
              <tsn>19370</tsn>
              <relative_cover>30</relative_cover>
            </species_description>
          </species>
        </all_sound_wood>
        <loadings_zero_to_three_inches>
          <zero_to_quarter_inch unit="tons_per_acre" min="-3" max="-3">0.2</zero_to_quarter_inch>
          <quarter_inch_to_one_inch unit="tons_per_acre" min="-3" max="-3">0.3</quarter_inch_to_one_inch>
          <one_to_three_inches unit="tons_per_acre" min="-3" max="-3">0.1</one_to_three_inches>
        </loadings_zero_to_three_inches>
        <loadings_greater_than_three_inches>
          <three_to_nine_inches unit="tons_per_acre">0</three_to_nine_inches>
          <nine_to_twenty_inches unit="tons_per_acre">0</nine_to_twenty_inches>
          <greater_than_twenty_inches unit="tons_per_acre">0</greater_than_twenty_inches>
        </loadings_greater_than_three_inches>
      </sound_wood>
      <rotten_wood>
        <all_rotten_wood>
          <species>
            <species_description>
              <tsn>22459</tsn>
              <relative_cover>70</relative_cover>
            </species_description>
            <species_description>
              <tsn>19370</tsn>
              <relative_cover>30</relative_cover>
            </species_description>
          </species>
        </all_rotten_wood>
        <loadings_greater_than_three_inches>
          <three_to_nine_inches unit="tons_per_acre" min="-3" max="-3">0.1</three_to_nine_inches>
          <nine_to_twenty_inches unit="tons_per_acre" min="-3" max="-3">0</nine_to_twenty_inches>
          <greater_than_twenty_inches unit="tons_per_acre" min="-3" max="-3">0</greater_than_twenty_inches>
        </loadings_greater_than_three_inches>
      </rotten_wood>
      <stumps>
        <sound>
          <stem_density unit="number_per_acre"/>
          <diameter unit="inches"/>
          <height unit="feet"/>
          <species/>
        </sound>
        <rotten>
          <stem_density unit="number_per_acre"/>
          <diameter unit="inches"/>
          <height unit="feet"/>
          <species/>
        </rotten>
        <lightered_pitchy>
          <stem_density unit="number_per_acre"/>
          <diameter unit="inches"/>
          <height unit="feet"/>
          <species/>
        </lightered_pitchy>
      </stumps>
    </woody_fuel>
    <moss_lichen_litter>
      <moss>
        <type/>
        <percent_cover unit="number"/>
        <depth unit="inches"/>
      </moss>
      <ground_lichen>
        <percent_cover unit="number"/>
        <depth unit="inches"/>
      </ground_lichen>
      <litter>
        <percent_cover unit="number" min="-3" max="-3">55</percent_cover>
        <depth unit="inches" min="-3" max="-3">0.7</depth>
        <arrangement>1</arrangement>
        <litter_type>
          <short_needle_pine>
            <relative_cover/>
          </short_needle_pine>
          <long_needle_pine>
            <relative_cover/>
          </long_needle_pine>
          <other_conifer>
            <relative_cover/>
          </other_conifer>
          <broadleaf_deciduous>
            <relative_cover>100.0</relative_cover>
          </broadleaf_deciduous>
          <broadleaf_evergreen>
            <relative_cover/>
          </broadleaf_evergreen>
          <palm_frond>
            <relative_cover/>
          </palm_frond>
          <grass>
            <relative_cover/>
          </grass>
        </litter_type>
      </litter>
    </moss_lichen_litter>
    <ground_fuel>
      <duff>
        <upper>
          <depth unit="inches" min="-3" max="-3">0.5</depth>
          <percent_cover unit="number" min="-3" max="-3">50</percent_cover>
          <derivation>1</derivation>
        </upper>
        <lower>
          <depth unit="inches"/>
          <percent_cover unit="number"/>
          <derivation/>
        </lower>
      </duff>
      <squirrel_middens>
        <depth unit="inches"/>
        <radius unit="feet"/>
        <number_per_unit_area unit="number_per_acre"/>
      </squirrel_middens>
      <basal_accumulation>
        <depth unit="inches"/>
        <radius unit="feet"/>
        <number_per_unit_area unit="number_per_acre"/>
        <type/>
      </basal_accumulation>
    </ground_fuel>
  </fuelbed>
</FCCS_file>