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  <fuelbed_number>323</fuelbed_number>
  <fuelbed_name>Quaking aspen/sagebrush boreal woodland</fuelbed_name>
  <fuelbed_description>Open boreal quaking aspen woodland interspersed with grassland and shrubland vegetation dominated by sagebrush species (Alaska wormwood and prairie sagewort), reedgrass, brome and fescue species. This fuelbed typically  occurs on steep, south-facing slopes in the boreal and boreal transition regions of Alaska.</fuelbed_description>
  <ecoregion>130</ecoregion>
  <vegetation_form>5</vegetation_form>
  <structural_class></structural_class>
  <cover_type>124</cover_type>
  <change_agent>18</change_agent>
  <natural_fire_regime>5</natural_fire_regime>
  <condition_class>1</condition_class>
  <user_name></user_name>
  <address></address>
  <affiliation></affiliation>
  <phone></phone>
  <file_owner_email></file_owner_email>
  <notes>Built for EVT 2606. Used FCCS069 and changed species composition and structure based on EVT description and Viereck's open aspen, midgrass-herb, midgrass-shrub, and sagebrush-shrub descriptions. Based NFR on FRCC description of  "Persistent Shrub North" in Alaska.</notes>
  <date_collected>Sep 27, 2010</date_collected>
  <fuelbed_confidence></fuelbed_confidence>
  <fuelbed>
    <canopy>
      <trees>
        <total_percent_cover unit="number" min="0" max="40">30</total_percent_cover>
        <overstory>
          <percent_cover unit="number" min="0" max="40">30</percent_cover>
          <height unit="feet" min="4.5" max="20">15</height>
          <height_to_live_crown unit="feet" min="0" max="10">3</height_to_live_crown>
          <stem_density unit="number_per_acre" min="2" max="70">40</stem_density>
          <diameter_at_breast_height unit="inches" min="1" max="8">3</diameter_at_breast_height>
          <species>
            <species_description>
              <tsn>195773</tsn>
              <relative_cover>100.00</relative_cover>
            </species_description>
          </species>
        </overstory>
        <midstory>
          <percent_cover unit="number"></percent_cover>
          <height unit="feet"></height>
          <height_to_live_crown unit="feet"></height_to_live_crown>
          <stem_density unit="number_per_acre"></stem_density>
          <diameter_at_breast_height unit="inches"></diameter_at_breast_height>
          <species></species>
        </midstory>
        <understory>
          <percent_cover unit="number" min="0" max="20">1</percent_cover>
          <height unit="feet" min="0.5" max="15">5</height>
          <height_to_live_crown unit="feet" min="0" max="10">1</height_to_live_crown>
          <stem_density unit="number_per_acre" min="0" max="400">75</stem_density>
          <diameter_at_breast_height unit="inches" min="0" max="5">0.6</diameter_at_breast_height>
          <species>
            <species_description>
              <tsn>195773</tsn>
              <relative_cover>100.00</relative_cover>
            </species_description>
          </species>
        </understory>
      </trees>
      <snags>
        <class_1_conifers_with_foliage>
          <percent_cover unit="number"></percent_cover>
          <height_to_crown_base unit="feet"></height_to_crown_base>
          <stem_density unit="number_per_acre"></stem_density>
          <diameter unit="inches"></diameter>
          <height unit="feet"></height>
          <species></species>
        </class_1_conifers_with_foliage>
        <class_1_all_others>
          <stem_density unit="number_per_acre"></stem_density>
          <diameter unit="inches"></diameter>
          <height unit="feet"></height>
          <species></species>
        </class_1_all_others>
        <class_2>
          <stem_density unit="number_per_acre"></stem_density>
          <diameter unit="inches"></diameter>
          <height unit="feet"></height>
          <species></species>
        </class_2>
        <class_3>
          <stem_density unit="number_per_acre"></stem_density>
          <diameter unit="inches"></diameter>
          <height unit="feet"></height>
          <species></species>
        </class_3>
      </snags>
      <ladder_fuels>
        <minimum_height unit="feet"></minimum_height>
        <maximum_height unit="feet"></maximum_height>
        <is_vertically_contiguous></is_vertically_contiguous>
        <type></type>
      </ladder_fuels>
    </canopy>
    <shrubs>
      <primary_layer>
        <percent_cover unit="number" min="5" max="80">50</percent_cover>
        <height unit="feet" min="0.5" max="6">1</height>
        <percent_live unit="number" min="40" max="100" reference_id="455">93</percent_live>
        <species>
          <species_description>
            <tsn>35465</tsn>
            <relative_cover>30</relative_cover>
          </species_description>
          <species_description>
            <tsn>35446</tsn>
            <relative_cover>30.00</relative_cover>
          </species_description>
          <species_description>
            <tsn>194820</tsn>
            <relative_cover>20</relative_cover>
          </species_description>
          <species_description>
            <tsn>23530</tsn>
            <relative_cover>20</relative_cover>
          </species_description>
        </species>
      </primary_layer>
      <secondary_layer>
        <percent_cover unit="number"></percent_cover>
        <height unit="feet"></height>
        <percent_live unit="number"></percent_live>
        <species></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="5" max="50">20</percent_cover>
        <height unit="feet" min="0.5" max="2.5" reference_id="455">1</height>
        <loading unit="tons_per_acre" min="0" max="3">0.2</loading>
        <percent_live unit="number" min="35" max="100">90</percent_live>
        <species>
          <species_description>
            <tsn>40480</tsn>
            <relative_cover>35.00</relative_cover>
          </species_description>
          <species_description>
            <tsn>40808</tsn>
            <relative_cover>35.00</relative_cover>
          </species_description>
          <species_description>
            <tsn>40563</tsn>
            <relative_cover>30.00</relative_cover>
          </species_description>
        </species>
      </primary_layer>
      <secondary_layer>
        <percent_cover unit="number"></percent_cover>
        <height unit="feet"></height>
        <loading unit="tons_per_acre"></loading>
        <percent_live unit="number"></percent_live>
        <species></species>
      </secondary_layer>
    </herbaceous>
    <woody_fuel>
      <all_downed_woody_fuel>
        <total_percent_cover unit="number" min="5" max="40">10</total_percent_cover>
        <depth unit="inches" min="0.1" max="3">0.2</depth>
      </all_downed_woody_fuel>
      <sound_wood>
        <all_sound_wood>
          <species>
            <species_description>
              <tsn>195773</tsn>
              <relative_cover>100.00</relative_cover>
            </species_description>
          </species>
        </all_sound_wood>
        <loadings_zero_to_three_inches>
          <zero_to_quarter_inch unit="tons_per_acre" min="0" max="1" reference_id="455">0.2</zero_to_quarter_inch>
          <quarter_inch_to_one_inch unit="tons_per_acre" min="0" max="2" reference_id="455">0.4</quarter_inch_to_one_inch>
          <one_to_three_inches unit="tons_per_acre" min="0" max="2" reference_id="455">0.2</one_to_three_inches>
        </loadings_zero_to_three_inches>
        <loadings_greater_than_three_inches>
          <three_to_nine_inches unit="tons_per_acre" min="0" max="1">0.1</three_to_nine_inches>
          <nine_to_twenty_inches unit="tons_per_acre" min="0" max="0">0</nine_to_twenty_inches>
          <greater_than_twenty_inches unit="tons_per_acre" min="0" max="0" reference_id="455">0</greater_than_twenty_inches>
        </loadings_greater_than_three_inches>
      </sound_wood>
      <rotten_wood>
        <all_rotten_wood>
          <species></species>
        </all_rotten_wood>
        <loadings_greater_than_three_inches>
          <three_to_nine_inches unit="tons_per_acre"></three_to_nine_inches>
          <nine_to_twenty_inches unit="tons_per_acre"></nine_to_twenty_inches>
          <greater_than_twenty_inches unit="tons_per_acre"></greater_than_twenty_inches>
        </loadings_greater_than_three_inches>
      </rotten_wood>
      <stumps>
        <sound>
          <stem_density unit="number_per_acre"></stem_density>
          <diameter unit="inches"></diameter>
          <height unit="feet"></height>
          <species></species>
        </sound>
        <rotten>
          <stem_density unit="number_per_acre"></stem_density>
          <diameter unit="inches"></diameter>
          <height unit="feet"></height>
          <species></species>
        </rotten>
        <lightered_pitchy>
          <stem_density unit="number_per_acre"></stem_density>
          <diameter unit="inches"></diameter>
          <height unit="feet"></height>
          <species></species>
        </lightered_pitchy>
      </stumps>
    </woody_fuel>
    <moss_lichen_litter>
      <moss>
        <type></type>
        <percent_cover unit="number"></percent_cover>
        <depth unit="inches"></depth>
      </moss>
      <ground_lichen>
        <percent_cover unit="number"></percent_cover>
        <depth unit="inches"></depth>
      </ground_lichen>
      <litter>
        <percent_cover unit="number" min="5" max="50">10</percent_cover>
        <depth unit="inches" min="0.1" max="2">0.2</depth>
        <arrangement>1</arrangement>
        <litter_type>
          <short_needle_pine>
            <relative_cover></relative_cover>
          </short_needle_pine>
          <long_needle_pine>
            <relative_cover></relative_cover>
          </long_needle_pine>
          <other_conifer>
            <relative_cover></relative_cover>
          </other_conifer>
          <broadleaf_deciduous>
            <relative_cover>80.0</relative_cover>
          </broadleaf_deciduous>
          <broadleaf_evergreen>
            <relative_cover></relative_cover>
          </broadleaf_evergreen>
          <palm_frond>
            <relative_cover></relative_cover>
          </palm_frond>
          <grass>
            <relative_cover>20.0</relative_cover>
          </grass>
        </litter_type>
      </litter>
    </moss_lichen_litter>
    <ground_fuel>
      <duff>
        <upper>
          <depth unit="inches" min="0.1" max="1">0.1</depth>
          <percent_cover unit="number" min="5" max="50">10</percent_cover>
          <derivation>1</derivation>
        </upper>
        <lower>
          <depth unit="inches" min="0" max="0.5"></depth>
          <percent_cover unit="number" min="0" max="40"></percent_cover>
          <derivation></derivation>
          <loading unit="tons_per_acre"></loading>
        </lower>
      </duff>
      <squirrel_middens>
        <depth unit="inches"></depth>
        <radius unit="feet"></radius>
        <number_per_unit_area unit="number_per_acre"></number_per_unit_area>
      </squirrel_middens>
      <basal_accumulation>
        <depth unit="inches"></depth>
        <radius unit="feet"></radius>
        <number_per_unit_area unit="number_per_acre"></number_per_unit_area>
        <type></type>
      </basal_accumulation>
    </ground_fuel>
  </fuelbed>
</FCCS_file>